Pierre Achkar: President of the Lebanese Hotel Association and owner of the Printania Palace Hotel in Broummana E: How many hotel rooms will Lebanon be able to offer its visitors by the end of 2005? How many should it be able to offer? What are the requirements for healthy and sustainable hotel industry development in 2005? What can the public sector do better in supervising and assisting hotels? We now have around 16,000 rooms. A further 3,000 are under construction. We might have between 1,500 and 2,000 additional rooms by the end of 2005. With the current growth of tourist arrivals, we don’t need more than 1,000 additional hotel rooms a year. If the situation changes and there is a peace process in the region, we could need as many as 5,000 more rooms a year. We’d be on the international tourism map and the Europeans would be coming. For
