Israel and Jordan have signed a tourism agreement, the first accord to regulate bilateral ties under the Oct. 26 peace treaty.
Israeli Tourism Minister Uzi Baram and his Jordanian counterpart, Abdallah Al- Khatib, signed the accord Tuesday at a ceremony in a state guest house on the Jordanian side of the Jordan Valley.
The accord calls for board coordination, including the marketing of joint travel packages abroad, an exchange of information and the cooperation between the two national airlines, officials said.
Baram said joint tour packages have already been sold in the United States and Europe.
The agreement is the first in a series covering a number of areas — including trade, security and energy — to be signed by August.
Al-Khatib said Jordan is still apprenhensive about an onslaught of Israeli tourists, and does not yet plan to lift the quota that limits to 900 the number of Israelis allowed in daily.
Israeli tour operators have threatened to boycott the Hashemite kingdom if the restrictions are not lifted.
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