A survey conducted by the Ministry of Tourism showed that 745,377 persons used hotels in Lebanon and spent 2,440,618 nights in such facilities in 2017, leading to an average stay of 3.27 nights per person last year. The results show that Arab nationals, including Lebanese citizens, accounted for 47.4% of the total number of guests in 2017 and for 55.9% of aggregate nights spent at surveyed hotels in the country. The ministry based its 2017 figures on data collected from 200 hotels across Lebanon. It indicated that the 2017 figures are not comparable with those of previous years, given that the number of surveyed hotels changes each year.

The distribution of guests by nationality indicates that there were 81,748 clients from Lebanon, representing 11% of total clients in 2017. They were followed by 73,707 guests from Iraq (9.9%); 63,287 from Syria (8.5%); 51,512 from France (6.9%); 43,352 from the United States (5.8%); 37,955 from Jordan and 37,832 from Germany (5.1% each); 35,037 from the United Kingdom (4.7%); 32,243 from Egypt (4.3%); 31,496 from Canada (4.2%); 26,643 from Saudi Arabia (3.6%) and 19,870 clients from Australia (2.7%). Further, Iraqi citizens accounted for 13.3% of total nights spent at surveyed hotels in Lebanon in 2017, followed by Lebanese citizens with 12.8% of the total, Syrians (11.7%), French (7.7%), Americans (6.6%), Jordanians (5.5%) and Egyptians (5.3%).

In parallel, Syrian nationals stayed an average of 4.53 nights at surveyed hotels in Lebanon last year, the highest usage per night among Arab nationalities. Clients from Iraq followed with 4.42 nights, then guests from Egypt (4.03 nights), Lebanon (3.81 nights), Jordan (3.53 nights), the Comoros Islands (3.23 nights), Mauritania (3.13 nights), Libya (3.11 nights), Saudi Arabia (2.98 nights), Palestine (2.8 nights), Tunisia (2.79 nights), Yemen (2.75 nights), Algeria (2.69 nights), Qatar (2.68 nights), Kuwait (2.57 nights), Bahrain and the UAE (2.35 nights each), Sudan (2.32 nights) and Djibouti (2.3 nights). Further, the average length of stay per person for non-Arab visitors shows that nationals from Afghanistan stayed 5.07 nights, followed by clients from Slovenia (4.71 nights), Mozambique (4.47 nights), Brunei Darussalam (4.43 nights), Andorra (4.15 nights), Uzbekistan (4.13 nights), Dominica (4.08 nights), Gabon (3.99 nights), Belarus (3.94 nights), and Cameroon (3.92 nights).