Regenerative hospitality ::the case of rural Lebanon

Regenerative hospitality sees accommodations as interventions that make the capacities of places, communities and their guests grow; regenerative leaders abandoned a mechanistic vision of the reality to focus on a living systems ecological worldview; regenerative businesses foster net-positive impact on natural and social ecosystems, and they foster transformative experience creation. This research presents the preliminary results of a regenerative hospitality study in two Lebanese Biosphere Reserves triangulating descriptive survey, social networking analysis and semi-structured interviews. Results show the characteristics of Lebanese regenerative hospitality and shed lights on the importance of the regenerative mind shift, the guest perception of authenticity in regenerative hospitality and the key characteristic of Lebanese regenerative hospitality landscape.