Destination Golf - January 2016 | Page 8

AWARDS SEASON Destination Golf Media Ltd [email protected] www.destinationgolf.travel PUBLISHER Dermot Synnott EDITOR Karl Doyle CONTRIBUTORS Andrew Marshall Paul Marshall Ronald Montesano ACCOUNTANT Darren Maguire MARKETING MANAGER Kathy Synnott INTERNATIONAL OFFICES/AMBASSADORS • Albert Ferrer (Spain) • Ronald Montesano (USA) • Peter Barnes (UK) • Gene Oberto (Sweden) • Gianni Attanasio (Italy) • David Cooney (China) • Maarten Hageman (Netherlands) • Benjamin Oosterveer (Tunisia & Morocco) • Kevin Markham (Ireland) • Declan Crowe (Malaysia & Indonesia) • Jordan Fletcher (Canada) • Lee Owen (Australia) • Pall Sveinsson (Iceland) • Wayne Morden (Canada) The slightly calmer winter months provide the perfect time golf festivals, golf shows and golf awards shows. Lake Como in Italy recently played host to the International Golf Travel Market (IGTM) and the 15th annual IAGTO Awards. This glamorous awards show honours golf destinations, golf courses and golf Global tourism associations are all reporting excellent growth throughout 2014,the and the allteam over tathe world, withGolf, this years’ winners Onresorts behalffrom of the Destination I would like to coming wish ourfrom readers US a team at Destination Golf can’t wait to get the 2015 travel season under way. We’ve got statesNew of North Happy Year. and S outh Carolina, the Dominican Republic, Spain, Slovenia, China, Mexico, Morocco and Ireland. A long-standing member and media The last three months 2015 were ver busy months forIAGTO Destination partner of IAGTO, weofare delighted toyreview the 2014 Awards.Golf, as we at tended thewe World Market (London), Golf with Travel Market In January 2015, wereTravel delighted to announce our International media partnerships leading golf (shows Tenerife) and Golf the Show World(Canada) Golf (Por tugal), in addition inspecon tion visits e Awards Toronto and Rhein Golf (Germany). Thistofollows from our to Ireland, Spain and Por tugal. Repor ts back to us showed nothing but increases media partnership with as thegolf inaugural World Golf Awards, which tooka place the Algarve in numbers for 2015, tourism continues to constitute vital in segment in 24global celebrities and sport paired golfers back in November 2014.ent It’sertainment not possible to feature all of thewith winners from around the the travelfrom and tourism marketplace. An estimated 60professional million golfer visits forplace abut weekend of golf, glamour gala events. This scale which took in take 2015 the 32,0 0 and golf courses andis resor ts Hopefully, world, we a to look back to0this glitzy event that surelarge to worldwide. grow in event, stature of the Destination Golf Magazine inspired you to visit some new destinations and took place at Mission Hills Haikou Resort is yet another prestigious golf event in coming years. sample few dif courses. Chinaawhich isferent helping to positioning China on the world golf map. As mentioned, part of our global expansion, we are delighted to recently announceatnew four new As the team from Destination Golf tended the appointments: 2nd World Our travelling duo of An drew & Paul Marshall v isited The Caribbean’s largest Jordan Fletcher Canada Owens (DGanAustralia Pall to Sveinsson (DG Golf Awards in (DG Por tugal. WeRep), wereLee proud to be O f f icialRep), Par tner these awards, which on the Star leading 130Par ѹ