Travel News
SPAIN: Costa Brava
Tourism board to
showcase its golf
tourism success at
IGTM 2016 in Mallorca
‘Golf clubs, hotels and
local services all working
seamlessly together’
the key to our golf tourism success, says Costa Brava tourism
chief. Costa Brava’s emergence as one of Europe’s finest golf
destinations has happened because golf clubs, resorts, hotels
and services are all working seamlessly together, according
to the region’s tourism head, Ramon Ramos. The Director
of Costa Brava Girona Tourist Board has witnessed golf
tourism numbers rise by 100,000 since 2003 – an increase of
nearly 70%, but according to Ramos this stellar rise in visitor
numbers has not happened by accident.
NEW ZEALAND: Among
Fastest Growing Golf
Destinations in the World
Golf tourism in New Zealand
is thriving with golf visitors
up a record 23% alongside
an 18% increase in spend
by these visitors for the
year ending April 2016.
The growth rate is among
one of the highest being
experienced worldwide. This
week, Golf Tourism New
Zealand’s third golf tourism progress report was released to
industry providing a summary of activity taken over the past
year as part of the International Golf Tourism Strategy. An
impressive $329 million is being pumped into the economy
each year from international golf tourism.
CHINA: Sir Nick Faldo
Re-launches Newly
Renovated Laguna Golf
Bintan
After an extensive
12-month revamp,
Laguna Golf Bintan now
reopens as an 18-hole
championship golf course, featuring awe-inspiring beachfront
holes with views of the South China Sea on both front and
back nine, while playing through tranquil lagoons, lush jungle
and Bintan’s famous rugged rocks on 60-hectare of tropical
paradise.
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Destination Golf .TRAVEL
David Howell joins
Clubs to Hire as
Global Brand
Ambassador
Leading club
rental firm signs
Tour star as new
brand ambassador.
ClubstoHire.com, the world’s leading golf club rental business,
has signed a multi-year agreement with England’s David
Howell for the European Tour star and former Ryder Cup
player to act as a global brand ambassador. Howell, who
appears as a regular pundit on Sky Sports’ televised go