Golfasian Targets Thai Golfers for Vietnam

June 2016 — In conjunction with Bangkok Airways launching direct flights from Suvarnabhumi Airport to Danang, leading golf tour operator Golfasian has announced a number of special golf vacations to Vietnam’s central coast. The two- and three-night packages include twin-shared accommodation at four-star hotels, ground transfers and several rounds of golf (with caddie and shared golf cart) at courses designed by golf legends Nick Faldo, Greg Norman, Colin Montgomerie and Luke Donald. Deals start...

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Vietnam Golf Tourism Dynamo’s Remarkable Success

Whatever Thuy Trang, Vietnam’s golf tourism dynamo, lacks in stature she makes up in business skills and success. For the past five years, since establishing Golfasian Vietnam, Trang, 35, has been the driving force behind Vietnam’s rise as a major golf tourism destination in Asia. She and her 11 other staff – seven in Ho Chi Minh City and two each in Danang and Hanoi – built the business...

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Faldo to Host Amateur Event in Vietnam

July 2015 — Sir Nick Faldo, newly-appointed as brand ambassador for Laguna Lang Co in central Vietnam, is partnering with the acclaimed golf resort in a series of new amateur golf tournaments, including the inaugural Laguna Golf Classic in November. As home to a championship course designed by the six-time Major winner, which he opened in 2012, Faldo will host the second leg of the event at Laguna Lang Co...

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Angsana Lang Co Joins Golf Coast Vietnam

May 2015 — Vietnam’s only golf tourism collective, Golf Coast Vietnam, has added a new resort member to add further impetus to the Danang region’s international appeal. Angsana Lang Co, part of the Banyan Tree complex that includes the acclaimed Laguna Lang Co golf course, becomes the fourth resort member of Golf Coast Vietnam and the first outside the Danang-Hoi An axis. Angsana Lang Co is a modern retreat...

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Montgomerie Links: 5 Years of Success

In April 2010, when Colin Montgomerie played an exhibition round at the course bearing his name near Danang, golf was unknown on the Central Coast of Vietnam. While his score of 68 remains the course record at Montgomerie Links Vietnam, designed by the eight-times European Order of Merit winner, everything else about golf in the region, and even Danang itself, has changed in the ensuing five years. Vietnam’s fourth...

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