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Da Nang city to host Asia Pacific Golf Summit

The central city of Da Nang will host the Asia Pacific Golf Summit (APGS) on November 14, following the APEC Summit.
Da Nang city to host Asia Pacific Golf Summit ảnh 1An overview of the Ba Na Hills Golf Club in Da Nang (Photo courtesy of Ba Na Hills Golf Club)

Da Nang (VNA) - The centralcity of Da Nang will host the Asia Pacific Golf Summit (APGS) on November 14,following the APEC Economic Leaders Week.

Vice Director of the city’s tourismdepartment Nguyen Xuan Binh said the golf summit would drawtogether developers, golf course owners and operators, club general managers,golf course superintendents and the golf trade from Asia Pacific membereconomies.

He said the Asia Pacific Inter-Club GolfTournament would be staged at the Da Nang Golf Resort on that day.

The event will be a fun-filled networkingopportunity for ASEAN member economies, including Vietnam.

This is the eleventh Asia Pacific GolfSummit. It will continue to provide a platform for debate on the opportunitiesfor the golf industry in the Asia Pacific.

Vietnam has 32 golf courses nationwide.Sixty others are planned, but golfers accounted for a mere half of one per centof the 10 million tourists visiting Vietnam in 2016.

At the sixth Asia Golf Tourism Convention(AGTC) in Da Nang last year, the city announced that it earned 68 million USD in2016 from golf tourism. It expects to increase this to 186 million USD in thenext five years when three more golf courses open.

According to the International Associationof Golf Tour Operators, 169 golf tourism companies operating in Asia plan toexpand into Vietnam.

The International Association of Golf TourOperators in cooperation with Da Nang’s Tourism department has built a strategyto develop golf tourism for Da Nang in 2017-22.

Da Nang and the neighbouring provinces of QuangNam and Thua Thien-Hue are popular sites in central Vietnam, with beautifulgolf courses designed by Nick Faldo, Greg Norman, Collin Montgomerie and LukeDonald.

Last year, the Ba Na Hills Golf Club in DaNang was named Best New Golf Course in Asia and the Pacific at the Asian GolfAwards of the Asian Golf Association, and was first runner-up as Best GolfCourse in Vietnam.

Participants can register to book seats atthe APGS on the link https://secure.golfconference.org/event/asia-pacific-golf-summit-2017.-VNA
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