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Doonbeg named as European Golf Resort of the Year


DOONBEG Golf Links was this week named as the European Golf Resort of the Year for its exceptional contribution to the world of golf travel.
The prestigious award was made by the International Association of Golf Tour Operators (IAGTO) whose membership of over 300 golf tour operators cast votes for this annual award. Doonbeg’s sister property on Kiawah Island, South Carolina, won the North American Golf Resort-of-the-Year Award. The awards were presented at the IAGTO awards gala dinner which was held in Malaga last Thursday.
Previous winners of this award include Turnberry (Scotland); Druids Glen; Praia Del Rey (Portugal); Dona Filipa and San Lorenzo Golf Resort (Portugal) and Carton House. The awards scheme was inaugurated by IAGTO in 2000.
IAGTO’s golf tour operators, representing 49 different countries, cast their votes prior to the awards. Each operator was asked to nominate what they consider to be the best performing golf resorts of the year enjoyed by their golf travelling clients.
Operators were asked to consider the resorts under: customer satisfaction; quality of golf courses and accommodation; value for money; accessibility to tee times; speed of communication and quality of service of the golf resort sales; marketing; reservation; administration and management staff.
Joe Russell, general manager, Doonbeg, said they were delighted to win such a prestigious award. “We rely on the golf tour operators to provide us with a great deal of business and the award is acknowledgement that we are providing the kind of service that they and their clients require. In accepting the award, I do so on behalf of all of the staff at Doonbeg. We pride ourselves on our attention to detail and the service we give and I believe this award is an endorsement of both.”
Congratulating Joe Russell and his team, Pat Daly, tourism and marketing manager, Shannon Development said, “Doonbeg is a superb world class luxury golf resort and a wonderful tourism magnet attraction for the West of Ireland. It is the single largest tourism project ever to have been undertaken in the West of Ireland and richly deserves this prestigious accolade.”

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