The ‘III International Golf Lanzarote Cup’, which starts this month of April, will culminate in October with the tournament that faces TT.OO. and agencies.
From left to right: Jesús Medina, Costa Teguise Golf manager; Héctor Fernández, manager of SPEL; Ángel Vázquez, Councilor of Tourism of the Cabildo and president of the SPEL; Pablo Rivero, president of the International Golf Lanzarote Cup; Ramón Cedillo, director of the Reale Insurance office in Costa Teguise; and José Luis Pérez Baños, CEO of Desatascos Timanfaya.
Last Thursday, April 11, the official presentation of the ‘III International Golf Lanzarote Cup’ took place, a circuit consisting of 10 tournaments that will be held from April 20 until October in the fields’ Lanzarote Golf of Puerto del Carmen ‘and the’ Costa Teguise Golf ‘.
The main peculiarity of this competition, which is organized with the sponsorship of the Cabildo de Lanzarote and the External Promotion Society SPEL-Turismo Lanzarote through the label ‘European Sports Destination’, is its closing tournament, the ‘Ryder Golf’ whose participants They are representatives of tour operators and travel agencies.
This competition will take place on October 18 and 19 at the ‘Lanzarote Golf of Puerto del Carmen’ and about 300 operators are invited. The objective is to promote Lanzarote through golf and promote the tourist trade. This 2019 celebrates its second edition.
Óscar Palacios, head of recruitment TUI Group for the Canary Islands, who participated in the previous edition, explains to Tourinews that it is a “great initiative to create closer ties than the purely professional collaboration and knowledge of the destination”. For his part, Hans Müller, head of recruitment Thomas Cook for Spain and Portugal, which was one of the contenders in 2018 by the team of Hotel SENTIDO Aequora Lanzarote, puts in value the combination of tourism and sport: “I think a great initiative to combine tourism with sports and involving teams of people from the world of tourism in a sporting event “.
‘III International Golf Lanzarote Cup’
In the presentation of the ‘III International Golf Lanzarote Cup’, which took place at the MIAC Castillo de San José, Ángel Vázquez, insular advisor of Tourism Promotion and president of the Board of Directors of SPEL-Turismo Lanzarote; Héctor Fernández, CEO of SPEL-Turismo Lanzarote; and Pablo Rivero, president of the ‘International Golf Lanzarote Cup’.
Vázquez highlighted the important promotion that this circuit represents for the island as a qualified and differentiated destination, as well as its contribution to the increase in tourist spending. For his part, Rivero stressed that the circuit incorporates three more tournaments compared to 2018 and that, for the first time, one of his tests will take place in Fuerteventura.
Scheduled schedule ‘III International Golf Lanzarote Cup’:
- April 20: ‘The Island of Lanzarote Open Tournament’ (Lanzarote Golf-Puerto del Carmen)
- May 25: ‘VII Tournament Aequora Lanzarote Suites’ (Costa Teguise Golf)
- June 15: ‘Open de Golf’ (Tarabilla Fuerteventura)
- June 22: ‘II Tournament Torbei Sandos Hotels & Resorts’ (Costa Teguise Golf)
- July 20: ‘Canarian Golf Federation Tournament’ (Costa Teguise Golf)
- August 3: ‘Gambito 1 Tournament’ (Costa Teguise Golf)
- August 17: ‘Gambito 2 Tournament’ (Lanzarote Golf-Puerto del Carmen)
- August 31: ‘VII Meliá Salinas Tournament’ (Costa Teguise Golf)
- September 14: ‘IV Reale Tournament’ (Costa Teguise Golf)
- 11-12 October: ‘V Alondra Tournament – DN Facility (Lanzarote Golf-Puerto del Carmen)
- 18-19 October: ‘Ryder Golf TT.OO.-Agencies’ (Lanzarote Golf-Puerto del Carmen)