{"id":19279,"date":"2019-04-10T10:46:57","date_gmt":"2019-04-10T02:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=19279"},"modified":"2019-04-10T10:51:34","modified_gmt":"2019-04-10T02:51:34","slug":"tourism-minister-calls-upon-arab-countries-to-lift-travel-ban-on-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=19279","title":{"rendered":"Tourism Minister Calls Upon Arab Countries To Lift Travel Ban On Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>BEIRUT, Lebanon, April 10 (NNN-NNA) &#8211; Lebanon&#8217;s Tourism Minister, Avedis Guidanian, called upon all Arab countries, to remove their travel ban on Lebanon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The security situation has improved remarkably,&#8221; he said, noting, the United Kingdom has allowed its citizens to visit several Lebanese areas, while France is studying this issue seriously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Guidanian said, in Beirut, that, Lebanon&#8217;s hotels are fully reserved for the coming spring season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Nov, 2017, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Kuwait, warned their citizens against travelling to Lebanon, amid a Lebanese-Saudi crisis sparked by Lebanese Prime Minister, Saad Hariri&#8217;s controversial resignation announcement in Riyadh, which he rescinded soon after.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Saudi Arabia lifted the travel warning against Lebanon less than two months ago, given improved security in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Guidanian added that, if the tourism sector continues its excellent performance throughout the year, tourism revenues will reach eight billion U.S. dollars, as it was in 2010.&#8211; NNN-NNA  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIRUT, Lebanon, April 10 (NNN-NNA) &#8211; Lebanon&#8217;s Tourism Minister, Avedis Guidanian, called upon all Arab countries, to remove their travel ban on Lebanon. &#8220;The security situation has improved remarkably,&#8221; he said, noting, the United Kingdom has allowed its citizens to visit several Lebanese areas, while France is studying this issue seriously. Guidanian said, in Beirut, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":19289,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[300,217],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19279"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}