Tourism in Lebanon, one of the most important sources of income in the state treasury, where since ancient times to the present form the backbone of the national economy of Lebanon, and provides jobs for many people. Was seen to Lebanon before the civil war, as the "Switzerland of the East", where the capital and attract foreign business and many of the tourists who wish to recognize the culture and customs of the population of the eastern Mediterranean.
The nature of Lebanon and its cultural diversity and historical result of the different civilizations that have passed it made him a popular destination prominent foreign tourists, the country includes a number of attractions and activities of interest to different groups of people, there are many monuments of Greek and Romanian remaining forts and castles, Arab, Byzantine, Crusader, caves, limestone, churches and mosques historically, sandy and rocky beaches, nightclubs and nightlife Ranches, mountain ski resorts, in addition to Lebanese cuisine world famous
There are many private investment that took the float to the surface in this sector is currently taking growing, as she returned to the country a lot of international hotel companies having departed at the beginning of the civil war. Re-opening of the "Casino du Liban" in 1996, which was a major destination for tourists during the sixties of the twentieth century. Lebanon is the only country in the Arab world that can be intent in the winter for skiing and other winter sports, where the expansion and renovation of the largest ski resort in the country, to accommodate more people and provides them with better services. Officials believe that the return of peace and stability to Lebanon, the tourism sector will be back again to be the most important sources of income for the Lebanese government. Lebanese tourism sector depends also on the large number of Lebanese emigrants who return each year to their home country during the summer season to Aamadoh among family and friends
Lebanon is one of the richest countries culturally, as it combines a number of features of East and West, of human settlements dating back to the Stone Age, to cities and states Phoenician, and temples ROMANIAN to rituals carved in the mountains, and Crusader castles to the mosques Mamluk and public baths Ottoman Empire. Thus, some say that Lebanon is a "mosaic combines Eastern and Western world" and "Encyclopedia of the civilizations of the ancient world of modern and old
The history of cultural tourism is very old in Lebanon, where he visited many of the Orientalists, scholars and poets of European country for their interest in culture and customs of Lebanon East, notably: Alphonse de Lamartine and Ernest Renan and Victor Guerin, they came mostly in the nineteenth century to recognize closely at the historical monuments, archaeological sites , traditional clothing, religious celebrations, or pilgrimage to some holy places and shrines. Behind some of them after visiting some of the paintings and diaries
The history of archeology in Lebanon very old, it dates back to the reign of Almtsrfah, where it was disposed of "and As Pasha" (1883-1893) the first interest of the rulers exploration Alathartm detect many archaeological sites in Lebanon during the reigns of past and even today, and restored some of which are damaged during the civil war, but many other sites are still languishing under populated cities and villages built on the ruins since ancient
Lebanon in the three major museums
· National Museum of Beirut: Founded in 1937, which contains nearly 100,000 pieces antique, mostly dating back to antiquity and Central, including 1,300 pieces dating back to the prehistoric times to the reign of the Mamluks in the Middle Ages.
Lebanon in the three major museums
· National Museum of Beirut: Founded in 1937, which contains nearly 100,000 pieces antique, mostly dating back to antiquity and Central, including 1,300 pieces dating back to the prehistoric times to the reign of the Mamluks in the Middle Ages.
