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To give you an impression of the size of the german cycling tourism market we present some numbers:

• - 20 million german travellers use their bike as activity during their holidays
• - 6 million of them cycled often or very often during their holidays
• - 220,000 cyclists surrounded Lake Constance on their bikes in an average of 5.5 days. This makes Lake Constance to the world's most frequented bike path
• - 145,000 cyclists went along the Elbe river in an average of nine days-
• - For 08, 09 and 2010 1.6 million germans wanted to go on an explicit cycling holiday
• - An estimated 150,000 german speaking cyclists booked a cycling holiday through an operator in 2008
• - Five cycling tour operators have more than 10,000 customers in Germany and Austria
• - About 5% of all bicycle tourist are customers of a tour operator, 95% cycle individually
• - The combined turnaround of bicycle tourism in Germany exceeds 1 billion Euro
• - The european market of cycling tour operators has a high rate of cooperations. A typical operator organizes their own tours in their home region but sells most tours of most of their competitors, too. This makes every operator appear as operating tours all over Europe. And in the eyes of the customer the market seems highly professionalized.