Volume 1, No. 22. November 30, 2001
First
in show
Jan J.van Morkhoven is a native of
The Netherlands, and he has a residence in Alicante, Spain. But the owner of
van Morkhoven Consultancy and an active member of IAAPA since 1980 calls the
Principat d'Andorra home, and as such remains the only representative of that
tiny country wedged between France and Spain. The 468-square-kilometer (290
square miles) Pyrenees Mountains principality has only 65,877 inhabitants and
no amusement parks or manufacturers, but it is well represented in the industry:
van Morkhoven serves on IAAPA's Hall of Fame committee.
His hailing from Andorra
also puts the principality's flag—blue, yellow and red bars with the country's
shield in the middle—first in line among the hundred or so flags in the
International Lounge during the annual IAAPA Trade Shows. The growth of the
industry being what it is, Andorra may not be first in line much longer, with
Albania and Algeria preceding the principality in the alphabet and talk of amusement
developments in both countries. Then, too, the first flag stand may someday
be occupied by Afghanistan.