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Bechara "Charles" Khabouth is a Lebanese Canadian nightclub owner, restaurateur, music promoter, and hotelier. Controlling a vast array of Toronto-based hospitality properties and venues, he's been dubbed the "King of Clubs" due to his influence on the city's nightlife.〔 In addition to Toronto, he also has venues in Niagara Falls, Montreal, and Miami Beach. Khabouth manages his properties through INK Entertainment, a company he founded while opening nightclubs in the mid-1980s, his first ventures in the hospitality business. He initially made his name via Stilife, a ritzy nightclub for the posh crowd at the corner of Richmond Street West and Duncan Street in Toronto that ran from 1987 until 1995 triggering what eventually developed into the city's Entertainment District. Still, Khabouth is best known and widely lauded for his association with The Guvernment, a large 60,000-square foot nightclub complex he launched in 1996 and molded into a famous spot that successfully channeled the energy of the local rave scene during mid to late 1990s and later continued as the focal point of Toronto's electronic dance music scene. Parallel to nightlife, almost immediately after establishing himself with clubs in the late 1980s, Khabouth also began launching upscale restaurants in Toronto, most of them as business partnerships either with local celebrity chefs or various Toronto restorateurs. By early 2010s, Khabouth decided to enter the hotel aspect of the hospitality industry by announcing construction of Bisha Hotel & Residence, an upcoming 100-room boutique hotel on Blue Jays Way in downtown Toronto's Entertainment District set to open in spring 2016.〔 In addition to the hotel part, Bisha is to contain around 300 condominium units thus taking advantage of the 2000s and 2010s condo boom in Toronto.〔 ==Early life== Khabouth was born in Beirut during early 1960s to a father who worked in hospitality. After spending years managing a restaurant, his father raised enough funds by 1970 to open his own supper club called Les Trois Tonneaux〔 that went bankrupt after only six months.〔 On his first night back working at the old restaurant, he suffered a heart attack at age 42 and died. Charles Khabouth was only 9 years old at the time.〔 In August 1976, over a year into the Lebanese Civil War, 15-year-old Khabouth was brought to Canada by his mother and stepfather who altogether fled Lebananon on a boat with 300 people to escape the warzone.〔 Settling in Toronto, Khabouth's first job was at a McDonald's. His penchant for working grueling hours soon emerged as he held three part-time jobs at one point during high school.〔 Not even 20 years of age and looking to start his own business, he launched a clothing line,〔 an entrepreneurial effort in Toronto that mostly consisted of getting the hip clothing stores that catered to the emerging Queen West scene interested in his products. However, quickly realizing it would take years to build a name in fashion, he zeroed in on the nighclub business as his next are of interest.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Charles Khabouth」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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