The tower, and the aspire hotel, both won't have liquor licenses. Good luck with marketing those to tourists ;)

Even if you were aiming at tourism from other Gulf nations, you'd need to sell liquor. There has to be a pragmatism in business. Even if you desperately wanted to believe that Gulf Arabs don't drink, it would be foolish to base your business on a premise that could be observed false in every Gulf tourist destination.

Ho hum. Maybe by the time it opens, someone will see sense.