
July 30th, 2003 -- Mr.
Mario Seric, Senior Consultant, Horwath Consulting
Zagreb, will sit on the
'Trends in Integrated Leisure Resorts and Investments' panel at the 2003 European GOLF Investment and Real
Estate Conference & Exhibition
in Athens on November 29th, 2003.
Mario is very familiar with the international hotel and resort industry, especially regarding the trends in the
U.S. hotel industry,
the entire Mediterranean resort industry, the markets in South-East Europe (Croatia,
Serbia and Montenegro) as well as Eastern European markets (Poland, Czech Republic,
Hungary and Russia). His core competences are the Mediterranean and
South-East Europe, while Mario is very knowledgeable about the overall tourism trends in the Mediterranean and
South-East Europe.
Croatia and other countries in South-East Europe provide significant opportunities for tourism
development, explains Mario. As an important market driver, golf resorts will certainly benefit local communities in terms of higher tourist traffic and higher revenues. Having on mind high seasonality of business in the Mediterranean countries of South-East Europe, golf development should also help extend the season to the spring and fall. On the other
hand, the investors may earn returns by developing golf resorts in the markets that are viable but do not have any golf resorts, thus earning the first-mover competitive advantages.
Career summary
CAREER OBJECTIVE
To create values to governments, investors, development and management companies in their ventures in tourism, resort, hotel and other leisure industries in Croatia and
South-East Europe.
EDUCATION
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, School of Hotel Administration, Ithaca, USA
May 2003
Master of Management in Hospitality
UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB, Graduate School of Economics, Zagreb, Croatia
December 1998