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Posted: 15-SEP-2003 00:09

Great Lakes Golf Magazine Travel is administered by Golfpac, Inc., a Florida corporation.


The growing popularity of golf and the increasing mobility of its players has led to an exceptional period of corporate growth for Golfpac® Florida's number one golf travel company based in Altamonte Springs, Florida.

Now in its twenty-seventh year of operation, Golfpac ® employs over 30 people, has annual revenues exceeding $15 million, and annually books over 150,000 rounds of golf. The company is organized in two divisions, domestic and international. The domestic group arranges golf vacations to Florida, Arizona, Nevada, South Carolina, North Carolina, Texas, Mississippi and California. Internationally, Golfpac plans golf itineraries for U.S. players to the famed links courses in Scotland, Ireland, England, Portugal and Spain. Golfpac's extensive experience and its highly automated computer reservations system has been a prime asset in its selection as the reservations service for many Convention & Visitor Bureaus, Tourist Development Councils and golf related web sites such as The Golf Channel, GolfServ and Golf.com. In addition, 29 golf courses from Central Florida that have banded together with Golfpac to form GolfOrlando - a marketing cooperative aimed at promoting the Orlando area as a world-class golf destination.

Golfpac® was founded in 1975 as a small, tee-time service for golfers visiting the Orlando area from snow-belt states in the Midwest and Northeast. Today, services include rental car reservations, hotel accommodations, resort bookings, public, private, and resort golf recommendations, and travel planning strategies along with the traditional guaranteed tee times. "Many of our clients come back to us year after year knowing they can depend on our expertise in course evaluations, course conditioning, new places to play, and even where to dine or seek entertainment after golf," said Jeff Hamilton, president of Golfpac. "These requirements are even more critical to the prospective client who may be undertaking the golf vacation of a lifetime and is booking an overseas trip through our international group for courses and hotels in Scotland or Ireland."

Golfpac® maintains a database of over 400,000 golfers and markets its services through color brochures, ads in golf magazine and travel trade publications, direct mail, and cooperative promotions with other golf companies and organizations. Through its Internet web-site address of www.golfpactravel.com, a prospect can log into Golfpac's® services, peruse the company's golf courses, hotels, resorts and car rentals, and create his or her own custom quote. "We have found the Internet to be an extremely influential marketing tool leading us to new business prospects and unique relationships," said Hamilton. "We are already impressed with Internet opportunities as a means to expand our world-wide leadership position and look forward to continuous enhancement of this marketing medium," Hamilton had said. "If it helps us serve the golf traveler, we are all for it."

Golfpac® is registered with the state of Florida as a seller of travel, #ST14754. Florida has a stringent Seller of Travel Law, Florida Statute 559.927.

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