Karl Doyle
MAGAZINE
Destination Golf Media Ltd
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Ireland marketing @ destinationgolf. travel www. destinationgolf. travel
PUBLISHER Dermot Synnott
COMMERCIAL MANAGER Mark Behan
MARKETING MANAGER Kathy Synnott
FINANCIAL CONTROLLER Darren Maguire
PHOTOGRAPHY / EDITORIAL Barcelona Golf
IAGTO Ronald Montesano
Kevin Markham
INTERNATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES Albert Ferrer( Spain)
Ronald Montesano( USA)
Peter Barnes( UK) Gene Oberto( Sweden) Gianni Attanasio( Italy) David Cooney( China) Maarten Hageman( Netherlands) Benjamin Oosterveer( Morocco) Kevin Markham( Ireland) Declan Crowe( Malaysia) Wayne Morden( Canada)
Lee Owen( Australia) Pall Sveinsson( Iceland) Dewi Merckx( Belgium)
FRONT COVER Anfi Tauro, Gran Canaria
AWARDS SEASON
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.
Summer This glamorous awards show is honours Full golf destinations of, golf Swing courses and golf Global resorts tourism from associations all over t he are world all reporting, with this excellent years’ winners growth throughout coming from 2014, the and US the
Whether team states Destination they of North have been and Golf Shibernating can outh’ t wait Carolina to under get, the the 2015 Dominican stairs travel or season the Republic shed under, it,’ s Spain high way., time We Slovenia’ to got dust, off China the clubs, Mexico and hit, Morocco the fairways and – Ireland the summer. A long-standing is finally here. No member matter and where media your golfing adventure partner brings of IAGTO you, we hope are delighted this edition to fuels review that the desire 2014 to get IAGTO out there Awards and. get playing again In January. 2015, we were delighted to announce our media partnerships with leading golf shows Toronto Golf Show( Canada e) and Rhein Golf( Germany). This follows on from our
After media a successful partnership start with to the the inaugural season in World Scotland Golf, our Awards partners, which at took The Long place Drivers in the’ Algarve European
Tour 24( LDET celebrities) move from their tour ent onto ertainment Denmark and and sport Holland paired. Those with who professional visit will be in golfers for a back in November 2014. It’ s not possible to feature all of the winners from around the real treat, as Europe’ s top‘ boomers’ smash it over 300 yards. Our media partnership with for a weekend of golf, glamour and gala events. This large scale event, which the world World, but Golf take Awards a look also back continues to this, as glitzy unveils event its that third is sure instalment to grow for in stature another of lavish the ceremony coming took place years at the. at Conrad
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Destination Golf! inaccurate Our other two information features. from the tropical Royal Jakarta Golf Club Enjoy and! Terramar Golf Club, a popular seaside course in
We hope you enjoy our latest Global Guide.
Barcelona.
Enjoy!
Karl Doyle
EDITOR
marketing @ destinationgolf. travel
Dermot Synnott
Editorial Director
Andrew Marshall
Golf Travel W riter
Paul Marshall
Golf Travel Photographer
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