A group of 261 hotel staff broke the Guinness World record for creating the largest floating image on the Dead Sea in an effort to boost Jordan's flagging tourism industry which is feeling the effects of the wars raging in neighboring Iraq and Syria. Organized by Monaco Business Development, the participants were recruited from the Dead Sea's eight hotels to create the image of a peace sign
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