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 ...

The country saw its biggest tourist season ever this summer, and that was a problem. War has weakened Lebanese infrastructure, and basic services like electricity and water fell short. The country saw ...

Lebanon has for decades been so unstable that most people prefer not to plan at all and even short-term government planning is rare. Lebanon has for decades been so unstable that most people prefer ...

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 ...

Lebanon does know that its diaspora is essential to help revive the country's tourism economy, but the government would need to do more than just roll out marketing campaigns to convince more tourists ...

BEIRUTBEIRUT — 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 ...

Tourism contributed $268.6 million to the Lebanon County economy alone in 2024, according to the PA Tourism Economics Report.

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 ...

Leo XIV's trip this week to Turkey and Lebanon, his first abroad as pope, is viewed as a sign of hope in a region struggling ...