Teeing up for tourism success

A couple of golf clubs in the south and east of the county have joined with compatriots in the Midlands to ensure a greater slice of this tourism sector that generates €300 million a year across the country.

Ballinasloe GC and Portumna GC joined representatives from Slieve Russell, Glasson Lakehouse Mount Temple GC, County Longford GC and Farnham Estate as the Ireland Golf Tour Operators Association (IGTOA) hosted its first in-person event in 18 months to highlight the incredible golfing experiences available throughout Ireland’s Hidden Heartlands.

The IGTOA and Ireland’s Hidden Heartlands Golf Challenge and Business Networking Dinner, in association with Fáilte Ireland, took place in the newly refurbished Glasson Lakehouse hotel & golf resort outside Athlone.

They heard that the golf tourism industry attracted 200,000 visitors a year to Ireland before the outbreak of Covid-19 – accounting for 1.6 million bed nights.

And those clubs within the Hidden Heartlands region want to claim their share of that.

Head of Business development in Fáilte Ireland, Paul Mockler said that the state tourism promoter has, and will continue to, support and invest significantly in the golf tourism industry.

For more, read this week’s Connacht Tribune.

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