Golfasian Awards, Associations & Memberships

IAGTO (International Association of Golf Tour Operators) is the global trade organisation for the golf tourism industry. Established in 1997, IAGTO's membership comprises 1330 accredited golf tour operators, golf resorts, hotels, golf courses, receptive operators, airlines, tourist boards, approved media and business partners in 77 countries including, at its core, 330 specialist golf tour operators in 50 countries. It is estimated that IAGTO’s operators control over 80% of golf holiday packages sold worldwide outside of Asia and turnover more than €1 billion per year. [Read more...]

The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) was established on the 18th March 1960. TAT was the first organization in Thailand to be specifically responsible for the promotion of tourism. [Read more...]

The Association of Thai Travel Agents, widely known as "ATTA", is Thailand's private sector association of travel agents. It is a non-profit organization that aims at promoting and supporting the Thai travel industry for the benefit of its members, clients and the tourism industry. [Read more...]

Skål is a professional organisation of tourism leaders around the world, promoting global tourism and friendship. It is the only international group uniting all branches of the travel and tourism industry. Its members, the industry's managers and executives, meet at local, national, regional and international levels to discuss and pursue topics of common interest. [Read more...]

Most Asian countries have but a handful of golf courses; Thailand boasts more than 260, the best of which are part of Golf In A Kingdom and available to overseas golf visitors. While the cost of golf, - and lodging, and food, and entertainment - remain extremely low by North American and European standards, the quality of the golf - and the hotels, and the cuisine, and the après-golf options - remains utterly first world. [Read more...]

Following the Ho Chi Minh Golf Trail is more than a golf vacation. It's an out-of-the-box exploration of golf, history and culture that reveals tropical Vietnam for what it is - one of the most dynamic, affordable, safe destinations on Earth. The golf is world-class, the accommodations trés posh (and often suffused with French colonial charm), but that’s only part of the allure. From the bustle of modern Saigon to the languid, thousand-year-old streets of Hanoi, from the mountains of Dalat to the Red River Delta, from the sunny, windswept beaches of Phan Thiet to the startling seascapes of Ha Long Bay - the Ho Chi Minh Golf Trail delivers the ultimate in golfing adventure. [Read more...]

Formed in 1956 under a special chamber of commerce law with a membership of eight American companies with about 60 American nationals, the American Chamber of Commerce in Thailand (AMCHAM) has grown to over 650 company members which comprise of over 1800 professionals including companies, non-profit organizations, and individuals. AMCHAM is one among more than 20 foreign chambers of commerce legally registered in Thailand. [Read more...]