Unchecked tourism threatens Montenegrin coast Gargantuan cruise ships, burgeoning real estate and beaches without a square metre of free sand - a tourism boom is devouring Montenegro's Adriatic coast, once hailed by the poet Lord Byron as the "most beautiful merging of land and sea". Fears are mounting that the walled seaport of Kotor, a UNESCO World Heritage site cradled in a stunning mountain-surrounded bay, could soon go the way of neighbouring Croatia's Dubrovnik - a city that now appears on "no go" travel lists due to overcrowding. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES