What awaits you over the coming eleven months? Our 2020 calendar is already filled with major events: the EuroVelo team will be present at the ITB Berlin in March and the Velo-city conference in Ljubljana in June. Furthermore, two final project conferences will be held during the year for the Eur…
On Wednesday 19th February 2020, ECF organises, in cooperation with the Croatian National Tourism Board, a workshop with decision makers in Brussels on cycling tourism in the Mediterranean area.
EuroVelo will return to the Messe Berlin exhibition grounds for the 2020 edition of ITB Berlin, the world’s leading travel trade show! This year it will be held on 4-8 March, 2020. In cooperation with ADFC (German National Cyclists’ Association), the ECF EuroVelo Team will organise a Cycling Touris…
The end of the year is fast approaching, which provides a good opportunity to look back over what has been a successful year for EuroVelo. The launch of the new websites, the extension of the EuroVelo network and, for the first time, the inclusion of an entire EuroVelo route in the Council of Europ…
In the early days of November, the partners of the EuroVelo 1 – Atlantic Coast Route project “AtlanticOnBike” gathered in cold and sunny Scotland, on the shores of the famous Loch Lomond, for their fifth project meeting. The little town of Balloch, home to the tourist centre of the Loch Lomond and …
For the past three years, the Biking South Baltic! project has brought together partners from Poland, Germany and Denmark to develop the southern section of EuroVelo 10 – Baltic Sea Cycle Route. With the successful project drawing to a close at the end of the year, the lead partner organised a fin…
The third ECO-CICLE project meeting took place on 5-6 November 2019 at the University of Basilicata (UNIBAS) in Italy, an ideal venue to bring decision-makers, citizens and researchers together in order to initiate innovation and improvements of EU programme actions on cycling. Project partners had…
Partners along the Mediterranean gathered in Cyprus for the 6th Steering Committee meeting of the MEDCYCLETOUR project on 17-18 October. The different stakeholders reported on their activities accomplished over the preceding six months, with the completion of the Transnational Action Plan and the n…
If you are a regular visitor of the EuroVelo websites, you may have noticed a change on Friday 1st November: EuroVelo.org put on a new face and also changed its domain name to pro.EuroVelo.com!
In the framework of the EuroVelo 3 – Pilgrims Route project, the University of Central Lancashire has created a guide on how to encourage visitors to cycle to UNESCO cultural and heritage sites.
The 18-month COSME project aiming to develop EuroVelo 3 – Pilgrims Route came to an end last month and concluded with an instructive Final Conference in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, around the theme “Cycling and Cultural Tourism: the perfect match”. Santiago de Compostela marks the southern end …
Seven European countries, 5,400 km of cycle routes and 20 UNESCO sites. These are some of the things awaiting you along EuroVelo 3 – Pilgrims Route. For 18 months, 9 organisations from 6 of the countries worked hand in hand to further develop the route and to promote it. All of this was part of a…
From 4 -7 September 2019, the annual EUROBIKE trade show will take place in Friedrichshafen, Germany. In this year’s edition of the event, EuroVelo will join the discussions.
The latest user monitoring data from Austria shows that the popularity of EuroVelo 6 continues to rise. The figures are the latest confirmation that this section of the route – along the Austrian Danube Cycle Path – is one of the most popular cycle routes in Europe.
The EuroVelo Conference is the premier event of its class in Europe. Aiming to gather professionals from the tourism and cycling tourism sectors from around the world.
The EuroVelo 3 – Pilgrims Route Final Conference, ‘Cycling and Cultural Tourism: the perfect Match’, took place on 25th – 26th September 2019 in Santiago de Compostela (Spain).
New data from France shows that more cyclists are using the eight EuroVelo routes that cross the country than ever before.
The EuroVelo Media Pack comprises EuroVelo’s two primary communication and promotional tools: the EuroVelo Overview Map and the EuroVelo.com website. The launch of the brand new EuroVelo.com website and the upcoming release of the new EuroVelo Overview Map provide the ideal opportunity to advertise…
On Monday 24 June representatives of the National EuroVelo Coordination Centres and Coordinators’ (NECC/Cs) met in Dublin, Ireland to present best practices, exchange experiences and agree on some significant steps to continue the successful development of EuroVelo across the continent.
The website www.EuroVelo.com is the main cycle tourism web portal in Europe, with more than 5 million page views, 1 million new unique visitors in 2018 and an annual average growth of 20%. It is jam-packed with ideas and suggestions relating to cycling tourism in all European countries and each Eur…
The 30th anniversary of the fall of the Iron Curtain was commemorated by Czech and Austrian partners with an international bicycle ride on 8-11 May 2019. The event was organised by Czech National EuroVelo Coordinator, Partnerství o.p., in collaboration with Weinviertel Tourism. The partners cycled …
The 2019 National EuroVelo Coordination Centres and Coordinators Meeting took place in Dublin, Ireland, on June 24th 2019, just before the Velo-city Dublin.
On April 23rd – 24th 2019, project partners from the EuroVelo 3 – Pilgrims Route COSME project met in the small Danish town of Vejle to plan upcoming activities of the project.
The cycling world will be heading to Dublin for Velo-city 2019 on 25-28 June. EuroVelo will be there to present the latest developments in cycling tourism, including best practices from all over Europe and the launch of the brand-new EuroVelo web platform!
The MEDCYCLETOUR project partners met in Zadar, Croatia on 4-5 April 2019 for their 5th Steering Committee meeting. It was an opportunity for the partners to share the improvements being made along their sections of EuroVelo 8 – Mediterranean Route, particularly regarding promotion and marketing.
Following a seven-month application process, EuroVelo 13 – Iron Curtain Trail has joined the list of 38 Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe. This is the first time that an entire EuroVelo route has been recognised in this way!
The Changing Gear Workshop took place at the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Jelling in Denmark on 25 April 2019. This unique event looked at how cycling tourism can benefit cultural heritage. Various people involved in cultural heritage site management attended this free event.
Over 20 people of 11 different nationalities met in Jelling, Denmark on 25 April 2019 to participate in a workshop about promoting access to cultural and heritage sites by bicycle. Organised in the frame of the ongoing EuroVelo 3 – Pilgrims Route project, co-funded by the COSME Programme of the Eur…
A critical spot on the southern stretch of EuroVelo 6 – Atlantic-Black Sea east of Melk, Austria, has been improved, our National EuroVelo Coordinator in Austria, Radlobby, reports.
On 6-10 March, the EuroVelo team returned once again to the Messe Berlin exhibition grounds for the 2019 edition of ITB Berlin, the world’s leading travel trade show. This year was busier than normal: in addition to coordinating the Cycling Tourism Day and presenting the annual EuroVelo awards, we …