Date of Publication :15th March 2025

Abstract: The main objective of this study is to find out how tourism is viewed in Beirut and if its citizens actually are in favour of valorizing its resources or not. Therefore, the research also wants to assess if it succeeded or failed overall. Today, any coastal Lebanese city, including Tyre, Saida, Jbeil or Beirut faces a problem in properly managing its natural, cultural or touristic resources. Therefore, cities like Tyre, Saida, Jbeil and Beirut, have not utilized their resources optimally (irrespective of natural, cultural or touristic), have had records of possessing incorrect and values and setbacks in human capital.
To examine the current situation, in the way that the central authorities in Beirut view the valuation of the Lebanese heritage as a way to improve tourism (and ultimately to improve the country’s GDP), our study demonstrates through the findings, collected both from unstructured interviews and structured surveys, that a much larger population wants to preserve the Lebanese heritage as a means of improving economic development (e.g. Saule, 2004). As such, the study utilized mixed qualitative and quantitative research methods through distributing structured questionnaires and unstructured interviews. Provided our selected data collection methods, our results provided a better understanding of how tourism can be sustainable in Beirut, and how it can be beneficial to the GDP. For the purpose of this research, we will discuss further the quantitative statistical interpretation. The results certainly will hold true in other cities of the region. And, to date, Lebanon has been having a deficient central administration unable to properly use our scarce resources (energy, fuel, water, etc.). Consequently, the Lebanese people must benefit from the rich human capital on the long-term, complete sustainable economic growth through, and improve the tourism industry. Because Beirut city lacked the vision once it accepted the destruction of BEY 194 (Minet Hosn, Plot 1398), Lebanon lost a unique chance to valorize a unique heritage and attract tourists, following the real estate developers’ and SOLIDERE’s acts. On the other hand, Saifi 616, Beirut demonstrates how Lebanese people appreciate valorisation. Therefore, attempt to compare Saifi 616 to Minet Hosn 1398 to showcase our argumentation.

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