Golf Iceland at the International Golf Travel Mart in Portugal

Earlier this month, November 11th-16th the International Golf Travel Mart  was held in Portugal.

This is an annual event, which has drawn attention to Iceland as a golf destination.

This time around there were 1000 participants and 600 therof had introductions of golfdestinations, be it nations, or certain areas in the world or even particular golf courses which were presented to 300 specialized sales persons and 100 representatives of the media that visited the International Golf Travel Mart.

 This year there were all sorts of introduction on golf and tourism and different types of statistics being presented.

Golf Iceland had a booth at the International Golf Travel Mart and there the organization introduced in general the possibilities of playing golf in Iceland and in particlular its service and that of its members.

Magnús Oddson was the manager of the project and organized the introduction.  He said in that regard:

„We are of course  NOT introducing ourselves as competition to the traditional golf destinations as for example Spain and Florida. Our introduction is based on that Iceland is unique and „different”. Emphasis is put  on possibilities to play golf in our unique nature and that the courses are part of it and of course we introduced the „Midnightsun-golf, which always garners alot of attention.”

Iceland has these past years gotten awards as one of 6 most interesting golfdestinations. About 160 media representatives elect these 6 most interesting golfdestinations.

Magnús said that these awards had drawn alot of attention to Iceland as a golf destination.

Well, you just have to come to Iceland and see for yourselt and try one of our 65 golf courses!!!