During his visit yesterday to the Al-Andalus Tourism Investment Complex project, which is located at the start of the Hay Al-Andalus district in Tripoli, Tripoli based Libyan prime minister, Abd Alhamid Aldabaiba, stressed the need to complete the first phase of the project and the need to open it next February 2025.
He said this is because of the project’s importance in activating the tourism and commercial sectors to promote economic development in the country.
The complex includes the yet-to-be completed Sheraton hotel, the opened Four Points hotel, and the rest of the incomplete Marina Yacht Club, an administrative complex and a shopping complex.
The complex, like hundreds if not thousands of projects and sub-projects across Libya, has been stalled since the 2011 revolution that ended the Qaddafi regime. Lack of government budgets, political and security instability and contractual wranglings (lack of payment and price rises) with the original foreign contractors have been the overwhelming reasons for the halt in implementation since 2011.
