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woensdag 28 oktober 2015
La Tournette Golf Club 27.10.15 Golf by Ratio Winter Cup
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maandag 26 oktober 2015
Finale Pin High Cup Belgium Clervaux 2015
23 -25 oktober Finale van de Pin High Cup België in Clervaux, Luxemburg
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donderdag 8 oktober 2015
16th IAGTO Awards honour Michael Campbell at IGTM Tenerife
10 years on
from his remarkable US Open Championship victory, Michael Campbell was given a
standing ovation at the 16th annual IAGTO Awards as he received the golf
tourism industry's Honorary Award last night on the final day of the
International Golf Travel Market in Tenerife, Spain.
At the IAGTO Awards Ceremony in front of 1400 delegates from 65 countries, Tasmania was voted Undiscovered Golf Destination of the Year by the 216 members of the International Golf Travel Writers Association (IGTWA) alongside five Golf Destination of the Year Awards and three Golf Resort of the Year Awards voted for by 600 golf tour operators and three Golf Course Sustainability Awards adjudicated by the Golf Environment Organization.
To view all three Awards press releases and to download photos, please go to www.iagto.com/awards.
A truly spectacular night served to recognise the pinnacle of achievement of golf destinations, golf resorts and golf courses worldwide.
With our best regards from Tenerife!
Peter
Peter Walton
President & Chief Executive
At the IAGTO Awards Ceremony in front of 1400 delegates from 65 countries, Tasmania was voted Undiscovered Golf Destination of the Year by the 216 members of the International Golf Travel Writers Association (IGTWA) alongside five Golf Destination of the Year Awards and three Golf Resort of the Year Awards voted for by 600 golf tour operators and three Golf Course Sustainability Awards adjudicated by the Golf Environment Organization.
To view all three Awards press releases and to download photos, please go to www.iagto.com/awards.
A truly spectacular night served to recognise the pinnacle of achievement of golf destinations, golf resorts and golf courses worldwide.
With our best regards from Tenerife!
Peter
Peter Walton
President & Chief Executive
New European Tour Travel Club announced at IGTM
The European Tour has today announced its new golf travel business – The European Tour Travel Club – at the International Golf Travel Market 2015, Tenerife. The new enterprise will engage with UK consumers initially and will be operated by specialist golf travel company Golf breaks as part of a three-year licensing agreement. Future international licences will be offered to tour operators in key territories where the globally recognised European Tour brand is active, including Asia. The European Tour Travel Club will be offering golf travellers unprecedented access to its unique range of experiences, not only giving them the chance to buy tickets and travel packages to European Tour events, but to be involved in the tournament, too.
Pro-Am places will be available to buy, giving customers the enviable opportunity to tee it up alongside some of the best golfers on the planet, and there will also be options to purchase rounds on the course the day after the tournament finishes.
In addition, the European Tour Travel Club will offer travel packages to many of the most popular golf destinations around the world, including a host of tournament venues and the European Tour’s network of world-class venues in their Properties portfolio. Keith Pelley, Chief Executive of The European Tour, said: “The European Tour Travel Club is a further extension of our consumer and fan engagement strategy and is a natural extension for The European Tour brand.
“For many years The European Tour has worked closely with national tourist boards, destinations, airlines, international hotel groups and tournament venues, so we are perfectly positioned to develop highly attractive and unique tour and travel opportunities.”Keith Pelley continued: “We already have a successful working relationship with Golf breaks, which promotes travel packages to our European Tour Properties network of world class golf venues, and the company will play an important role in establishing the new European Tour Travel Club.”
The European Tour’s International Schedule in 2015 includes a minimum of 48 tournaments spread across five continents. Together, these tournaments form The European Tour’s Race to Dubai. Andrew Stanley, Chief Executive of Golf breaks, said: “The European Tour Travel Club is a significant innovation for the golf travel industry and will offer consumers an array of new experiences unique to European Tour venues and tournaments. “For golfers looking to emulate their European Tour heroes and make their golf break something really special, a European Tour Travel Club package is likely to be the dream ticket.”
