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Hotel occupancy improving during Adha Eid
24-8-2018
The secretary general of the Tourism Syndicates Union, Jean Beiruti, revealed to Al Markaziya e-portal on August 22 that the hotel occupancy rate during Adha Eid reached between 90% to 93% in Beirut and 75% outside the capital. He voiced surprise over the continuing war against the tourism sector which started with the alleged marine pollution, as he put it, and which later was directed to the congested and overcrowded traffic at Beirut Airport which forced redirecting some tourists to countries other than Lebanon. Beiruti demanded the authorities to allow the use of alternative runways in the country, given the presence of more than 110 charters, and Qatar’s step to transfer Beirut International Airport as a transit stopover in the face of the continuous GCC boycott of the small Gulf state, in addition to the massive use of the airport by Syrian travelers and the Haj pilgrimage season falling in August this year. Beirut urged giving the tourism minister additional authority to support the industry. For his part, the minister of tourism, Avedis Guidanian, pointed on August 21 to an improvement in tourism activity until the end of July, noting an increase in the hotel occupancy rate in Beirut (67.3% during July) compared to 62.2% during the same period of last year. An Nahar newspaper quoted a former Kuwaiti official as saying that about 30,000 nationals are currently on summer leave in Lebanon. The newspaper also referred to the uninterrupted traffic of Iraqi travelers in the framework of medical tourism, which proves that Arab nationals prefer hospitalization in Lebanon due to its highly accredited and reliable medical sector. On the other hand, An Nahar wrote that the above data insinuates that the country in question is not Lebanon, the country which is overwhelmed by its multiple crises, most importantly the unprecedented level of environmental decadence and deterioration. (An Nahar, Al Diyar, August 21, 24, 2018)
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