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Originally Posted by tore
Wow, you're from Lebanon? That's quite exotic! I know there's recently been some internal strife and power struggle in Lebanon. Has that all died down or is there still tension? How is tourism at the moment?
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Everything seems better than all previous years. There were a lot of tourists this summer, specially from the US (not many from the Gulf, yippy!) as the New York Times declared, Beirut as the #1 city to visit in Summer 09. Though the polls were obviously rigged, as the new NYT Editor in Chief is Lebanese (or something like that) but anyway... lol
The country was over crowded in the summer, and xmas season was great, in contrast to the previous very pathetic years...
There always has been some internal strife, sadly the ones that are showed as the "good guys" in the international media, are actually the corrupted politicians. However, some common grounds were reached from both parties some months ago, and everything looks calmer than ever.
I luckily live very far from all these political tensions, so I don't know much about what's been happening for the last 3 years... But we're living well, and tourism, market and business are booming.
I'd say... I'm optimistic. *smiley*