"Deutsche Golf Strasse®" and GTDS are responsible for the future research of the top 100 golf courses in Germany

Lüneburg December 2011:
The Lüneburg based company "Golf Tourism Development & Services" (GTDS) is pleased to announce that their golf marketing alliance "Deutsche Golf Strasse®" is now in charge for the expansion of Germany's "Top 100" golfcourse ranking of the internationally renowned golf portal "Top 100 Golf Courses of the World ".

The website "Top 100 Golf Courses of the World", is with now over 1 million "unique visitors" per year one of the most successful golf-internet portals in Europe. It is an independent ranking of top 100 golf courses in major golf destinations in the world.

Although Germany with its 700 golf courses is the second largest Golfnation in Europe, yet only a small rank of approx. 30 German golf courses are listed.

It will be the future task of GTDS and "Deutsche Golf Strasse", to identify the approx. 70 "missing" golf courses based on personal experience, offical rankings and other network partners and to create the appropriate ratings.

Jens Bernitzky, founder of  "Deutsche Golf Strasse®", is looking forward to this task. It is, in his opinion, a further, logical step to bring Germany and its golf courses in the awareness for an  international audience. The quality which offer many of the domestic courses and have a level that can compete internationally.

Partner of "Deutsche Golf Strasse" double benefit from this cooperation:

For example, all golf courses that are both partners of "Deutsche Golf Strasse®" and that turn up in the TOP 100 ranking will be highlighted with a special logo on the TOP 100 page as Partner of the GTDS alliance and it is linking directly to the "Deutsche Golf Strasse" website. Other way around all the German TOP 100 Courses that are  joining the "Deutsche Golf Strasse" alliance also  provided with a concise statement that it belongs to the elite circle of top 100 golf courses in Germany.

Through this partnership, the international flow of visitors will increase significantly on the Internetsite of "Deutsche Golf Strasse". The advantage for the visitors is, that they find attractive golf packages on our website and can plan their next golf vacation in Germany right away.

Already four partners of  "Deutsche Golf Strasse" are among the Top 30´s:

Within the golf courses that have already decided to be partner with "Deutsche Golf Strasse", four already appear in the ranking of the british golfportal. Those courses are:

-  Niedersachsen Course / Hardenberg Golf Resort

- Brunnwies / Hartl Resort Bad Griesbach

- Beckenbauer Course / Hartl Resort Bad Griesbach

- Schloss Course / Golf & Country Club Fleesensee

About the golf marketing alliance "Deutsche Golf Strasse ®":

"Deutsche Golf Strasse®" (German Golf Trail) is Germany's first private domestic golf marketing alliance that has set it´s goal to promote Germany in domestic and international Golfmarkets as an attractive golf holiday destination.

With over 700 golf courses, Germany ranks  No. 2 as Europes biggest Golfnation. The German National Tourist Board (GNTB)  recognized "Deutsche Golf Strasse®" as the first "official" Scenic Route in Germany for "Golfholidays".

Partners in this cooperation can be golf courses and all types of accommodation establishments, that offers within in a radius of max. 25km at least one 18-hole golf course. There are also possibilities for regional tourism associations to become a partner of this alliance.

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Information on the Internet:

Deutsche Golf Strasse®: www.deutsche-golfstrasse.de

Top 100 Golf Courses of the World: www.top100golfcourses.co.uk