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Cyclism and Tourism

4/9/2016

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You might be route cyclism followers (¿?), and sport might be important for sustainability in tourism... I want to share with you that current leader of Vuelta a España (#LaVuelta #LV2016) is Nairo Quintana (#NairoQuintana), from Colombia, born just 60 km from our region in the Boyacá state, and he includes our province Sugamuxi with its frequent and hard hills ranging between 2500 and 3500m high on the Andes, as part of his training agenda. So as he does it and loves it, you also might wish to come and Visit Sugamuxi one of these days, to discover and discuss how sport/cyclism can provide a strong interest for indivisuals and teams willing to gain strenght in some lucky areas of our planet, fortunate enough to build up advantage in top-quaility training for competitions.

In our case it's not just nature, but also culturally cyclism has been well linked to our people (and Sugamuxi/Boyacá are among a very few zones in Colombia -three or four more- where this has happened for many years).

With that being said, our binomium (i) nature/culture -tropical country, traditions, Andes, Boyacá, Sugamuxi, and mild weather- and (ii) cyclism, has proben to be strong enough to be shown as a worldwide highlight, for certain activities and groups of people.

It makes me think of a question that may potentially develop an interesting and helpful list of attention inside Green and/or Sustainable Destinations for certain tourism and other type of green/sustainable activities: ¿What nature/culture in your destination connects best with, to produce a worldwide highlight binomium (e.g. in sports, arts)?

Oh, by the way... Nairo has won quite a good number of international competitions (and many more cyclists from our region are constantly close to top qualified), no wonder one of his "secrets" is the region where he trains, close to the clouds like our #LakeTota or lake in the clouds at 3015m high (see: Lake Tota overview).

Felipe Velasco
VisitSugamuxi
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Photo: Nairo Quintana, today. Source: Revista Mundo Ciclistico.

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