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<strong>March</strong> <strong>2012</strong> <strong>No</strong>. 338<br />
this offering has been strong so far this<br />
year, primarily from the Catholic and<br />
Orthodox markets in South America,<br />
Russia, Romania, the Ukraine and even<br />
the Far East.<br />
The Golan Hotel<br />
After having devoted its attention these<br />
past four years to renovating three<br />
floors of the hotel and redecorating<br />
reconfiguring the lobby, the Golan<br />
Hotel, Tiberias has added an outdoor<br />
children’s pool recently, and a massage<br />
area too to its swimming pool area<br />
and has made other improvements<br />
as well, including the installation of a<br />
new wooden deck, improved lighting,<br />
a banister and new pool ceramics. The<br />
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wall close by has been raised, in the interests of greater privacy, the<br />
area has been landscaped anew and new chairs, tables and fencing have<br />
been installed “I have no doubt that this gives us the nicest swimming<br />
pool in all Tiberias,” says Simon Partouche, general manager of the<br />
hotel.<br />
The dining room is the hotel’s next order of business. The carpeting<br />
has been purchased already, and plans are for renovations to start there<br />
quite soon, so that the room will be ready by April. After that, work on<br />
the patio-pergola area is scheduled to commence, and the renovation,<br />
perhaps, of some additional floors.<br />
Markets<br />
“We sense an improvement in the U.S. market for our hotel and from<br />
Brazil and the Far East as well, especially from Korea and China,”<br />
Partouche remarks. “We hosted two groups only from China last<br />
year, but there are about 30 on the books already for <strong>2012</strong>, and<br />
the Finnish market is returning to us after a lapse. However,<br />
some of our markets have been weaker, Spanish tourism
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