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Lebanon Eyes One Million Tourists for 1971
Lebanon plans a tourism boom aiming for one million visitors in 1971, leveraging high profile guests like Maria Callas and Ella Fitzgerald. Beirut to Tyre coastlines, ruins, wine, and entertainment venues are promoted, with Khoury confident Arab, European, and American tourist growth and a push to brand Beirut as a glamorous play city and regional holiday mecca.
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Lebanon
Beirut
Israel
Jordan
Maria Callas
Ella Fittergald
Claudia Cardinale
Alain de Jon
Rebecca West
Dewi Sukarno
Pierre Balmain
Anne Lambton
Fleet Street
Lord Thomson
Rupert Murloch
Bolshai Ballet
Mohamad Ali
Council of Tourism
Gheikh Michel Khoury
UPI
Tourism Council
Tyre
Khoury
Kim Philby
Vegas
Red Peacock