· Gibran Museum: It was basically a monastery in the town of a human, then turned into a museum by the "Friends of Gibran", in honor of the philosopher and writer, poet and painter and theologian Lebanese American Khalil Gibran. The museum contains a diary Gibran and his furniture and his personal library and his paintings
· Museum of the American University: This is the third oldest museum in the Near East Museum, which displays a number of artifacts dating back to the Stone Age all the way to the Covenant of the Islamic
· Museums include other famous: Museum of Ameen Rihani - Museum of Mustafa Farrukh - Museum and Library Catholicosate Qiliqih - Museum of Baalbek - Museum Dahesh Art - Museum of Lebanese heritage - Museum of Robert Mouawad Private - Museum of Jubail fossils - Palace Sursock - Wax Museum Byblos - Museum of memory of time - soap Museum in Sidon
· Museum of the American University: This is the third oldest museum in the Near East Museum, which displays a number of artifacts dating back to the Stone Age all the way to the Covenant of the Islamic
· Museums include other famous: Museum of Ameen Rihani - Museum of Mustafa Farrukh - Museum and Library Catholicosate Qiliqih - Museum of Baalbek - Museum Dahesh Art - Museum of Lebanese heritage - Museum of Robert Mouawad Private - Museum of Jubail fossils - Palace Sursock - Wax Museum Byblos - Museum of memory of time - soap Museum in Sidon
Lebanon is located at the crossroads for all of Europe, Asia and Africa, and is therefore located in the center of the Arab and Islamic worlds and combines Christian European cultures thus Dinatin Asarhama into the melting pot and cultural one. It appears this is evident in the monuments of Islamic and Christian antiquity, which still exists today, as well as the customs and traditions shared between followers of two religions, which are still prominent to this day, although the unit more or less depending on the degree of openness to the West and mixing with the followers of other religion. Lebanon was a refuge for many religious communities oppressed through the ages, adding it religiously growing legacy and accumulated through many centuries reflected a number of shrines and shrines of Christianity and the Islamic
The most prominent Islamic landmarks are located in Lebanon, of a number of mosques, libraries, schools and public baths in the town of Anjar, which was founded by the Umayyads in the eighth century, and the cities of Beirut, Tripoli and Sidon. The Christian monuments located in the most Jbeil, Jounieh, Beirut, and Bkirki, and a number of areas in Mount Lebanon and South. There are also features of private religious Druze sect exclusively, located mostly in the Chouf
Anjar
And put the town of Anjar on the list of World Heritage sites in 1984. Built this city since 1,300 years, and this is one of the latest archaeological sites in Lebanon, was built primarily to be a commercial center on the trade routes of maize by order of the Umayyad Caliph Walid bin Abdul Malik, and its name is derived from the "Eye of dragging", ie the origin or the origin of dragging , and the latter was a bulwark Amoaa based in the same area lined with mosques, palaces and public baths, stores and houses, along the broad avenues of the city. Covering the effects and the ruins of the city area 114.000 m 2, and is surrounded by huge stone walls two meters thick, Talo seven meters off the ground. Design is based on the city to the rectangular plots civil and Roman architecture, and designs Vmojuzh stone for the Byzantines. Divide the city into four sections by two large Jadtan: the first a width of 20 meters and are going from north to south, and the second from east to west. City Center is located at the intersection of Avenues, there are 4 huge quad gates rules to every corner of the intersection of the four
And put the town of Anjar on the list of World Heritage sites in 1984. Built this city since 1,300 years, and this is one of the latest archaeological sites in Lebanon, was built primarily to be a commercial center on the trade routes of maize by order of the Umayyad Caliph Walid bin Abdul Malik, and its name is derived from the "Eye of dragging", ie the origin or the origin of dragging , and the latter was a bulwark Amoaa based in the same area lined with mosques, palaces and public baths, stores and houses, along the broad avenues of the city. Covering the effects and the ruins of the city area 114.000 m 2, and is surrounded by huge stone walls two meters thick, Talo seven meters off the ground. Design is based on the city to the rectangular plots civil and Roman architecture, and designs Vmojuzh stone for the Byzantines. Divide the city into four sections by two large Jadtan: the first a width of 20 meters and are going from north to south, and the second from east to west. City Center is located at the intersection of Avenues, there are 4 huge quad gates rules to every corner of the intersection of the four
