The Commercial Committee of the Andalusian Golf Federation, at the IGTM

The Golf Courses Commercial Committee of the Royal Andalusian Golf Federation has participated this week in the International Golf Travel Market (IGTM), the main international meeting specialized in golf tourism, which this year was held in the Italian region of Lake Como between 28 and 30 October.

The Royal Andalusian Golf Federation has attended the event with its own stand, from which it has promoted our wide golf offer, through appointments held with professionals and tour operators from the main issuing markets, who have been provided with information about each of the federated courses and the different golf destinations offered by Andalusia.

For this purpose, they have been given a complete dossier that the Commercial Committee of Golf Courses has prepared for the event and that includes contact details and all the information that each federated golf course has wanted to provide to the tour operators. The dossier, which has been very well received by the agents to whom it has been delivered, also includes information on complementary tourism and the connections that link the Andalusian airports with the different markets of golf tourists.

With this action, the Royal Andalusian Golf Federation wanted to put tour operators in contact with all federated golf courses, including those who could not attend the event.

The Royal Andalusian Golf Federation is the national leader in number of golf courses, with more than 90 federated courses.

According to data from the Ministry of Tourism and Trade of the Junta de Andalucía, the region accounts for 21.7% of the supply of the whole country. During the past year 2013 a total of 452,000 tourists whose main motivation was the practice of golf visited Andalusia, representing an increase of 5.4% over the previous year.

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