Travel News
Slovenia to host International Golf Travel
Market 2018
IAGTO Undiscovered Golf Destination of
the Year (2015) to welcome world’s premier
global golf travel event
International Golf Travel Market (IGTM), the world’s premier
global event for the golf tourism industry, today announced
that its 2018 edition will be hosted in Slovenia’s capital city,
the 2016 European Green Capital, Ljubljana.
The IAGTO Undiscovered Golf Destination of the Year
2015 will welcome IGTM 2018 to The GR Exhibition and
Convention Centre, located in the heart of Ljubljana, from
October 15 – 18, 2018.
Great Escape in Greenville Fall 2018
Tour Operators with clients wishing to
visit South Carolina this Fall–Mountains
To Midlands Golf Alliance is featuring The
Great Escape in Greenville South Carolina,
October 14 through the 18th.
The northwest region of the state is the gateway to the
Great Smokey Mountains. Crisp fall air, change of seasons,
panoramic golf, exceptional food and meeting new friends;
that’s what awaits at the Great Escape.
Algarve mourns the death of
‘Grandfather of Golf’
John Stilwell MBE, ‘the grandfather of golf
in the Algarve’, has died at the age of 93.
Stilwell, who was born in Lisbon in 1925 to
an English father and Portuguese mother,
purchased the land on which Penina was
then built to become the Algarve’s first golf resort back in
1966.
His vision to build a five-star hotel and employ the expertise
of Sir Henry Cotton to create the famous course, was
the catalyst for the Algarve to become the leading golf
destination in Europe, which now boasts 43 courses dotted
along the stunning stretch of coastline.
Small-ship expedition
company One Ocean
Expeditions announces
Scotland & Ireland Golfing
itineraries
Hot on the heels of the
announcement that One Ocean Expeditions (OOE) will be
expanding its cruise programme to include Chile, Central
America and the Islands of the North Atlantic next year, the
specialist expedition company has revealed that it will also
be heading to Scotland & Ireland with the first of its new
itineraries focusing on golf, whiskey and history!
More than a dozen of the World’s Top 100 courses are
located in Ireland and Scotland and what better way to visit
some of those renowned links courses than cruising up to
them on board OOE’s newest vessel, RCGS Resolute
‘Taste of the Top 100’ package pairs
Quivira Golf Club & The Towers
Program showcases world-class golf,
superb accommodations, VIP perks
To honor its recent selection by Golf
Digest as one of the “World’s 100
Greatest Golf Courses,” Quivira Los Cabos is offering a “Taste
of the Top 100” package to celebrate the prestigious award.
In addition to unlimited golf on a spectacular course that
the magazine’s panelists praised for its sequence of “18 truly
sterling golf holes,” the program includes 5 days/4 nights’
accommodations in a suite with a private pool at The Towers
at Pacifica, a lavish “resort within a resort” known for its VIP
amenities.
Arnold Palmer’s Bay Hill Club &
Lodge To Add Two-Acre Short
Game Facility
Facility Will Also See Upgraded
Driving Range and Irrigation
System. The Arnold Palmer Design Company, a golf course
architecture firm under the Arnold Palmer Group, today
announced in the spirit of its founder’s constant and never-
ending pursuit of perfection, Arnold Palmer’s Bay Hill Club &
Lodge will add an extensive two-acre short game facility and
make improvements to the driving range following the 2018
Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by Mastercard.
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