ATLANTA (November 27, 2006) — Urban Expositions has launched www.thegolfgathering.com, a new website for the International Golf Gathering, the invitation-only annual trade show designed to meet the changing business needs of the golf industry’s leading international suppliers and buyers. As the first and only show of its kind in the golf industry, the show will debut September 9-11, 2007 at the Westin Savannah Harbor Golf Resort & Spa and Savannah International Trade & Convention Center in Savannah, GA. The new website offers comprehensive, user-friendly show information and planning resources for current and prospective attendees and exhibitors.
By visiting the www.thegolfgathering.com vendors and retailers can learn more about this entirely new golf products and apparel purchasing trade show concept and how it addresses the specific timing, needs and trends in the golf business. From a complete show description to details about the venue and the all-inclusive vendor package, this site provides a full overview. As an invitation-only event, the International Golf Gathering’s website also features password protected areas for confirmed exhibitors and invited VIP buyers. Here, this exclusive group will be able to receive more detailed information on participating companies, supplier/buyer meetings, industry-sponsored panel sessions, golf events and the full range of business and networking opportunities that comprise the event.
"This new website offers a one-stop information resource for golf industry members looking for a trade event that promises a real, tangible return on time, as well as financial investments," says Joseph J. White, sales/marketing director, International Golf Gathering. "This exciting new trade show format promises to change the way golf’s buyers and suppliers do business and this site outlines how it will do just that."
Announced in August of 2006, the International Golf Gathering will be a private industry show designed to bring the best of the industry’s suppliers and buyers together for the single purpose of writing orders in the strategic September time-frame. The show’s timing and its East Coast location provide vendors with a convenient way to convene to reliably predict trends and purchasing patterns for the coming business year.
As an invitation-only event, attending buyers will be nominated by exhibiting suppliers and will receive a four-night stay at the Westin, including all meals, cocktail parties and events, as well as an additional travel credit. These buyers will include selected major on-course golf professionals, on-course buying groups, large independent off-course retailers, off-course buying groups, golf retail chains, large independent golf retailers and other golf buyers of significant interest to the vendor community.
More than 100 exhibiting companies will pay an all-inclusive fee to participate, which includes booth space at the Savannah International Trade & Convention Center (within walking distance of the host hotel), hotel accommodations and meals for three key executives, as well as a host of relationship building opportunities and business forums.
Further enhancing the innovative show concept, the world-class Westin Savannah Harbor Golf Resort & Spa and the Savannah International Trade & Convention Center offer a cordial, relaxed, yet highly charged golf setting for exhibition and networking opportunities. In addition, the Westin location also puts attendees in close vicinity to the Hilton Head area as well. The International Golf Gathering Championship will precede the show on September 8, giving key supplier representatives and attending buyers the chance to "team-up" and play the challenging Savannah Harbor Golf Course, current site of the PGA Champion’s Tour Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf Tournament.
For more information on exhibiting or attending the International Golf Gathering, visit www.thegolfgathering.com or contact Joseph J. White T: 800.318.2238, ext 344 or 678-370-0344, jwhite@thegolfgathering.com, or Karen Mason T: 800.318.2238, ext 346 or 678.370.0346, kmason@thegolfgathering.com.
Headquartered in Atlanta, GA, Urban Expositions manages and operates more than 20 trade shows serving a variety of industries, including giftware, textiles, resort, and souvenir. Founded in 1995, Urban Expositions offers complete trade show creation and management, marketing, exhibitor/buyer promotions and services, media relations, seminars, event production and all facets of electronic database development and management. For more information, call 800.318.2238 or visit www.urban-expo.com
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