The University of Jordan affirms its leadership in tourism and hotel education through its holding of the National Conference on Tourism and Hotel Education in cooperation with the USAID-funded tourism project in Jordan, Amman under the title of Strategic Alliances between Higher Education and Tourism Industry: Building Linkages Among the industry, universities, institutes and colleges in the tourism and hospitality sector, organized by the University of Jordan represented by the Faculty of Archeology and Tourism in Amman and the Faculty of Tourism and Hotels in the Aqaba Branch, US has the International Development (USAID)