As part of the initial UK licensing agreement,Golf breaks has also committed to help the rising stars of the professional game by supporting a European Tour Graduate Workshop. The three-day event at Quinta do Lago, Portugal, in December will welcome approximately 40 newly qualified European Tour professionals, including those who have stepped up from The European Challenge Tour. The induction programme will cover topics including the role and responsibilities of a European Tour professional, Tour knowledge, rules and tournaments, media training and travel planning. There will also be a Pro-Am tournament, sponsored by Golf breaks.The European Tour Travel Club will offer golf packages linked to European Tour, European Senior Tour, European Challenge Tour venues and tournaments globally, including established and emerging destinations.
dinsdag 6 oktober 2015
Worldwide golf tourism in rude health as 18th IGTM gets under way
International golf tourism continues to grow strongly and will notch up its fourth successive year of growth in 2015, IAGTO Chief Executive Peter Walton revealed as the 18th International Golf Travel Market (IGTM) got under way in Tenerife.
Welcoming the 1,400 delegates in his keynote opening address at the island’s Magma Convention Centre, Walton said that figures supplied by both golf tour operator and supplier members showed that the number of golfers travelling to play had increased every year since IAGTO launched its annual golf tourism survey three years ago.
Data collection was stepped up for 2015 with the introduction of quarterly golf tourism surveys and core data gathered from more than 700 operators and suppliers in the first two quarters of this year underlined the upward trend for golf tourism. Golf tour operators reported that the number of golfers they carried between January and March was up by 8% and rose 5% between April and June, both compared with the same period of 2014. That surge was mirrored among IAGTO golf courses and hotels; they saw golf visitor arrivals grow by 7.2% on average for the first six months of 2015.
The outlook is positive, too. As of the beginning of July, golf tour operators reported that forward bookings were up 6.7% year on year, while golf courses and hotels were seeing an increase in forward bookings of 4.6%.
“Globally, IAGTO golf tour operator sales grew by 9.3% in 2012, 11.1% in 2013 and by 8.9% in 2014. We can now confidently assert that 2015 will be the fourth year of consecutive growth,” said Walton.
Walton announced that IAGTO would be launching a new service in January 2016 that would enable any of its member golf destinations to track the number of rounds played by golf visitors on a month-by-month basis, having helped numerous destinations track international golf visitor arrival numbers and after pooling the knowledge and experience gained from those individual projects.
Delegates were told about the work IAGTO has been undertaking to help golf destinations following the unveiling of the global golf tourism organisation’s Blueprint for the implementation of Integrated Golf Tourism Strategies at IGTM 2014 in Lake Como, Italy.
Several destinations had implemented strategies in full or in part based on IAGTO recommendations, Walton said. The biggest project was the launch of a nationwide drive in the United States in conjunction with Brand USA to collect essential golf tourism data from golf courses attracting international golfing visitors.
Within three months of its launch, 60 state and regional tourist boards had signed up to the project, and more than 250 golf courses have already submitted comprehensive data. The results will be published at IAGTO’s 8th North America Golf Tourism Convention, which is being staged at Pinehurst Resort, North Carolina, in June 2016.
Other golf tourism strategy projects outlined in the keynote address were:
IAGTO’s Chief Executive also told delegates that the Tenerife IGTM was a “homecoming” for him. He was UK Director for the Tenerife Tourist Office from 1994 to 1997 and his remit included turning the island into a successful golf destination.
“It was during hosting the first UK golf tour operator fam trip to Tenerife in 1995 that the importance of the golf tourism market became apparent, but also that I recognised the disparate nature of the golf tourism industry,” he said.
“Taking a day off after the fam on the island of La Gomera, I formed the idea of both IAGTO and the International Golf Travel Market to both bring the golf tourism together under one roof and to provide an annual venue for the industry to do their business.
“The rest, as they say, is history.”
