beach in no time. the hotel district was at the hall to bit to luxury tourism economy. and in its heyday, hotels like the st. george. the furniture on the holiday inn were full of wealthy tourists, business men, journalists, diplomats, and the occasional spy. travelers on a tight budget stayed at hotels like the commodore. and in the mid 19 seventy's, it became host to the world's media when the lebanese civil war erupted. in 1970, a young arab millionaire, yusef nozzle took the commodore hotel on a 20 year lease from the kuwaiti. royal family nozzle was a leading investor in the hotel industry in the region. i'm responsible for attracting thousands of tourists to lebanon. mohammed she borrow, worked with ms. allen, ticketing, and still runs a travel agency near the commodore with the same name. by that, by le fade joseph missouri refundable, commodore la, more to those aven developed can at my take alysia, a ma thought of a saint. joseph missouri lay stature, a thunder cml, capital funding atlantic by decker were open. now, if at the telephone, either for, for athens, but the luxury bay rou, lifestyle, obscure the gap between rich and poor, that w