{"id":2798,"date":"2010-04-01T18:17:58","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T15:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/?p=2798"},"modified":"2022-09-28T20:57:33","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T19:57:33","slug":"summer-tourist-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/summer-tourist-lebanon\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer tourist invasion of Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/lebanon-tourism-travel-vacation-01.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2799\" title=\"Summer tourist invasion of Lebanon\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/lebanon-tourism-travel-vacation-01-340x255.jpg\" alt=\"Summer tourist invasion of Lebanon\" width=\"340\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/lebanon-tourism-travel-vacation-01-340x255.jpg 340w, https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/lebanon-tourism-travel-vacation-01-398x300.jpg 398w, https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/lebanon-tourism-travel-vacation-01.jpg 797w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" \/><\/a>Lebanon\u2019s tourism industry saw a major rebound in 2009 for the World Tourism Organization announced.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The tourism monitoring group found inbound tourism to Lebanon in 2009 to have risen by 39 percent over 2008 figures, with 1.8 million tourists entering the 4 million strong country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are more and more [tourists] every month,\u201d Daniel Eid, Manager of the Eid Travel Agency in Lebanon, told The Media Line, adding that he expects the increase in bookings to continue in the coming year.<\/p>\n<p>Lebanese Tourism Minister Fadi Abboud told local newspapers last month that he expects tourism activity in the country to grow by a further 10 to 20 percent in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Marcus Marktanner at the American University of Beirut said Lebanon\u2019s incoming tourism brought money both directly and indirectly into the economy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy some estimates, tourism will bring 4 to 5 billion dollars directly into the economy, make up 13 percent of Gross Domestic Production [GDP] and another 7 to 8 billion [dollars] indirectly,\u201d he told The Media Line.<\/p>\n<p>Many of Lebanon\u2019s incoming tourist come from the 14 million Lebanese who have left the country at various points throughout its violent history.<\/p>\n<!-- Either there are no banners, they are disabled or none qualified for this location! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lebanon\u2019s tourism industry saw a major rebound in 2009 for the World Tourism Organization announced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"jnews_post_split":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[8057],"class_list":["post-2798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tourism","tag-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9416,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2798\/revisions\/9416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}