Experience Liberia: Business & Investment Tours
Discover Liberia not just as a destination, but as an emerging investment frontier.
Our Business & Investment Tours are tailored specifically for professionals, entrepreneurs, executives, and institutional investors seeking to explore Liberia’s economic potential firsthand. These curated tours offer immersive exposure to the country’s key sectors, high-level networking, and real-time insight into local opportunities for partnership, trade, and innovation.
🔍 What to Expect
Participants will experience a dynamic combination of:
- Sector-specific site visits to leading businesses, industrial parks, special economic zones, and development projects
- Attendance at industry expos, investment forums, and trade summits
- Private roundtable meetings with CEOs, startup founders, government officials, and investment facilitators
- Guided tours of emerging markets, rural enterprise zones, and urban commercial hubs
- Insight into Liberia’s policy landscape, investment incentives, and market access across West Africa
🏢 Featured Sectors You Can Explore
Our tours are customizable and focus on the sectors that matter to you:
- Agriculture & Agro-Processing
- Rice, cassava, and maize cultivation
- Cocoa and coffee production
- Palm oil processing and export
- Aquaculture and fisheries
- Cold storage and food preservation
- Organic and value-added food products
- Tourism & Hospitality
- Eco-lodges and adventure tourism
- Beachfront resorts and boutique hotels
- Cultural and heritage tourism
- Domestic and regional travel services
- Tour operations and digital booking platforms
- Renewable Energy
- Solar mini-grid systems for rural electrification
- Biomass and waste-to-energy solutions
- Clean cookstove production
- Renewable energy storage and tech importation
- Energy consulting and micro-financing for solar
- Fisheries & Marine Economy
- Sustainable fishing enterprises
- Fish processing and cold chain infrastructure
- Marine conservation services
- Export-focused seafood packaging
- Infrastructure & Construction
- Affordable housing development
- Road and bridge construction
- Warehousing and industrial park development
- Smart city infrastructure (telecom, lighting, utilities)
- ICT & Digital Services
- Mobile and internet service expansion
- Tech hubs and innovation labs
- Software development and e-government solutions
- E-commerce and delivery logistics
- Cybersecurity and digital payment systems
- Mining & Natural Resources
- Gold, iron ore, bauxite, and diamond exploration
- Mineral processing and value addition
- Environmentally sustainable mining technologies
- Healthcare & Pharmaceuticals
- Clinics and diagnostic labs
- Importation and local production of medicines
- Health tech and telemedicine platforms
- Medical training institutions
- Nutrition and wellness services
- Education & Skills Training
- Vocational and technical education centers
- EdTech platforms and mobile learning solutions
- Teacher training programs
- Early childhood development investments
- Transportation & Logistics
- Freight forwarding and customs clearance
- Inland waterway and coastal transport
- Warehousing and last-mile delivery
- Ride-hailing and shuttle services
- Financial Services
- Microfinance and rural banking
- Mobile money expansion
- Agricultural and SME loan products
- Diaspora investment platforms
- Insurance and fintech services
- Real Estate Development
- Mixed-use commercial and residential properties
- Student housing and hostels
- Office space for NGOs and multinationals
- Property management and valuation services
- Manufacturing & Light Industry
- Building materials (cement, tiles, steel)
- Consumer goods (soap, water, packaging)
- Furniture and local textile production
- Food and beverage manufacturing
- Waste Management & Recycling
- Plastic and metal recycling plants
- Municipal waste collection and processing
- Composting and organic fertilizer production
- Sanitation services and public health projects
- Creative Industries
- Fashion and handicrafts
- Music production and digital media
- Film and storytelling ventures
- Cultural tourism integration
🤝 Who Should Join?
- Business delegations and chambers of commerce
- Diaspora investors looking to explore viable ventures in Liberia
- NGO leaders interested in public-private partnerships
- Academics, policymakers, and consultants researching emerging markets
- Startup founders and tech innovators seeking early opportunities in underexplored markets
🌐 Sample Tour Highlights
- Day 1: Welcome & Business Networking Reception with Liberia’s Investment Commission
- Day 2: Sector Tour: Agro-processing facilities & smallholder cooperative visits
- Day 3: Participation in Liberia Business Forum or local trade expo
- Day 4: Site Visit: Special Economic Zones or renewable energy pilot projects
- Day 5: Pitch session with Liberian startups + one-on-one business matchmaking
- Day 6: City & cultural tour with local entrepreneurs
- Day 7: Optional add-on: beachside strategy retreat or travel to secondary cities (Ganta, Buchanan, Gbarnga) for regional investment tours
📦 What’s Included
- Professional itinerary planning and sector match-making
- Airport transfers and private business transport
- Business forum registration or conference passes (if applicable)
- High-level meeting coordination with key government and private sector stakeholders
- Cultural excursions for networking in informal, relaxing settings
- Accommodation in business-class hotels or eco-lodges
- Access to translation, interpretation, and local consulting support
💡 Why Choose Experience Liberia for Your Business Tour?
