Golf tourism in Vietnam is set to soar following the staging of the 11th Asia Golf Tourism Convention in Da Nang by global golf tourism organisation IAGTO.
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Golf tourism in Vietnam is set to soar following the staging of the 11th Asia Golf Tourism Convention in Da Nang by global golf tourism organisation IAGTO.
The event was attended by a record 450 delegates – more than 100 higher than any of the previous 10 AGTC editions. It saw supplier delegates comprising golf resorts, golf courses, hotels, inbound operators and tourism boards meet with 162 tour operators from across the world including Asia, Europe, Australia and New Zealand, the US and Canada.
Vietnam is undergoing a major boom in golf course development. There are more than 65 courses currently open throughout the country and a report by America’ s National Golf Foundation in 2024 found that Vietnam was second only to the US for the number of golf projects under development with 51, against 124 in the US.
The nation has also won many honours in golf tourism in recent years, including being named Asia’ s best golf destination and Hanoi the world’ s best golf city destination in the 2024 World Golf Awards.
It was the second time that Da Nang has hosted IAGTO’ s Asia Convention.
At the AGTC Gala Dinner following the event, IAGTO Chief Executive Peter Walton said:“ We first brought AGTC to Danang back in 2017, when there were just four courses within an hour’ s drive of the city. We stated at the time that we anticipated that the success of the 2017 event would generate interest and sales that would support the development and sustainable success of more golf courses. We return to Danang eight years later to a destination with seven fantastic golf courses within that same 60-minute radius.“ Our expectation is that AGTC this year will create at least 5,000 additional bookings, generating over US $ 8 million incremental revenue.”
Earlier, during the AGTC press conference, Danang Department
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