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of Tourism’ s Deputy Director, Tan Van Vuong, said:“ Developing golf tourism and leveraging golf tournaments in major international events is a key pillar in Danang’ s high-quality tourism development strategy. Following the success of AGTC 2017, hosting AGTC 2025 further strengthens Da Nang’ s position on the global golf tourism map.”
And addressing delegates at the Gala Dinner, Tran Chi Cuong, Vice- Chairman of the Danang People’ s Committee, said:“ I firmly believe that, with your support, golf tourism in Asia will continue to grow and contribute to the shared prosperity of the region.”
During AGTC 2025, more than 4,500 meetings were held between tour operators and suppliers, with one-third of all meetings involving Vietnamese golf tourism suppliers. In addition, four pre-convention familiarisation trips for international tour operators were hosted in Danang and the nearby ancient trading port of Hoi An, including golf on several of Central Vietnam’ s courses.
The AGTC Golf Tournament also saw 200 tour operators and suppliers compete for trophies on the region’ s Legend Danang Nicklaus course and Hoiana Shores Golf Club.
The Gala Dinner finished with the unveiling of the winners of the IAGTO Awards for Asia. They were:
• Golf Course of the Year 2025 – Cambodia Phokeethra Country Club
• Golf Course of the Year 2025 – Indonesia Damai Indah Golf
• Golf Course of the Year 2025 – Malaysia Horizon Hills Golf & Country Club
• Golf Course of the Year 2025 – Thailand Alpine Golf Club
• Golf Course of the Year 2025 – Vietnam Hoiana Shores Golf Club
• Undiscovered Golf Destination 2025 Sri Lanka
• Golf Destination of the Year 2025 Cambodia
• Outstanding Service Award Sheraton Grand Resort & BRG Golf
• Outstanding Contribution to Golf Tourism Danang
The IAGTO 2026 Asia Golf Tourism Convention will be held from 23-25 March in Pattaya, Thailand. Before then, IAGTO’ s 2025 International European Convention( IEC) takes place in May in Gran Canaria and the North America Golf Tourism Convention( NAC) will be in Alabama in June.
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