Hoping for customers, Ahmad Nassar is dusting and polishing the trinkets and souvenirs in his tourist shop in Madaba, an ancient town in central Jordan known for its early Christian mosaics. The coronavirus pandemic has been a disaster for Jordan's tourism industry and for its economy as a whole, which suffered its worst contraction in decades last year. "I felt despair, there was no income, no work, there was no support for shop owners," Nassar said. Tourists walk along the Siq in the ancient city of Petra, Jordan July 2, 2021. REUTERS/Muath Freij Now foreign tourists are starting to trickle back, and the situation is looking more hopeful, he said. The European Union last week included Jordan among a dozen new epidemiologically safe countries as of July 1, and government e...
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