Baalbek
Baalbek was the Phoenician era just a small town where the triad of gods Abdul fertility Canaanite peoples, the Baal and Anat, and select. Today very little remains of the Phoenician ruins in the city, which the Greeks call it the "City of the Sun" (Latin: Heliopolis) during the time of Hellenistic rule, the Romans and re-built and designed to take a purely character Romania. After the Romans arrived Phoenicia in 64 BC. M., Until they turn the town into a big city worshiped the trinity of gods own, ie, Jupiter and Venus and Markorius, and built the temples enormous within two centuries, visitors can Baalbek today to enter the castle through the corridor in front of me ample , then crossing the Venaúan baptized to pray to the great temple complex, which include:
Baalbek was the Phoenician era just a small town where the triad of gods Abdul fertility Canaanite peoples, the Baal and Anat, and select. Today very little remains of the Phoenician ruins in the city, which the Greeks call it the "City of the Sun" (Latin: Heliopolis) during the time of Hellenistic rule, the Romans and re-built and designed to take a purely character Romania. After the Romans arrived Phoenicia in 64 BC. M., Until they turn the town into a big city worshiped the trinity of gods own, ie, Jupiter and Venus and Markorius, and built the temples enormous within two centuries, visitors can Baalbek today to enter the castle through the corridor in front of me ample , then crossing the Venaúan baptized to pray to the great temple complex, which include:
· Temple of Jupiter: This temple is the largest Romanian temples constructed at all, was not left on Corinthian columns of which she was carrying only 6 out of 54 columns pillar. Reaches the height of each column to 22 meters (66 feet), and a diameter of two meters (7.5 feet), which shows how the magnitude of the temple when he was still in place during the reign of the Empire of Romania.
· Temple of Bacchus: It is more ROMANIAN preserved temples in the Middle East, and with it a smaller Temple of Jupiter, but it is still the largest in size of the Parthenon in Athens. Still the goal from behind the building of this temple and its relation to the rest of the temples of the complex a mystery.
· Venus Temple: This temple is smaller than the previous two temples, the dome is located in the southeast side of the complex. It has become a church in the Byzantine period dedicated to the veneration of St. Barbara.
· Temple Markorius: I have not left him only a staircase, which can be seen from the "hill Sheikh Abdullah", a short distance from the main site of the Temple
Baalbek has been developed from the list of World Heritage Sites in 1984
· Temple of Bacchus: It is more ROMANIAN preserved temples in the Middle East, and with it a smaller Temple of Jupiter, but it is still the largest in size of the Parthenon in Athens. Still the goal from behind the building of this temple and its relation to the rest of the temples of the complex a mystery.
· Venus Temple: This temple is smaller than the previous two temples, the dome is located in the southeast side of the complex. It has become a church in the Byzantine period dedicated to the veneration of St. Barbara.
· Temple Markorius: I have not left him only a staircase, which can be seen from the "hill Sheikh Abdullah", a short distance from the main site of the Temple
Baalbek has been developed from the list of World Heritage Sites in 1984
Jbeil
Byblos included to the list of World Heritage sites in 1984, a city inhabited since the Neolithic period, has seen a succession of many peoples and civilizations of the Phoenicians and Crusaders all the way to the Ottoman Turks. The port of Byblos and the city of Mediterranean history, its founding dates back for thousands of years, and is often linked to the Phoenician alphabet, where it is known that the Phoenicians spread alphabet in Europe and the Mediterranean basin from the start of this city
Byblos included to the list of World Heritage sites in 1984, a city inhabited since the Neolithic period, has seen a succession of many peoples and civilizations of the Phoenicians and Crusaders all the way to the Ottoman Turks. The port of Byblos and the city of Mediterranean history, its founding dates back for thousands of years, and is often linked to the Phoenician alphabet, where it is known that the Phoenicians spread alphabet in Europe and the Mediterranean basin from the start of this city
Put the city of Tyre on the list of World Heritage Sites in 1984. This city was one of the most important Phoenician cities that were not the most important, where he established colonies of their children than the mother city fame and glory in the Mediterranean basin, it is like Carthage and Cadiz, which is the origin of purple dye, known as "Tyrian". Gone through many civilizations over the city and settled a lot of people, from the Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans, Crusaders and the Ottoman Turks still today a number of significant effects in the city, dating back to Roman times fulfilled mostly
