Sarasota's annual Whiskey Obsession festival recently earned a mention in a Forbes feature on the growing industry of whiskey tourism. According to the article, the whiskey industry records roughly 5 million distillery visits each year, most of them in Scotland and the United States. The article mentions that Whiskey Obsession organizers bill the event as "the largest world whiskey festival in the U.S." and that it "attracts several thousand people" each year. Read the full Forbes article online.