Parallel session 1.2
Understanding the diversity of cycling tourists
📆 Tuesday 24 September
🕑 11:15-12:45
📍 Main hall
🎤 Panel discussion
Cycling is diverse, and cyclists are diverse: getting a good picture of who they are, their evolving needs and preferences ensures that cycling investments are correctly targeted, that the quality of infrastructure, services and tourism products matches the needs and expectations. Thanks to national and international experts and their research, professionals will be sure to find the right strategies to put more people on a bicycle.
Adrian Garcia-Thorp 🇫🇷
Consultant
Inddigo
Adrian Garcia is a transport planning consultant based in Nantes. He has worked on several business cases for cycle schemes in the UK with his previous employer. Since joining Inddigo in 2021, he has been involved in all the recent economic appraisals undertaken in France using the Eva Velo method.
Michael Maier 🇩🇪
Tourism Officer
ADFC
Since 2020, Michael Maier works for the German Cyclists’ Association (ADFC). In his position as Bicycle Tourism Officer, he is among other responsible for ADFC's touristic quality certificates: ADFC Quality Routes and ADFC Bicycle Travel Regions.
Katharina Köglberger 🇦🇹
Co-founder and CEO
cyclebee GmbH
Katharina Köglberger is co-founder and CEO of the Austrian-based Start Up cyclebee. Our mission is to simplify cycle travelling by providing digital solutions for cyclists and supporting our partners in tourism and public transport to improve their services. Katharina is an enthusiastic cycle traveller and project manager.
Agathe Daudibon
EuroVelo and Cycling Tourism Director
European Cyclists' Federation
Agathe Daudibon joined ECF in August 2022. She is in charge of the transnational coordination of the European cycle route network together with the dedicated team that she is leading and contributing to ECF's goal for more and better cycling with development, promotion and advocacy activities. Before that, she has worked in projects management related to cycling and cycling tourism for 10 years in France. Between 2016 and 2021, she was mainly responsible for cycling itinerary projects, including national EuroVelo routes, and cycling tourism topics at Velo & Territoires. She then joined the Cerema – a French governmental expertise centre – working on the AVELO 2 program, which aims to support cycling policies in rural and interurban areas.