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Featuring crafts Lebanese beauty and artistic taste, which attracts many tourists who want to keep commemorates the journey to the country. Artisan production is concentrated in the Lebanese villages and some towns, where people inherited this skill from generation to generation, and make their products from local raw materials. Specialize each of the regions of Lebanon a particular type of craft production, such as basket-making, carpet weaving industry, ceramics, pottery, copper, metal, embroidery, glass industry and the drafting of gold and silver. Characterized by some Lebanese villages also made ornate church bells
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Featuring crafts Lebanese beauty and artistic taste, which attracts many tourists who want to keep commemorates the journey to the country. Artisan production is concentrated in the Lebanese villages and some towns, where people inherited this skill from generation to generation, and make their products from local raw materials. Specialize each of the regions of Lebanon a particular type of craft production, such as basket-making, carpet weaving industry, ceramics, pottery, copper, metal, embroidery, glass industry and the drafting of gold and silver. Characterized by some Lebanese villages also made ornate church bells
Lebanon provides an opportunity for tourists to the various activities in nature, due to the diversity of geography, nature and climate, which allows the exercise of various types of outdoor sport in the regions and different seasons. Of mountains, forests and deciduous evergreen, beaches, rivers, seasonal and permanent, caves, valleys, mountain passes, the most prominent Lebanese terrain, as well as home to the country a diversity of wildlife, particularly birds of them. Lebanon has become in recent years a popular destination for nature lovers who wish to exploration, camping, bird watching and practice other forms of eco-tourism and sports and activities that can be exercised
· Quartet ride a bike (ATV).
· Rafting, a relatively new sport in Lebanon, Mahbuha practiced in the rivers Orontes and the Litani and the initial
· Walking in the woods and explore, a famous sport, and there are a number of favorite sites to which he refers Mahbuha, such as the Al-Shouf Cedar Reserve, sand, forest Aalghemuah, protected Horch Ehden, and Nahr Ibrahim.
· Explore the caves, the famous and ancient sport in Lebanon, of the famous caves frequented by people: the horizon cave, cave Ruwais, and set the building block.
· Quartet ride a bike (ATV).
· Rafting, a relatively new sport in Lebanon, Mahbuha practiced in the rivers Orontes and the Litani and the initial
· Walking in the woods and explore, a famous sport, and there are a number of favorite sites to which he refers Mahbuha, such as the Al-Shouf Cedar Reserve, sand, forest Aalghemuah, protected Horch Ehden, and Nahr Ibrahim.
· Explore the caves, the famous and ancient sport in Lebanon, of the famous caves frequented by people: the horizon cave, cave Ruwais, and set the building block.
Add to exploration by bike, and mountain climbing ladders by drilling, (Italian: Via Ferrata) and abseiling, horse riding and skiing and a single board in mountain biking and mountain climbing.
Lebanon is of the few centers in the Middle East equipped for skiing. In spite of that the country is primarily a summer destination, but winter tourism is witnessing a marked increase, because of the mountain near the coast, allowing the visitor to practice skiing and back to Beirut or any other coastal city within an hour or two only. The ski season begins in December / January. Believes the major resorts to its customers stay in hotels and chalets in addition to winter facilities include many ski. Include winter sports in Lebanon: the ski slopes on the ice, the long run, as well as parachuting, ice Zlaqat driving mechanism, and explore the forests and mountains in Lebanon, six ski resorts are
Lebanon is of the few centers in the Middle East equipped for skiing. In spite of that the country is primarily a summer destination, but winter tourism is witnessing a marked increase, because of the mountain near the coast, allowing the visitor to practice skiing and back to Beirut or any other coastal city within an hour or two only. The ski season begins in December / January. Believes the major resorts to its customers stay in hotels and chalets in addition to winter facilities include many ski. Include winter sports in Lebanon: the ski slopes on the ice, the long run, as well as parachuting, ice Zlaqat driving mechanism, and explore the forests and mountains in Lebanon, six ski resorts are
· Rice: a height of between 1850 and 3087 meters above sea level, and about 120 km from Beirut.
