Destination Golf wins big
at the World Golf Awards
in Abu Dhabi
Destination Golf CEO & Founder Dermot Synnott at the 2019 World Golf Awards in Abu Dhabi, joined on stage
by hosts Steve Rider and Ela Clark, presented by Majed Al-Sorour, Golf Saudi.
Professionalism, passion, partnership and global reach are the
cornerstones underpinning Destination Golf’s development
into the number 1 golf travel publication on the internet.
The group’s expansion over the past decade has now enabled its
publications to reach onto five continents; with full operations in
Europe, Middle East, South East Asia, Australia and Southern Africa.
This growth has been achieved, in no small part, through the
dedicated support of our 72 Affiliate Partners and 21 regional
ambassadors, all of whom are as passionate about spreading the
word about golf in their region to the rest of the world.
Our publication is designed to showcase our partners venues,
products and services and facilitate a dynamic and ongoing
dialogue with our reach of over half a million travelling golfers.
However all this activity, energy and passion is not about
advertising, although there is considerable collateral value in this
respect, but rather about providing an effective and interactive
marketing platform to our partners. Our publication is designed to
showcase our partners venues, products and services and facilitate
a dynamic and ongoing dialogue with our data base of over half a
million travelling golfers and seventy one tour operators.
Our commitment to developing and maintaining this interaction
with the golf marketplace is our daily focus. This requires that our
head office staff, and regional teams, work around the clock to
ensure that news about our partners’ activities and venues is kept
fresh and up to date.
Whether it is eastwards from Japan to Canada, or west from
Australia to Southern Africa, a Destination Golf Travel Guide will
only be a mouse click away to help you plan your vacation.
These efforts have been rewarded by Destination Golf receiving
one of the business of golf’s most coveted accolades; a World Golf
Award for World’s Best Travel Magazine which we were proud
to receive at the recent awards ceremony held at the St. Regis
Saadiyat Island Resort in Abu Dhabi.
This acknowledgement, by our peers, will not be cause for us to
rest on our laurels, but rather spur us on with greater energy in our
desire to maintain our position as a market leader, and continue to
World's
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develop and refine one of the most effective and interactive golf
marketing platforms in the world.
Speaking at the World Golf Awards gala ceremony in Abu Dhabi,
Founder & CEO, Dermot Synnott said “We’ve put in the hard miles
over the last 10-years, working tirelessly in many destinations to
establish our brand, so this win is a fitting way to close one decade
of work. As a company, we are always looking to the future. We are
ready to go multi-lingual and look forward to working with more
Destinations.”
“I had been looking for an effective shop window to showcase our
abundance of golf riches in Southern Africa for some time.”
In Destination Golf I finally found what I had been looking for – a
publication which realised that marketing was not only the key,
but something which also needed to be dynamic and continuous
to be truly effective. This initial impression was reinforced, as
our discussions developed, by the lack of a ‘one fits all’ approach
and the group’s willingness to adapt its model to accommodate
the prevailing regional needs. The end result was that I had no
hesitation in recommending Destination Golf as the publication of
choice to showcase our region’s golf to the rest of the world.”
- John Cockayne – golf editor for GolfVista SA and Estate
Living and columnist and guest columnist with Golf Business
News International and GolfRSA.
“Wow, wow, wow and the biggest congratulations to Dermot and
the Team at Destination Golf! From our Far East outpost, with the
success of the first Asia Edition under our belts and with the next
well underway, we could not be more excited by this accolade.
Dermot’s tireless dedication is empirical proof that hard work,
maintaining the highest production standards and enthusiastically
championing the industry’s most revered golf properties while
simultaneously always striving to discover new gems, pays
off. It is our distinct pleasure to be in the Destination Golf orbit
of worldwide golf coverage and contributing to its growth and
success. Onward and upward, DG!” - Zenta Thomas - President,
Dragon Rock; Sam Sakocius - President, Qualitas Project Control.
For more information visit www.destinationgolf.travel