Written by Joseph Farah
Translated by Assaad Maalouf
It seemed the formidable rise in temperature of this hot summer in Beirut had made a negative inroad into hotels and restaurants charging tourists with high prices.
However, the tourism ministry recognized the price issue and has duly specialized a hotline through which tourists can forward their complaints that would expectedly be settled by tourism police.
The Tourism minister, Fady Abboud, is personally looking into these complaints. He lately hurried in to follow up and solve a point of objection raised by Qatari tourists via vice Qatari Prime Minister, Abdullah Al-Atiyya.
Minister Abboud is thoroughly paying this issue a wide scale of care and interest. He incessantly requested that the tourism sector in Lebanon, hotels and restaurants in particular, must conserve that undistinguished facet of Lebanon at the tourism level.
Abboud has accordingly sent a letter to the tourism sector, asking for a thorough commitment to laws and codes, in order to build up a rigid basis for tourism relying fixedly upon absolute transparency and servicing.
In this context, the ministry is sternly focusing upon implementing laws, especially that the summer tourism season has not yet ended and that there will come after holy Ramadan month a “new summer”, which, as being assured by minister Abboud, will be witnessing a great number of tourists visiting Lebanon.