· Faria / Siman eyes: as high as between 1850 and 2500 meters, and 45 km from Beirut.
· Laklouk: up to a height of between 1750 and 2200 meters, and away from Beirut, a distance of 60 km.
· Poorer: up to a height of between 1800 and 2400 meters above sea level, and away from Beirut 45 km distance.
· Channel Bakic: rising 1,900 meters above sea level, and lies 60 kilometers from Beirut.
· Hawthorn: heights ranging between 1700 and 2000 meters above sea level, and about 40 kilometers from Beirut.
· Faria / Siman eyes: as high as between 1850 and 2500 meters, and 45 km from Beirut.
· Laklouk: up to a height of between 1750 and 2200 meters, and away from Beirut, a distance of 60 km.
· Poorer: up to a height of between 1800 and 2400 meters above sea level, and away from Beirut 45 km distance.
· Channel Bakic: rising 1,900 meters above sea level, and lies 60 kilometers from Beirut.
· Hawthorn: heights ranging between 1700 and 2000 meters above sea level, and about 40 kilometers from Beirut.
Lebanon has become a leading regional center in the health tourism sector in the Middle East, as it has all the elements of medical tourism with a number of hospitals and equipment. There are 161 hospitals in Lebanon, including 7 university hospitals containing 15 thousand beds.
Lebanon can provide a broad basket of medical specialties for the treatment of asylum, which include diagnosis of heart disease and surgical techniques and therapeutic techniques and surgical intervention for the treatment of heart disease, plastic surgery and slimming, cancer, physical therapy and pediatric
Up along the coast to 200 km, and the number of sunny days in the country about 300 days, making it a popular destination significant for the lovers of recreation, activities and sea sports growing in different parts of the country's beaches and water park, known in Lebanon: Oceana Bjic Resort (in English: Oceana beach resort ), Edde Sands (English: Edde Sands), the Aguaga Resort (in English: Laguava Resort), Sian (English Cyan), the sur-Mer (French: Janna sur mer), Green Bjic (English: Green Beach), Pamboo Bay (English: Bamboo bay), Waves Aqua Park (English Waves Aquapark), Aqua, Water Gate Park (in English: Watergate Aquapark
A large number of festivals that are held in Lebanon, particularly in the summer season, offeringartists, Lebanese and foreign paintings in various archaeological sites and historical key,particularly in Baalbek, Byblos and Beiteddine The festivals of Lebanon's major are: festivals,Anjar, Al Bustan Festival, Festivals international Baalbeck, Beiteddine Festival, Byblosinternational festivals, festivals Deir Al-Qamar, festivals, pictures.
Tourism is the main sector which supplies the majority of Lebanese treasury of financial resources, where they contribute about 20% of GDP in the decades that preceded the Civil War. Since the end of the war, taking the sector regains its vitality little by little, however, that tourism has not yet returned to the same level as before the war.
Contributed to the tourism sector by about 9% of GDP in 1999, and in 2001 was the fastest growing sectors of the country's growth, where the percentage increase of tourists who visited the country between 1996 and 2000 to 14% annually pumping the tourism sector 6.374 million U.S. dollars to the Lebanese economy in 2003 , in 2005, per capita GDP of U.S. $ 1.433 in 2006, the Ministry of Tourism statistics show that where there are 373.037 reservation at major tourist sites in the country
Contributed to the tourism sector by about 9% of GDP in 1999, and in 2001 was the fastest growing sectors of the country's growth, where the percentage increase of tourists who visited the country between 1996 and 2000 to 14% annually pumping the tourism sector 6.374 million U.S. dollars to the Lebanese economy in 2003 , in 2005, per capita GDP of U.S. $ 1.433 in 2006, the Ministry of Tourism statistics show that where there are 373.037 reservation at major tourist sites in the country
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