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...Middle East Airlines, the national carrier, is offering discounts of up to 50 per cent on selected packages for a 50-day period starting on Tuesday, while Fadi Abboud, the minister for tourism, says he has...
...Lebanon’s tourist minister Fadi Abboud even threatened legal action against the producers....
...In June Fadi Abboud, tourism minister, admitted that Lebanon had lost more than 300,000 Gulf tourists, who normally drive here via Syria....
...“Our situation is not catastrophic at all,” says Fadi Abboud, the tourism minister....
...“These are the kinds of tourists we want to attract,” says Fadi Abboud, the tourism minister. “This little country is not cut out for fish-and-chips tourism.” But caviar tourists are welcome....
...Fadi Abboud, the tourism minister, predicted a 20 per cent increase on last year’s nearly 2m visitors, and pitched this summer as “probably the best in our history”....
...But businessmen were still hopeful of a “reasonable” season, perhaps 1m visitors, says Fadi Abboud, president of the Association of Lebanese Industrialists. In a week the mood darkened....
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