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FIGURE 16.16
The dilapidated ruins of an Ottoman village near the famous tourist desti-
nation of Petra (this is what Dana Village looked like a decade ago).
Taybet Zaman is a luxury, five-star tourist “hotel” that was actually a dilapidated
Ottoman-period village (Figure 16.16) that had been sold to a Jordanian tourist com-
pany and whose one-time residents were paid to relocate into new dwellings located
nearby (Teller 1998). Former small cottage-homes have now been renovated, and the
old village transformed into an assemblage of self-contained accommodation suites,
restaurants, Turkish baths, and shops that are decorated with traditional furniture
and overlook the Petra Mountains. A large, corridored hotel has been replaced by
an open-air tourist village with cobbled streets and the atmosphere of a nineteenth-
century Jordanian town (Figure 16.17). Concepts of such innovative tourist accom-
modation based on regeneration that began with the RSCN's demonstrable success
with the Dana Nature Reserve have therefore infiltrated and influenced the private
tourism industry in Jordan and could be adapted to southern Iraq in relation to the
remarkable ecological and archaeological heritage of the marshlands located there.
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