Once again, EuroVelo will be present at Fitur – the
International Tourism Trade Fair in Madrid. Fitur 2015 brings good news for the
EuroVelo project given that the Spanish Ministry of Agriculture, Food and the
Environment will announce the official establishment of an EuroVelo National
Coordination Centr for Spain (NECC) with the support of many Spanish regionsand the National Cycling Organisation, ConBici.
The event will take place at the stand of ‘Caminos Naturales
and Parques Nacionales’ on Friday 30th January at 12:00. Mr. Antonio Flores,
Sub-director General of Rural Development at the Ministry of Agriculture, Food
and the Environment, Ms. Ilona Lelonek – Policy Officer at DG Enterprise
(European Commission) and Mr. Ádám Bodor – EuroVelo Director, will participate
in the presentation of the NECC for Spain. Please find the event program here.
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| Pabellón de Andalucía en Fitur 2015 (foto ECF) |
Last 15th of January, EuroVelo management team in Brussels
had the pleasure of attending a meeting in Madrid in which the Spanish Ministry
of Agriculture, Food and the Environment announced – to an audience that
included the representatives of the Spanish regions, ConBici (representing the
Spanish cyclist community) and Spanish Greenways – that the Spanish Government intended to
coordinate EuroVelo and include the Spanish regions and cycling organisations
in the NECC for Spain.
Over the last 14 months, the EuroVelo management team has
been working on the establishment of a coordination centre for EuroVelo in
Spain. Following a close coordinating effort that included all partners, the
first meeting took place at the Spanish Permanent Representation of Spain to
the EU in Brussels. Shortly after, the responsibility of organising and
overseeing the coordination meetings in Madrid was officially handed over to
the Spanish Government at FITUR 2014.
Spain has over 4,000km of EuroVelo routes (EuroVelo 1,
EuroVelo 3 and EuroVelo 8 pass through Spain). The Spanish public administrations
and cycling organisations are showing a strong commitment to the development of
EuroVelo and its coordination in Spain. With more than 60 million tourist
visiting Spain last year, it is the third most visited destination in the
world. According to a recent study, cycling tourism directly employed 524,052
people in Europe during 2014 (17,432 in
Spain); a figure which could rise to 869,927 (28,937 in Spain) if the ECF are
successful in their bid to double the modal share of cycling by 2020.
One thing is for sure, cycling is great opportunity for
employment and growth in Spain!
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