Montenegro eyes high-end tourist market

0 Comments | AFP, April, 2008

ULCINJ, Montenegro (AFP) — Looking beyond another summer for its record-breaking tourism industry, Montenegro plans to turn a chain of beaches into upscale resorts to shore up a post-independence economic bonanza.

Singled out for development are around half a dozen locations along the tiny Adriatic state's cove-indented coastline, including several communist-era military facilities.

Central to the plans is Velika Plaza -- a 13 kilometre-long beach of sweeping fine sands for which the government is seeking foreign investors who can transform it into a world-class leisure resort.

"The development of Velika Plaza and other locations on the Montenegrin coast ... can completely change the economic future of our country," the tourism ministry said.

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