Year after year, hotelier Pierre Achkar has been the voice highlighting the concerns, needs and demands of local hotel operators and their occasional ideas for new strategies to market destination …
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It has been no magical mystery tour for Lebanon’s hospitality sector this summer. In advance of the year’s main vacation season, optimistic voices such as Phoenicia Hotel owner Mazen Salha …
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Chahe Yerevanian, the chairman and chief executive of real estate company Sayfco Holding, is clearly comfortable in his capitalist boots. He has no reason not to be, since he owns …
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Sayfco CEO Chahe Yerevanian runs among the country's most successful real estate firms. Executive sat with him to discuss the company's long-term strategy, Syrian refugees and the government's role in …
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International business consultancy groups pay great attention to developments in global wealth and luxury markets. As yet, however, the Eastern Mediterranean region has not been researched or measured against other …
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Lebanon is quite the micro-dot on the Chinese trade radar. From a global trade perspective, it is a pointless exercise to quantify how much, or rather, how little, the bilateral …
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The Beirut Central District is advancing but the company in charge of its development is suffering under the economy and under verbal abuse. Solidere’s general manager Mounir Douaidy talks about …
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At long last, Beirut’s urban experience may finally be ready for visitor masses. Two projects — an entertainment center fitted with a multiplex cinema and a department store — are …
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In life and in luxury, everything is a matter of definition. Take the Chinese luxury market. While the core capitalist markets of North America and Europe have been the centers …
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That the Lebanese economy is in a crisis seems so obvious that a description is uncalled for. Several luxury developers said this summer that they don’t have anything to announce …