For lower hotel prices and fewer tour groups, the best time to visit Petra is in summer, between June and August. However, ...

In 2023, Visit Petra recorded 1.1 million visitors to Jordan’s most popular archaeological site; that dropped to 457,000 in 2024. I don’t need statistics to feel the downturn during my two ...

Yes, it's Jordan! Tourism is a business of peace that unites even Republicans and Democrats. Luckily, these two members of ...

Caitlin Redden, from Phillipsburg, New Jersey, was visiting Petra, Jordan when she was invited to stay with a nomadic desert tribe for a day — and nearly triggered a missing person’s search.

For many tourists, the visit to the ancient city in southwest Jordan ends here. But Petra has much more to offer, including more than 600 stone facades and an intriguing list of clues about its ...

Chairman of the Petra Development and Tourism Region Authority (PDTRA) Fares Breizat on Friday received a delegation of US Senate and House of Representatives staff and committees working on bilateral ...

The Jordan Tourism Board (JTB) has welcomed an official delegation from Malaysia’s Bumitra Association of travel agencies, as ...

PETRA, Jordan, April 23, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Rally Jameel, the first women-only navigational rally in the Middle East, officially kicked off in the iconic city of Petra, Jordan, marking the ...

The main trail to the Treasury – the rock-hewn tomb hand-carved by the Nabataen civilisation millennia ago – is eerily quiet. Rounding the last bend of Petra’s twisting sandstone canyons, I count no ...