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British Columbia Canada Selected as 2007 Golf Destination of the Year for North America
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International Association of Golf Tour Operators (IAGTO) has selected British Columbia as the “2007 Golf
Destination of the Year” for North America at the IAGTO Awards, held as a part of the 9th annual International
Golf Travel Market in Marbella, Spain.
Votes for these awards were cast by IAGTO’s 260 golf tour operators from 40 different countries. Each operator
was asked to nominate what they considered to be the best performing golf destinations this year according
to their clients. A winner was named in five regional categories: North America; Latin America and Caribbean;
Europe; Africa and Gulf States and Asia and Australasia.
Among the sixteen other destinations nominated for the North American award were Arizona, Florida, Hawaii,
Palm Springs and South Carolina. “Receiving the prestigious title of North America’s Golf Destination
of the Year, is yet another example of why British Columbia truly is the Best Place on Earth,” said
Stan Hagen, British Columbia's Minister of Tourism, Sport and the Arts. “British Columbia was fortunate
to be awarded the recent IAGTO Super Familiarization tour, hosted by Tourism British Columbia in June.
This was an important showcase of the many spectacular golf experiences available in British Columbia to
forty operators from ten countries.”
Criteria for the Award included:
- customer satisfaction,
- quality of golf courses and accommodation,
- value for money,
- professional conduct of suppliers,
- support from the local tourism industry
- and accessibility to tee times.
Minister Hagen added, “By promoting golf travel, visitors can enjoy not only the many great golf courses
and resorts around the province, but experience the many other world class activities British Columbia
has to offer as well.” “It is only three years since British Columbia won IAGTO’s Undiscovered Golf Destination
of the Year Award,” said IAGTO CEO Peter Walton. “The progress Canada’s foremost golfing province has made
in this time is tremendous, culminating in one of IAGTO’s most successful Super Fams this year. Not only
have our operator members voted British Columbia as North America’s Golf Destination of the Year, more
operators than ever before are now promoting and selling the region to their valuable clients.”
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