Stay Tranquilo - Why Punta Cana is THE Golf Capital of Caribbean w/ Manuel Sajour Head of Marketing Grupo Punta Cana

Episode Date: April 30, 2024

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But for you have an idea of the magnitude of the force as the potency of golf in the Caribbean, the Republic of Dominican has 30 camps of golf. Wow. It's the country that's the more camped of golf has in an island. And 17 of those are in our zone. So it's a rubro important, not only

of the ingress of the country as tourism of golf, but also as an exportor of golf and of the players of golf, to other countries. It's Daniel, aka Pooch, taking a break from behind the camera to let you know that this episode is brought to you by BetterHelp, a completely online therapy service designed and suited to all your individual needs.

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Hello, we're here with Manuel de Corales-Puntacana, the head of marketing here. How about the things today? We're very We're very grateful Today is a program As you can

is the kickoff of all the for All the Puntagana Championship and it's we're in the expectation of to expectatial

to expectators to start to morning to make sure to make a field of 132 players

where we're waiting that we're in a box of $4 million of dollars No,

if there's many things that are going going to I'm an interview with John

of the PGA Torr that was very good also with Joel Damon

that he won't here, but all is all here. I wanted to say a little of the history here in Corales with the PGA Tour event that's happening here. It's a few years now, but you can say a little of the history here? For sure. This is the seventh version of what is a PGA tour,

but not we're not always like a PGA tour. We did our first advances with what was the Conferry Tour. The Confairy Tour in the 2016 and in 2017, we did two Confairy Toures and we did a good job that was a contract of four years that we had, PGIA's view that we had the capacity to promote us to a PGA tour

and official. And from the 2018 to the day of today, now have been seven PGA exitosos, where the winners until now we've called the King of Corals. Yes, that's so,

and here in the property, how many courses of Goff have here? We have 45 oros of Goff. Exactly. Wow. Here in Coralde has 18 ojoes with six, with with a sea, but we have the Kana that has three-nine.

A nine, a two nine that's a tortuca, a nine that's a recife, and a nine that's called the Kana. And those three-nine are 27 oes, so we have 45 in all the property. And there are in these courses, not of PGA, but as local? Fjave-a, not only there are not only there are not only tournaments, that are that a single-a-cent-locals.

Wow. So, if you invite to all the country, and they use all the camps at the same way. It's like a Tetris, and they play 9 here, 9 here, and they're going to combine. That would be it. When you have 45 oyo, we have the advantage of to combine the joys and the camps

to do the tournaments social and the countries. Wow, that good, that good, that chebred. So, now, have four players of the Republic of Dominican that are playing in this tournament. See, we know, we have a tour professional Dominican that we use to support those players professional local for that they can't have access to a PGA Tour. And we have a tour that's called the Tour Canita.

That tour, during all six months of the tournament, he's the winners. They have four representatives Dominican. We have Arian Silva, to Julius Santos, Arradamese, and to Willie Pumarol. These four people

are disputing the Conna with the Professionals of the PGA Tour representing the band of the... And is the first for them here in this tournament? No, no. Yeah, this modality to invite to four Dominicans we have from the 2018,

and of those have been made the court. We have two Dominicans who always make the court in the court

in the four so we're a good representation as a good so good and so so in this

part of the Republic Dominican is here in Ponticana there are other other places

in the island that there are golf that the children can

play to aggressive the the the the game

the the world we we're One of the objectives principal, not not the federation of golf, but also of our Ministry of Tourism,

is to augment the gold since they are children. But for you have to the magnitude of the force as a potency of golf in the Caribbean, the Republic of Dominican has 30 camps of golf. Wow.

It's the country that the Caribbean that has a lot in an island, and 17 of those are in our zone. So it's a rubro important, not only of the income as a country,

as a tourist as an export of golf and of the golf and to other countries to golf, and also the tourism is one of the thing that I wanted to be the golf is the first that people are looking

when it gets to the Republic of Dominican or the play, that is that that he likes. Yeah, the 17% of all the GDP, of the entire of the country, comes for the tourism. We're talking about about $11,000 million of dollars.

Our tourism is a tourism of the sun and play, as you can see, our climate is lindon, our praises are precious, but the golf represents more than 400 million of dollars to the

country, for those treading to the golf that's just now we're in a time, we're a okay, no, that's a

meckles perfect. Perfect. Because you know that the tourist of golf invest three times more than a tourist than the

people, not the other than the campos, the green fee. So, it's a tourist of a major level of acquisitive.

No, it's like I say, heaven on earth here. It's correct. It's right. It's right.

It's not, the and also the cigars. You know, you know, the Republic Dominican is

the producer number one of the world of cigars. Yeah, no, there's the

one of the three. One question more. For you, what does the

word stay so stay so Stay T'A T'A T'A T'A T'K'K'K'O'K'K'A. That's Be Calm

In English, B'C'K'A'K'A'K'A'K'A'K'A'K'A'K'A'K'A'K'A'K'A'K'A'K'A'K'A'K'all' and we're very, very nice for the time, and we're very happy to be here. And I hope that I'm going to enjoy the week. Thank you. Thank you.