- Deep local partnerships with industry leaders, ministries, and investors
- Insight into both formal and informal economic ecosystems
- Unique blend of professional exposure and cultural immersion
- Customized planning to suit your industry, goals, and timeline
🤝 Join Us in Shaping Liberia’s Future
The Experience Liberia team is committed to facilitating connections between investors, local entrepreneurs, and changemakers to ensure your impact is lasting, ethical, and locally grounded.
Liberia is calling; now is the time to answer.
📝 Ready to Explore Liberia’s Investment Landscape?
Contact our Business Travel Desk:
📧 [email protected]
🌐 Moble/ WhatsApp: +231 88 875 5057
What are the types of incentives provided?
Provided that the items/supplies are purchased for use with the investment activity and placed in service within one year of purchase, duty exemption is given on the following:
- Medical and educational equipment and supplies purchased in connection with the investment activity
- duty exemption on the importation of machinery and equipment
- duty exemption on the importation of capital spare parts
- Tax holiday
- Preferential tariff for electricity-when available
Automobiles, small trucks, and importation of fuel and lubricant are prohibited from exemption under this provision.
Who qualifies for investment incentives?
According to the Economic Empowerment Tax Amendment Act of 2016, Amendments to Section 16, and related amendments to Section 204 (d), to qualify for investment incentives:
- Investment capital must be at least USD $500,000.00.
- If the investment is for establishing a hospital or health clinic, the minimum capital should be no less than $50,000.00.
Investment should fall within specific sectors:
- Tourism – carried out through tourist resorts, hotels, and cultural sites
- Manufacturing – at least 60% of local raw material content
- Energy
- Hospitals and medical clinics
- Housing – low and medium income
- Transport infrastructure
- Information Technology
- Banking in the non-banking areas in the southeastern regions and in zone 1
- Poultry
- Horticulture
- Exportation of sea products
- Agricultural – food crop cultivation and processing including cocoa and coffee
- Small and medium scale rubber and oil palm cultivation and processing
What are the priority sectors of the Government of Liberia?
- Agriculture and Agro-processing (rubber, oil palm, rice, cassava, marine fisheries, aquaculture, horticulture, cocoa)
- Energy
- Infrastructure (ICT, port management, real estate/housing, logistics, oil, and gas)
- Education
- Health
- Manufacturing
- Waste management
- Mining
What are the businesses reserved exclusively for Liberians?
Provisions in the Investment Act of 2012 reserves ownership of the following business activities exclusively for Liberians:
- Supply of sand
- Block making
- Peddling
- Travel Agencies
- Retail sale of rice and cement
- Ice making and sale of ice
- Tire repair shops
- Auto repair shops with investments of less than USD $50,000
- Shoe repair shops
- Retail sale of timber and planks
- Operation of gas stations
- Video clubs
- Operation of taxis
- Importation or sale of second-hand or used clothing
- Distribution in Liberia of locally manufacture products
- Importation and sale of used cars (except authorized dealerships) which may deal in certified used vehicles of their make
Foreign investors may invest in the following with these conditions, an exclusively owned by non-Liberian, the capital requirement shall not be less than USD $500,000 and where Liberian own at least 25%, the capital requirement shall not be less than USD $300,000:
- Production and supply of stone and granite
- Ice cream manufacturing
- Commercial printing
- Advertising agencies, graphics and commercial artists
- Cinemas
- Production of poultry and poultry products
- Operation of water purification or bottling plant (excludes the production and sale of water in sachets
- Entertainment centers not connected with a hotel establishment
- Sale of animal and poultry feed
- Operation of heavy-duty trucks
- Bakeries
- Sale of pharmaceuticals
What are the steps for granting Investment Incentives?
Investor apply to the Liberia National Investment Commission (NIC) with the following:
- Business Registration
- Articles of Incorporation
- Business plan/project proposal
- Tax clearance
- Hard copy and soft copy on a USB of the Business Plan
- NIC conducts economic evaluation and makes a recommendation to the Ministry of Finance and Development Planning for certification based on:
- Projects of value-added potential
- Employment generation
- Degree and condition of Liberian participation
- Usage of local raw materials
The Minister of Finance either grants or rejects the incentive request.
If granted, an Investment Incentive contract is signed.
