Ducor Hotel
Coordinates: 6 ° 19 ′ 13 " N , 10 ° 48 ′ 47" W.
The Ducor Hotel is a former hotel belonging to the InterContinental Hotels Group in the Liberian capital Monrovia .
The luxury hotel built on Ducor Hill was built by the Israeli construction company Mayer Brothers since 1960 and put into service in 1967. It was considered one of the finest hotels in West Africa . It has hosted numerous conferences. The building, which is architecturally oriented towards European hotels from the 1960s, has around 300 rooms with an unobstructed view of the Atlantic coast and the port of Monrovia. During the civil war the hotel was closed to visitors, part of the government apparatus of the interim government stayed in the rooms at times, followed by closure in December 1989. Despite being guarded, the building complex was attacked several times by looters, some were set on fire and is now in ruins.
A renovation was offered by the Libyan state and valued at 55 million US dollars. In view of the dire situation in Monrovia, this reconstruction is unlikely.
Web links
- DUCOR-HOTEL Renovation begins
- Ducor Hotel Renovation's Dream A Reality
- Report by Kate Thomas (Reuters agency, March 30, 2007) Checkout day looms for Liberian was displaced
- Computer generated photo of the renovated hotel (2010)
Individual evidence
- ^ Report on a trip by the Israeli finance minister Levi Eshkol to Liberia. In: The Jerusalem Post, August 1, 1960 issue.