Event recap · CycleSummit 2018

Arnhem

6–9 October 2018 · Veluwe (NL)

Where business relations become friendships.

The 9th CycleSummit brought the international cycling travel community to the Veluwe – voted the finest area of scenic beauty in the Netherlands, with forests, heathland and sand drifts, Hanseatic towns, Paleis Het Loo and the Kröller-Müller Museum with the second-largest Van Gogh collection in the world.

Together with VisitVeluwe and Dutch Biketours, the summit combined a cycling day through the National Park Hoge Veluwe and Nijmegen, an evening with the regional partners, a dinner at Doorwerth Castle and two marketplace days at Hotel Bilderberg in Oosterbeek.

When

Sat 6 – Tue 9 October 2018

Marketplace

Hotel Bilderberg, Oosterbeek

Participants

62 companies

Host

VisitVeluwe

Day by day

Heathland, Van Gogh and Dutch wine.

Saturday · Oct

Arrival and Dudok

Participants arrived by train from Amsterdam Schiphol, were picked up in Arnhem and met for a walking tour through the city and dinner at Restaurant Dudok.

Sunday · Oct

Cycling the Hoge Veluwe

A bus took the group to Ede, where the bikes were waiting for a ride along the National Park Hoge Veluwe to the Kröller-Müller Museum and a special Van Gogh lunch.

Sunday afternoon

Nijmegen and Groesbeek

The second part of the tour led 18 km from Ressen through the city of Nijmegen to the wine village of Groesbeek for a tasting of Dutch wines and cheese.

Sunday evening

Meeting the regional partners

Back at Hotel Bilderberg about ten regional organisations presented their services in elevator pitches, followed by drinks and a buffet dinner hosted by the Veluwe.

Monday · Oct

Marketplace day 1 and Doorwerth Castle

After the opening ceremony and keynotes on the Dutch cycling network by the Dutch Cycling Platform and Routebureau Veluwe, and a presentation of tourism in Gelderland, the marketplace opened. In the evening an aperitif by VisitVeluwe and dinner at Doorwerth Castle.

Tuesday · Oct

Marketplace day 2

The second marketplace day, lunch in “Julia’s Kitchen” – and the end of CycleSummit 2018, followed by one-day FamTrips through different parts of Holland.

The host region

The Veluwe, one hour from Amsterdam.

Forests, sand drifts, lichen steppes and heathland where you can spot the Dutch “Big Five” – and around them Arnhem, Nijmegen, the Hanseatic towns of Harderwijk, Elburg and Hattem, the Veluwezoom National Park and the river landscapes of the Rhine. The region is also part of the Liberation Route Europe.

Host