Omni Shops, Inc. announced today the go-live of their new travel website and reservation service, NorthwestGolfTours.com (www.NorthwestGolfTours.com). Designed to assist travelers from outside the Puget Sound region in making plans for golf vacations to the Northwest, the website provides detailed information on the finest golf courses in the area, including the spectacular Chambers Bay. In addition, Northwest Golf Tours has formed alliances with select hotels, B's38;B'ss, and vacation homeowners to provide travelers with unique, pre-screened lodging options not available anywhere else.
Northwest Golf Tours's President, Brian Palosi, had this to say about the website launch, The opening of Chambers Bay in 2007 and it'ss being awarded the 2015 US Open and 2010 US Amateur
so quickly has generated enormous interest from golfers around the United States and the world, in coming to our region to play the course. Our goal is to make planning their golf trips
easier and to make the trip itself more enjoyable. Market research revealed that many visiting golfers lacked the information they needed to make the most of their visits to the area. In
fact, until the opening of Chambers Bay (http://www.northwestgolftours.com/chambers_bay_golf_course.htm),
relatively few golfers came to the Puget Sound region specifically to play golf, and those that did came from nearby locations like Vancouver, BC and Portland, OR. Now, golfers from all
over are flocking to Tacoma (the home of Chambers Bay) to play golf. Great golf trips are about a lot more than showing up at a course and teeing off, said Palosi. We know that many
travelers want a range of lodging options (http://www.northwestgolftours.com/preferred_lodging_options.htm) -
not just hotels - and it'ss essential to have someone local guide them through the selection process. Tacoma is not like Scottsdale or Hilton Head, there are almost no on-course
accommodations, so we'sve gone out and located and partnered with some incredible water-front lodging owners to fill that gap. And the homes and beach-side locations are spectacular!
Of course, the meat and potatoes of a golf trip, is the golf itself, and Northwest Golf Tours has that covered as well. Turning again to comments from NW Golf Tours President, Palosi, few
players want to visit a new region and play the same course over and over again - and with Chambers Bay being a walking-only course, that'ss even more true. Rather than taking a
scatter-shot approach, NW Golf Tours has chosen to partner only with the finest daily fee courses in the region to help clients round out their vacation plans. Every employee is a
long-time resident of the Puget Sound region and all are avid players. The result is that you'sll be getting the advice of an experienced local golfer anytime you call or email.
But there is still one more element that makes what Northwest Golf Tours offers totally unique: private country club access. With the tough economy, some the finest country clubs in the
US are searching for new sources of revenue, said Palosi. Despite that, few are willing to advertise that fact, and that'ss where NW Golf Tours comes in. We can bring new revenue to our
local golf clubs, without ever having to put their names out in public. Our clients just tell us if their interested in playing one these incredible tracks, and if the tee times are
available, it'ss done. And if they are club members back home, there are even more choices. It'ss very exciting for us and for our clients.