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Four years into its historic economic meltdown, Lebanon’s political elites, masters at survival, are pushing for a recovery that would sidestep tough reforms demanded by the International ...
At a news conference in Beirut on Thursday, Pierre Achkar, president of the Lebanese Hotel Federation for Tourism, said more than 150,000 hotel owners, partners, employees and their families face ...
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The tourism industry in Lebanon has been important to the local economy historically and comprises a major source of revenue for the country. From Stone Age settlements to Phoenician city-states, Roman temples to rock-cut hermitages , Crusader castles to Mamluk mosques and Ottoman hammams , the country's many historical landmarks and ...
However, it was the National Tourism Council (CNT or Conseil National du Tourisme in French), a private organization, which effectively promoted tourism in Lebanon. The growth of tourism on a global scale led to the creation of the Ministry of Tourism in 1966 (Law 21/66, issued on March 29, 1966), composed of the General Directorate of Tourism ...
Nakhal Fort (Arabic: قَلْعَة نَخَل, romanized: Qalʿat Nakhal) is a large fortification in Al Batinah Region of Oman.It is named after the Wilayah of Nakhal.The fort houses a museum, operated by the Ministry of Tourism, which has exhibits of historic guns, and the fort also hosts a weekly goat market.
War has turned Lebanon's idyllic port city of Tyre into a ghost town. Tyre had been considered safe for much of the year in which Lebanese armed group Hezbollah and Israel had been exchanging fire.
Former Palestinian Authority Tourism Minister Kholoud Diibes has commented "that Israel collects 90% of [religious] pilgrim-related revenue". [13] Foreign tourism has been restricted to East Jerusalem and the West Bank since the August 2013 indefinite closing of the Rafah crossing located between Egypt and the Hamas controlled Gaza Strip. [14]