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MENAFN - 15/11/2009

 


(MENAFN) A report issued by the Lebanese Tourism Ministry showed that more than 1.5 million tourists visited Lebanon in the first 10 months of 2009, or 43 percent more than the year-earlier period, AFP reported.

A record one million tourists landed in the Arab Mediterranean country in July alone, the ministry said, adding that Lebanon hopes to have hosted two million tourists by the end of 2009, a figure roughly equivalent to half the country's population.

Most visitors are Lebanese expatriates and tourists from the oil-rich Gulf, but the tiny Mediterranean country has also gained popularity as a holiday destination among Europeans.

Tourism in Lebanon had taken a beating in recent years after a string of assassinations that began with a Beirut bombing that killed former premier Rafiq Hariri in February 2005.

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