For years, Lebanon has been known as a unique tourism destination. However, two decades of civil war reduced the country's infrastructure, including in the tourist sector, into rubbish. During the war, many hotels and resorts were completely destroyed across Lebanon.
Since the outset of the 1990s with the growing stability, the tourism sector started to flourish once again.
Some tourist sites which were ruined during the war did not disappear from the map. One of these places for instance is called "Shalimar" , which is located in the beautiful mountains area north of the capital Beirut. This place called after the name of a hotel destroyed during the 1975-90 war. The land of this place is owned by Lebanese businessman Johnny Saade.
Just recently, it was reported that Karim Saade, the son of Johnny, married earlier this year May 2007 with Tania Khair.
The woman is the niece of judge Antoine Khair, the President of the Court of Cassation in Lebanon.
