BEIRUT: The research department at Lebanon’s Tourism Ministry said Wednesday that the number of visitors coming to Lebanon in the month of November 2010 reached 163, 833, compared to 138, 940 visitors that visited the Mediterranean nation during the month of November in 2009, recording an increase of 17.92 percent. According to the research department’s statistics the number of Arab visitors increased by 8.42 percent and their number reached 72, 207.
According to the figures, Jordanian nationals represented 33 percent of the total number of Arab tourists who came to Lebanon, followed by Saudi citizens (15, 769) and Iraqi nationals (10,734). The department also said that the number of European visitors reached 38,660, with French tourists ranking first (7,797), followed by Britons (4,386) and Germans (4,364). The research department added that the number of Asian arrivals was 29,315. American tourists, according the research department, reached 15, 301. Meanwhile, Fadi Abboud, Lebanon’s tourism minister, said that the total number of tourists to the country exceeded 2 million by the end of November 2010 and is expected to reach 2.3 million by the end of 2010.
– The Daily Star
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