Cycle Tourism is a growing market with considerable opportunities for regional economies. It has a number of key segments:
- Cycling Holidays: touring cycling is the main purpose of the holiday
- Holiday Cycling: recreational cycling is undertaken as an activity while on holiday
- Cycling Day Visits: trips from home to places outside a person’s usual place of residence
- Cycling Events: this may involve: direct participation, mass participation, or spectator participation events
Cycle tourism has multiple benefits including:
- boosting domestic and inbound tourism
- providing ecological sustainable tourism
- encouraging the economic revitalisation of regional Australia
- enhancing the infrastructure of local communities and its potential to encourage healthy activities.
Some studies on the economic benefit of cycle tourism are listed under Research.