Aug. 21 (UPI) -- Pope Leo XIV is expected to travel to Lebanon before the end of the year on his first international trip.

Pope Leo XIV is preparing to travel to Lebanon later this year, in what could be his first journey abroad since being elected ...

Lebanon's tourism minister urged politicians on Tuesday not to wreck the country's best tourist season in years, after a deadly shooting in a popular mountain region stirred fears of strife ...

In an interview with the Saudi-based television station Al Arabiya, Cardinal Bechara Boutros Raï, patriarch of the Maronite ...

VATICAN CITY - Pope Leo plans to visit Lebanon, the country's senior Catholic official announced on Wednesday, in what could be the first visit outside Italy by the new leader of the global Church.

But the instability has shrunk tourist traffic through Syria, which accounts for a quarter of all tourist arrivals to Lebanon, and Arab arrivals on the Syrian-Lebanese border are down 90 percent.

After years of instability, Lebanon is getting its groove back. Although the U.S. State Department maintains a travel warning, which advises Americans to avoid Lebanon because of safety and ...

If you have been watching a certain American TV news network in the past year, you will probably have seen a series of alluring adverts urging viewers to Rediscover Lebanon. Sexy Lebanese-American ...

More than 1.5 million tourists visited Lebanon in the first 10 months of 2009, or 43 percent more than the same year-earlier period, the tourism ministry said on Saturday. "This number marks a 42. ...

Lebanon lacks oil and mineral resources. It is geographically too small to be independent in terms of agriculture. And the only way the country can survive is by relying on its services sector, mainly ...

A leading international tourism agency said the sector in Lebanon is expected to generate a revenue of $3.4 billion in 2017. “The World Travel & Tourism Council estimated that the travel ...