Welcoming the 1,400 delegates in his keynote opening address at the island’s Magma Convention Centre, Walton said that figures supplied by both golf tour operator and supplier members showed that the number of golfers travelling to play had increased every year since IAGTO launched its annual golf tourism survey three years ago.
Data collection was stepped up for 2015 with the introduction of quarterly golf tourism surveys and core data gathered from more than 700 operators and suppliers in the first two quarters of this year underlined the upward trend for golf tourism. Golf tour operators reported that the number of golfers they carried between January and March was up by 8% and rose 5% between April and June, both compared with the same period of 2014. That surge was mirrored among IAGTO golf courses and hotels; they saw golf visitor arrivals grow by 7.2% on average for the first six months of 2015.
The outlook is positive, too. As of the beginning of July, golf tour operators reported that forward bookings were up 6.7% year on year, while golf courses and hotels were seeing an increase in forward bookings of 4.6%.
“Globally, IAGTO golf tour operator sales grew by 9.3% in 2012, 11.1% in 2013 and by 8.9% in 2014. We can now confidently assert that 2015 will be the fourth year of consecutive growth,” said Walton.
Walton announced that IAGTO would be launching a new service in January 2016 that would enable any of its member golf destinations to track the number of rounds played by golf visitors on a month-by-month basis, having helped numerous destinations track international golf visitor arrival numbers and after pooling the knowledge and experience gained from those individual projects.
Delegates were told about the work IAGTO has been undertaking to help golf destinations following the unveiling of the global golf tourism organisation’s Blueprint for the implementation of Integrated Golf Tourism Strategies at IGTM 2014 in Lake Como, Italy.
Several destinations had implemented strategies in full or in part based on IAGTO recommendations, Walton said. The biggest project was the launch of a nationwide drive in the United States in conjunction with Brand USA to collect essential golf tourism data from golf courses attracting international golfing visitors.
Within three months of its launch, 60 state and regional tourist boards had signed up to the project, and more than 250 golf courses have already submitted comprehensive data. The results will be published at IAGTO’s 8th North America Golf Tourism Convention, which is being staged at Pinehurst Resort, North Carolina, in June 2016.
Other golf tourism strategy projects outlined in the keynote address were:
- Dominican Republic: In September 2015, the Ministry of Tourism of the Dominican Republic confirmed that it would immediately begin the implementation of a national golf tourism strategy as recommended by IAGTO.
- Morocco: At the Hassan II Trophy in Agadir in March 2015, Morocco’s tourism and golf bodies staged a golf tourism forum at which they announced that the country would continue for a second year the implementation of IAGTO’s golf tourism strategy, signing an agreement with IAGTO partner, the Golf Environment Organization, with a view to developing a country-wide sustainability plan.
- Wallonia: In 2002, IAGTO carried out one of its first Golf Tourism Audits in the Belgian region of Wallonia. IAGTO was asked by Wallonie-Bruxelles Tourism to update its report in 2015 and to make recommendations for further golf tourism promotional development. The project is now under way.
- South Africa: The South Africa Golf Tourism Association (SAGTA) and IAGTO are working together to launch a Golf Destination South Africa website by the end of 2015. South Africa is bringing more exhibitors to IGTM than ever before and the Chairman of South Africa Tourism is also attending.
IAGTO’s Chief Executive also told delegates that the Tenerife IGTM was a “homecoming” for him. He was UK Director for the Tenerife Tourist Office from 1994 to 1997 and his remit included turning the island into a successful golf destination.
“It was during hosting the first UK golf tour operator fam trip to Tenerife in 1995 that the importance of the golf tourism market became apparent, but also that I recognised the disparate nature of the golf tourism industry,” he said.
“Taking a day off after the fam on the island of La Gomera, I formed the idea of both IAGTO and the International Golf Travel Market to both bring the golf tourism together under one roof and to provide an annual venue for the industry to do their business.
“The rest, as they say, is history.”
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