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BEIRUT — Fireworks lit up the night sky over Beirut’s famous St. Georges Hotel as hit songs from the 1960s and 70s filled the air in a courtyard overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. The retro-themed ...
BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s unprecedented economic and financial crisis has taken a huge toll on the hospitality sector, a mainstay of the Lebanese economy, with hundreds of restaurants closing and hotel ...
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Just a week after feuding Lebanese leaders sealed a political deal to end 18 months of conflict, restaurants have re-opened, hotel bookings have soared and tourists have replaced ...
BEIRUT: Lebanon launched Wednesday a wide media campaign through leading international TV stations to promote the country as a tourist destination and to downplay reports about the fighting in some ...
BEIRUT, Lebanon, May 13 (UPI) --The oil-rich Gulf countries, once Lebanon's main supporters, now are making a cautious comeback after years of disengagement. This shift comes as Hezbollah has been ...
IT COULD be any luxury hotspot on the Mediterranean. The four-hour flight from Dubai, the region’s financial hub, may cost $1,000 each way. Holidaymakers fork out over $450 for hotel rooms, $100 for ...
BEIRUT, Lebanon – Despite the turbulent security climate, Lebanon’s summer season registered a thirty percent increase in tourism, Tourism Minister Michel Pharaon said Sunday. BEIRUT, Lebanon – ...
This story was produced by our colleagues at the BBC. Joseph Sayegh returned to Beirut last summer after a decade in Paris. He opened his bakery, Levant, a few weeks before the war in Gaza began. “All ...
Pope Leo XIV is preparing to travel to Lebanon later this year, in what could be his first journey abroad since being elected ...