Jordan Heritage, JH, an experienced heritage, youth empowerment, digitization and tourism non-profit company proposes to upskill, mentor, and empower Jordanian youth to catch up with the global trends of heritage preservation, heritage tourism and tourism digitization.

Jordan Heritage has been founded in July 2014 by a group of young people passionate about preserving and sustaining heritage, and gradually grew to include more people with the same passion in its family. Today, it has reached hundreds of volunteers, friends, many contributors, and thousands of followers on social media.

Jordan Heritage aims to search for the historical, social, cultural and aesthetic meaning and values in the Jordanian past and communicate it to the largest possible number of Jordanians, so that they relate to it and thus preserve it. of keeping pace with global trends in heritage tourism and digitizing tourism before rolling out their tailored initiatives for commercial sustainability in heritage festivals and digital tourism platforms.

In less than eight years, Jordan Heritage succeeded in documenting and marketing the Jordanian heritage in interactive ways and transforming it into tourism experiences that include the involvement of local communities, through the implementation of many projects that included the production of documentaries, the implementation of lectures, field training, and the documentation of the Jordanian time line since ancient historical times through more than From 700 research articles on our website, along with historical photo exhibitions, building virtual reality models for Jordanian heritage sites, launching more than 12 tourist experiences based on the sustainability of cultural heritage in various Jordanian governorates, and opening the first authentic Jordanian food restaurant in its two branches in both the capital Amman and the city of Salt In addition to establishing the first virtual reality museum and more projects across the Kingdo.

Jordan Heritage’s logo, Jordanian cities as lit from the sky

Since its inception in 2014, Jordan Heritage has dedicated itself as a bridge between the value in the past and the current needs of the present, the youth and the technology they aspire and look forward to be experiencing, as well as being a bridge between the relatively more abundant development in the capital and the rest of Jordan. Throughout the years, Jordan Heritage has conducted dozens of internships, workshops, trainings, galleries and exhibition in 50 out of the 52 districts in Jordan.

Further to having this vast hands-on experience spread across the kingdom, along with the solid heritage research covering the vast majority of Jordanian history, Jordan Heritage has embarked on creating and facilitating better quality and faster spread of this heritage amongst youth and covering the majority of the Jordanian geography. As such, Jordan Heritage was the first and only institute that has invested and yielded two years of youth empowerment in the city of Salt, where the youth were struggling with extremist thought, unemployment and some criminal environment. The selected youth were trained to be ushers, to have heritage experiences, to form folkloric bands, and then were linked to the digital tourism platforms such as AirBnB, TripAdvisor…etc. yielding a sustainable source of income for them while providing them with the confidence and skills necessary to seize tourism opportunities arising. The heritage experience workshops were repeated in Madaba with another successful outcome. In 2019, Jordan Heritage were the first and only institute creating a Christmas market and festival in the aforementioned Al Khader neighborhood in Salt and the festival received an excess of 9000 visitors in 3 days and the heritage entrepreneurs, ushers, and heritage experience providers made an unheard of 400 JDs on average per person.

• The Sharif Hussein Museum in Aqaba for USAID-BEST and the Royal Hashemite Court
• Salt heritage trails for USAID – BEST
• History of olive cultivation for King Abdullah II Fund for Development
• Great Arab Revolt exhibition interpretation at the GAR Exhibition in Jordan Museum
• Historic content/interpretation for the World Economic Forum history of innovation gallery
• Historic photos and their interpretation for a weekly half-page in Al Ghad daily newspaper
• Historic content for Jaish FM’s Irth Al Urdon weekly show
• Historic photos and research for the Martyrs’ Museum

In 2018, the google analytics show that the JH website www.jordanheritage.jo has become the most visited site on the internet for historic content pertaining to Jordan with over 800 research posts and hundreds of thousands of views per year. Since then, JH has managed to have a three day a week radio show on Jeish FM, a regular half a page on Al Ghad newspaper, and hundreds of thousands of impressions annually on social media.

Jordan Heritage is almost the only production house specifically formed to and for historic content production of international quality. From the cameraman to the intern, every member of the Jordan Heritage team is given 2 weeks of Jordanian history orientation even if their specific technical role doesn’t naturally require it. With 7 Jordanian bright researchers, a BBC-level experienced videographer leading a production team of 5 talented Jordanians, and a promising music composer, the team is genuinely “making history”.Over the course of five years, Jordan Heritage productions:

• Exhibited documentaries at the Great Arab Revolt Exhibition in Jordan Museum
• Published dozens of short documentaries on its social media platforms and website, reaching millions of views over the years
• Held the first historic documentary film festival in Jordan at HabesMajali Museum
• Reached an agreement with the Kulluna Al Urdon Youth Agency – KAFD, to showcase its documentaries at their locations in the 12 Jordanian governorates

Jordan Heritage proudly put Jordan on the cutting edge technology map, putting the first Jordanian archeological heritage site on the second-generation virtual reality sphere. The VR experience is both a showcase of heritage as well as innovation and talent. It provides a fun yet enriching experience.

• Great Arab Revolt Exhibition in Jordan Museum
• Arab Summit – Amman 2017
• World Economic Forum – 2017
• Tens of charity and public events – 2016-Present
• Received a fund from King Abdullah II Fund for Development for a 6 month VR project to develop sites and conduct a mobile VR gallery – 2017
• Received a fund from Wings of Hope charity for a VR 6 month project to develop sites and conduct a mobile VR gallery – 2018
• Signed with Aqaba Development Corporation to launch the first VR Archeological Museum in the world in Aqaba and HRH CP Al Hussein Bin Abdullah II put the cornerstone – 2018
• Participated at the London Conference 2019 with a Virtual Reality Booth – 2019