Syria and Jordan for boosting tourism relations

Jordan's minister of transport Nader Zahabi opened on Sunday the locomotive tourist "Saloon" in order to encourage tourism between Syria and Jordan.

The saloon will improve transport means between the two states and will make travel more comfortable, the director general of Jordan railway establishment said.

He added that there are three daily trips from Amman to Damascus.

"Tthe new Saloon can include 50 passengers and be used for internal and external trips" he concluded.