Golf data

What the data says about golf tourism

A few figures that change how a golf destination is sold. The official ones, with their study; ours, drawn from thousands of real tour operator packages.

1.4M

foreign golf tourists a year in Spain

€352

daily spend per tourist, not counting the golf course

11.9

nights’ average stay, compared with 7.5 for the average tourist

Source: Economic Impact of Golf in Spain (2024). IE University for the Spanish Golf Course Association (AECG) and the Royal Spanish Golf Federation (RFEG), with the Spanish Golf Managers Association. 2022 data (Mastercard, INE and a survey of golf courses).

How much each market spends

An Irish golfer spends three times as much per day as a French one

Not every market is worth the same. Choosing who your promotion targets changes the result before you spend a single euro.

Average daily spend per golf tourist in Spain (€, excluding the golf course)

  • Ireland€653
  • Netherlands€461
  • Nordic countries€419
  • Germany€392
  • Spain average€352
  • United Kingdom€289
  • France€209

Source: Economic Impact of Golf in Spain (2024), table 7. 2022 data.

Our own data · Golf Intelligence

We have read 5,711 golf packages from 56 tour operators

Each package with its destination, nights, hotel and price, and a link to the tour operator page where it is sold. This is what you see when you put them together.

Which destinations tour operators sell (% of packages)

  • Andalusia24.3%
  • Gran Canaria16%
  • Algarve (Portugal)15.3%
  • Valencia region12.5%
  • Belek (Turkey)6.8%
  • Mallorca5%
  • Fuerteventura4.8%
  • Tenerife4.8%

Golf Intelligence (Stellaris Golf): 5,711 packages from 56 tour operators read on their websites between 23/06 and 24/08/2026 in Sweden, the UK, Norway, Germany-Austria-Switzerland, Finland, Denmark and France. Prices converted to euros.

Every market has its favourite destination

  • United Kingdom

    1,292 packages analysed

    Algarve

    47%

  • Norway

    1,082 packages analysed

    Gran Canaria

    38%

  • Germany, Austria and Switzerland

    544 packages analysed

    Belek (Turkey)

    38%

  • Denmark

    407 packages analysed

    Mallorca

    21%

  • France

    189 packages analysed

    Algarve

    20%

  • Sweden

    1,689 packages analysed

    Gran Canaria

    19%

Share of each market’s packages that go to that destination. Golf Intelligence (Stellaris Golf): 5,711 packages from 56 tour operators read on their websites between 23/06 and 24/08/2026 in Sweden, the UK, Norway, Germany-Austria-Switzerland, Finland, Denmark and France. Prices converted to euros.

7 nights

typical length of a golf package (median)

€1,634

typical price of a golf package (median)

€2,234

average package price in Gran Canaria, compared with €1,143 in the Algarve

71%

of the packages analysed are for Spanish destinations

Why we show you this

You can see this data for your destination

Which tour operators sell you, in which markets, at what price compared with your competitors, and how much each market spends. We show it to you with your own data, package by package.

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  • Every package links to the tour operator website where it is sold.
  • Official data is cited with its study, author and year.
  • If a figure cannot be checked, we do not publish it.