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...Europe--are on the verge of a golfing boom. At KPMG's Golf Business Forum in Budapest in May, Croatia attracted attention from big-name developers. Montenegro is also generating interest. And while Serbia and Bosnia are unlikely to attract foreign golfers--as neither share Croatia's tradition of tourism--both report a burgeoning domestic market. "We have very often quoted Croatia as one of the countries with the highest potential for development for golf tourism, and we expect significant development there," said Andrea Sartori, head of KPMG's Golf Advisory Services Team. "Serbia and Bosnia will have to look...
...fighting. The local government anticipates 22 courses by 2012, and the region has attracted interest from major names in design, including Jack Nicklaus and Robert Trent Jones Jr. Largely driven by growth in Istria and buzz around Croatia's imminent accession to the E.U., the World Travel and Tourism Council last year listed Croatia as the world's fastest growing tourist destination, a mantle to which the government responded by swiftly laying out 50 potential golf sites in a nation of 4.5 million...
Golfers are not an easily dissuaded bunch. Brijuni still has a full tee sheet, and tractors and other land-moving equipment swarm Istria's hills like nest-building insects. The Croatian assistant minister for tourism, Robert Pende, told Time that investors are bidding to develop a 36-hole site in the small town of Skradin near the city of Sibenik in Dalmatia, despite having to hire ordnance experts to clear mines before laying down turf, giving an entirely new meaning to lift and place...
Back in Croatia, tourism officials report that along with wealthy foreign investors there are Bosnians and Serbs happy to cross borders and ethnic lines in search of a tee time. In a symbolic gesture indicative of golf's role in the region, the Croatian government said land used by the army will be donated for golf courses. In Europe's new century, finally dawning on this dark corner of the Continent, there is a reasonable hope that the military has no need...
...limited to the movie house. More people visited museums in England in 2005 than went to football matches, and according to the U.K. Department for Culture, Media, and Sport, museum attendance is consistently highest in July and August, rising nearly 25 percent higher than the preceding months. Summer tourism naturally accounts for part of the phenomenon, but local residents also have time off, and therefore the leisure to visit museums. The ones I visited this summer seemed well prepared to cater to this special audience. In Berlin, the Neue Nationalgalerie—housed in Mies van der Rohe?...