Albanie

TIRANA, 16 juin 2009 (Reuters) - Club Med™ a renoncé à construire un village de vacances en Albanie, sur la côte ionienne, au terme d'un long conflit sur la propriété des terrains concernés, a annoncé mardi le groupe dans une lettre à des habitants de la région.

"Il n'y a pas de projet de Club Med™ en Albanie", a écrit Florence Le Gall, directrice du développement régional, à des villageois qui revendiquent la propriété des terrains à Kakome, dans le sud de l'Albanie, en face de l'île grecque de Corfou.

Chrystel Baude, porte-parole du groupe français, a confirmé l'authenticité de la lettre.

"Le projet est arrêté en ce qui nous concerne en raison de problèmes qui n'ont toujours pas été résolus, et la propriété du terrain est l'un d'entre eux", a ajouté Le Gall.

La société albanaise Riviera avait entamé en janvier des travaux de construction sur le site prévu.

"Nous ne sommes plus lié par aucun accord à la société Riviera", précise la lettre de Le Gall.

Le projet, qui concernait une baie située était depuis cinq ans au centre d'une controverse exemplaire de la difficulté à identifier les propriétaires fonciers dans l'Albanie post-communiste, un problème qui freine les investissements dans le pays.

Le retrait de Club Med™ constitue à ce titre un revers important pour Tirana, qui s'efforce d'attirer les touristes occidentaux vers ses plages préservées de la côte ionienne

Sur le site ami "Club Med Planet" il est à nouveau question de l'[b]Albanie[/b]:
Sur Macase on est au courant du projet depuis 2005, projet qui est en passe de se concrétiser...
http://www.macase.net/foruma/sutra84314.html#84314
Projection réalisé par le cabinet d'architecte patrick genard(début 2006)

Protest Over Albania's Club Med Resort[/b]
(extraits)
07 November 2008 11:17:38 Kakome Bay, 07 November 2008 Tirana
Nearly one thousand villagers blocked fresh efforts to start construction on the Club Med resort in southern Albania’s Kakome bay on Thursday, local media report.
After three years of legal headaches and protests from local villagers, Club Med had announced in July of moving forward with its project to build a tourist village in the picturesque bay.
The French hospitality company said at the time that it has reached an agreement with local villagers, who claimed ownership of the land, to become a stakeholder in the project.
However in September, the Agency for the Restitution and Compensation of Property had denied the claims of ownership from the villagers as not valid, which seems to have reworked the company’s pledge to share part of the stock with the residents of the nearby village of Nivica.
The holiday company plans to build a luxury 350 villa complex in the pristine bay, 220 kilometres south-west of the capital Tirana.
The resort will be built by the Albania construction company Riviera and operated by Club Med. The cost of the project is valued at roughly €75 million.
The villas will span in an area of 700,000 square meters, and will have a capacity of 700 beds. The resort will be operative for six months every year and will include swimming pools, sports grounds, shops and a movie theatre.

07 November 2008 15:01:14
Kakome Bay, 07 November 2008 Tirana
Nearly one thousand villagers blocked fresh efforts to start construction on the Club Med resort in southern Albania’s Kakome bay. After three years of legal headaches and protests from local villagers, the situation has escalated to violence.
A spokesman for the French hospitality company said that they had reached an agreement with local villagers and agreed never to play the unofficial Club Med anthem, Hands Up, in their country.
However in September during the signing of the contracts, a representative of the club was reportedly humming the tune. This touched off scattered incidents of violence which escalated to the point that riot police were called in from the Disney Resort and theme park in the nearby village of Nivica.

Padre...www.clubmedxgo.com
15 December 2008 18:25:06
The Albanian goverment for the build of this structure has stolen the properties of the villagers. They don't pay anything to the villagers for their land.. They don't buy the land but just take it with force.. Is that possible in 2008 in Europe? I don't think so.
The land is holly for any person and Nivica's villagers wouldn't let u to build in their land. [/i]
http://www.clubmedplanet.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=8256
Autres infos:
(Wikipedia)
On 4 July 2008, Club Med announced their agreement with local villages near the Bay of Kakome in Albania to build a village in the area. The 75 million € project will cover an area of 700,000 square meters and have 700 beds. This future resort is expected to be open six months each year.