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Hi my name's Peter Grimster, I'm the exhibition manager for international
golf travel markets
This years 16th addition is here
in Catalonia, in Spain. I would certainly like to
extend a very warm welcome to our USA
participants who are exhibiting at the event. We have 12 resorts and clubs
from the US. The US is actually one of 65 countries
that are exhibiting at International Golf Travel Market this year.
The event is based on pre-scheduled appointments
so those resorts and clubs and tourist boards
that actually participate here can have one-to-one meetings
with outbound golf tour operators.
We actually host over 350
outbound call tourism operators here which collectively control
eighty percent of the world's outbound tourism market.
Morning, I'm Alan Hale with Fairways Golf. I'm representing Troon Golf
and Troon Golf Vacations from the west part in the United States and then
Pinehurst resort which is in the Carolinas.
It's been a great show. The convention is basically
an opportunity for the US to showcase some of their great destinations.
My diary, the British term, my calendar, is
100 percent full with appointments. Every single buyer I've talked to was serious
about bringing their customers to the United States.
My name is David Reese, I'm the President of Florida's First Coast of Golf. A golf
consortium of
golf tour sport in Northeast Florida.
This is our 15th year here at IGTM.
Our meetings this year have been, we had a fully
booked appointment diary. Out of 50 appointments, we had all 50 of them
filled and 22 operators on the waiting list
so next year we're going to have to expand and
into two stands and
service those appointments. The demand and interest has been great.
I'm Patrick Millard, Director of Leisure Sales for the Sawgrass Mariott
Golf Resort & Spa
in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. This is actually my first year attending the show,
but my colleague has been coming for a number of years. We have
approximately 45 to 50 appointments
throughout the week during our time here and different events with clients
from all over the country. The meetings have been going very well. Each day we have about 15
appointments that go on
for about 20 minutes each and it's been a great opportunity to interact
with some clients that
I haven't met before or haven't been able to make it to the resort.
My name is Susan Eskridge and I'm from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
We are here for the IGTM
golf show. We are trying to tap into the international market. Myrtle Beach is
very
defined in the states, we're known as the golf capital of the US.
The meetings have been really good and a lot of them are very interested
We've already, some of them
I've already been in contact with them through email so they're very
excited and, like I said, you just have to get a few people there and get them to come
back and talk to their friends about and it's all about a good experience and word of mouth
so it's definitely the place to be if you want to work on
bringing people into the US.
We would welcome more North American participants at the event next year which is taking place
in October in Italy, and we
would welcome them to attend and exhibit at the event purely to do
business with these
outbound tour operators and to network with everyone and
anyone who's involved in the golf tourism industry.