YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 22, ARMENPRESS. Armenia is a beautiful country in terms of tourism, and Lebanon has a beach, Lebanese minister of tourism Avedis Guidanian said highlighting the reasons of being mutually attractive for the tourists of both countries, Armenpress reports.
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Developing year-long tourism in Lebanon
May 6, 2019
The tourism industry has long been touted as a main contributor to GDP in Lebanon’s services-oriented economy, but it endured an almost four-year long downturn following the onset of the war in Syria in 2012 and the Arab Gulf countries’ travel advisories against Lebanon that have been issued on and off since mid-that year. The tourism industry has been gradually recovering since 2014, and although it is still not back to its much-hailed peak of 2010, it seems there is a strong will among stakeholders to get Lebanon back in its tourism groove.
On March 19, during an afternoon Q&A session at the national “Towards Sustainable Tourism” conference, Prime Minister Saad Hariri said that several sectors in Lebanon’s economy benefit from tourism and, as such, more attention should be given to the sector. This, he said, should start with “improving our performance and working more scientifically.”