Sometimes these proposals are removed, and in other cases they stick. Human gatekeepers are clearly involved, and algorithmic policing is a factor too. Google translate is useful for converting the text into the local language.
Trump International Golf Course in Dubai wrote back in Arabic thanking me for the visit and inviting me to come again soon. This, though I had been clear that the visit was a virtual and not real one, but perhaps it can be claimed, in keeping with the current preoccupation with the metaverse, that looking at photos online and through maps counts as an actual trip nowadays.
Another resort was discovered in the Amazon rainforest - or more correctly in what was once part of the Amazon rain forest - and the proposal was posted there successfully, in Portuguese.
Thinking about aesthetics, as artists are expected to do, links – excusing the pun - could be made with nineteenth century romantic-art concerns, and notions of the picturesque.
Garden, park, and golf course design, exploits methods such as prospect-refuge-theory which emerged then, and design principles such as Savannah-preference are relevant, as they were in the very successful children’s TV series, Teletubbies. Golf might be Teletubbies for adults, but I would like to stress that in no way is the activity intended to mock those who play the sport. The elitist connotations of golf may still be a factor, but women and working-class people made claims on the game long ago, and the situation is different now. Who is to say that, wind turbines, one on every green, would not make golf a more stimulating experience?.
