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The destinations celebrated for their excellence by the golf tourism industry are the Spanish regions of Costa del Sol and Logroño-La Rioja, the Dominican Republic, Mauritius, Hua Hin in Thailand and Scottsdale in Arizona.

The best golf resorts have been awarded: Gleneagles for Scotland, the Fairmont Chateau Whistler for the Canadian province of British Columbia and Mission Hills Haikou, on the paradise island of Hainan in China.

In addition to the IAGTO Awards - set up by the world golf tourism organization IAGTO (International Association of Golf Tour Organizers), four other golf courses were recognized for their environmental and community efforts at the 2019 IAGTO Sustainability Awards ; organized jointly for six years with the GEO foundation, an organization for sustainable development in the golf sector.

The 2019 winners are: the Italian club Gardagolf, the Jack's Point Golf in New Zealand, Al Mouj Golf in Oman, on Vidago Palace in Portugal.

The winners were announced in front of 1 golf tourism professionals from all over the world, at the gala dinner held at the Ljubljana Congress and Exhibition Center to close the 200st International Golf Travel Market.

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Peter Walton, CEO of IAGTO, said: “As we host our 19th edition of the Golf Tourism Award each year, it is inevitable and predictable that a number of tonight's award winners will receive this accolade for the second or third time. But there were also notable first-time winners, including the Costa del Sol rightfully voted European Golf Destination of the Year, and on the other end of the scale, also in Spain, the evocative region of Logroño. -La Rioja being named " Golf destination to discover ”of the year by the world's leading golf travel journalists. "

“The fact that Gleneagles and the Fairmont Château Whistler won the trophy for the first time attests to the inexhaustible wealth of golf resorts available in the world and the diversity of the competition. »

« The Dominican Republic becomes the one and only country to have won four victories (2009, 2013, 2016, 2019), Mauritius three victories (2008, 2016, 2019) and Mission Hills Haikou ( 2012, 2019), Scottsdale (2011, 2019) and Hua Hin (2014, 2019) all won the iconic Crystal Award for the second time. "

« This year, we are also highlighting the considerable efforts made by Global-Golf-4-Cancer and its stoic founder, Nick Edmund »

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