The North Africa Journal: Can Libya Create a Tourism Industry Amid Volatile Government Policies? Can Libya Create a Tourism Industry Amid Volatile Government Policies? ================================================================================ The North Africa Journal on 17 January, 2009 04:02:00 Increasingly seen as a source of hard currency revenues, Libya spent millions of dollars from 2002 to 2006 to build up the beginning of a tourism sector from scratch. Some of the money has been spent on improvements and restoration projects around archaeological sites. Read here or subscribe here.