Ragi, who gets 80 percent of his business from the Gulf, said his company was hit by a 90 percent cancellation rate after Hariri’s murder but is starting to pick up now.
“About half of the cancellations have reconfirmed,” he said. “The summer has now become better than we expected immediately after February 14.”
Achkar said many of the Gulf tourists are waiting to make their travel decisions until after the elections, scheduled to begin in less than two weeks.
“If we have stability we will recover very quickly,” he said. “We hope that from now to July 15 we won’t have any accidents,” he said.
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