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Royal St Kitts Golf Club at Frigate Bay, St Kitts. SKNIS Photo.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n BASSETERRE, St Kitts (SKNIS) — Officials at the St Kitts Tourism Authority are investing more time and energy to increase visitor arrivals from Canada and the United Kingdom, as part of the overall strategy to attract more high-end tourists.<\/p>\n Tourism minister, Lindsay Grant, said articles about St Kitts will be featured in two Canadian publications: \u201cWest of the City Magazine\u201d and \u201cTaste.\u201d According to its official website, West of the City reaches 35,000 of the most affluent homes and has a select distribution based on proven research which targets \u201cdiscriminating, well-travelled and passionate\u201d individuals.<\/p>\n \u201cThe partnership will result in a feature article \u2026 on the emergence of St Kitts as a luxury destination in the September issue and a follow up five-page advertorial in December 2016,\u201d Grant said. <\/p>\n The island\u2019s growing number of quality golf courses is also being used to appeal to affluent individuals. The tourism minister said that emphasis for this initiative is being placed in Ontario, Canada, where he reports there are 2.3 million golfers that spend $11 million overseas annually. A 2015 partnership with the Golf Association of Ontario (GAO) resulted in the staging of the St Kitts 2-ball Shootout at the Royal St Kitts Golf Club last December. <\/p>\n \u201cStarting this Spring, it will provide us with over 40 events integrations for the 2016 golf season,\u201d Grant stated. <\/p>\n In a previous press release, GAO president Chris Osborne said his members \u201care very well travelled\u201d and that his association aims to provide its members with \u201csomething new, something different, something special \u2026 and St Kitts is all of that.\u201d<\/p>\n The efforts in golf tourism also extend to the United Kingdom with a strategic partnership with Barmy Army Golf. During the next three years, St Kitts and Nevis and Barmy Army will host exclusive annual golf events with the inaugural function scheduled to take place in November this year, Grant stated. <\/p>\n Additionally, several travel agents in the UK received specialized training about the tourism product in St Kitts and Nevis and were certified as destination specialists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" St Kitts courting high-end tourists from Canada and UK<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boletines-regionales"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmtsolutions.net\/sela\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmtsolutions.net\/sela\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmtsolutions.net\/sela\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmtsolutions.net\/sela\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmtsolutions.net\/sela\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rmtsolutions.net\/sela\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmtsolutions.net\/sela\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmtsolutions.net\/sela\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmtsolutions.net\/sela\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}