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...Guests are encouraged to engage in activities like gourmet cooking classes, backgammon championships and convertible-car rallies. That's on top of the customary golf, tennis and spa treatments. It may be one of the most stylish summer sojourns on offer, but as the English hikers discovered, best to get there before too many others catch...
...river. In the long term, consumption will have to be scaled back if water is not to become a flashpoint in Europe, where governments "still try to manage the supply rather than solving the demand problem," says Michael Scoullos, chairman of the Mediterranean section of the Global Water Partnership. Golf courses are an obvious target, but agriculture, which soaks up more than 70% of supply in the region, won't be spared...
...Vason was 24 when he tried to bring Christianity to Tonga. Burling was just a year younger when he brought the country his own gift of surfing - nothing so profound, of course, though along with golf there's no other sport that stirs such zeal in its disciples. And Burling wants to keep spreading the word. Though a shortage of boards and passable surf spots will limit surfing's growth on the Friendly Islands, "If a kid comes up and asks me to teach him to surf," says Burling, "I'm never going to say no." With salt in their...
...addition to the new exotic golf tourism, increasing affluence in countries like China and South Korea is fueling a golf-course boom. Although construction is slowing in the U.S., in China's Guangdong province alone, there are now 60 golf courses. The country's first professional golf tour was launched this month. The China Golf Association will have four tour events, each with $100,000 in prizes. On Cheju Island, off the tip of the South Korean mainland, 40 new courses are set to open by 2010 as a result of golf's exploding local popularity. In several cities...
...sight of acres of land naturally contoured, unobstructed by sport shops, that inspires the new intrepid golf tourists to lug their clubs across oceans. "You can't make something spectacular like that with a bulldozer," says Mike Lardner, a WWG co-president. "These are the kinds of courses that are basically designed...