The Galician Tourism Agency celebrates World Tourism Day 2023 by promoting the Galician Eurovelo Network

The Galician Tourism Agency celebrates World Tourism Day 2023 by promoting the Galician Eurovelo Network

  • The secretary of the Galician Tourism Cluster, César Sánchez-Ballesteros, will be present at the event, which will take place on September 27 in A Guarda.

 

Next Wednesday, September 27, World Tourism Day is celebrated under the motto ‘Green Tourism and Investments’. Within the framework of this celebration, in which the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) invites everyone to join by investing in people, the planet and prosperity, various events will take place. initiatives and activities in the international community.

 

Within the framework of this commemoration, the Galician Tourism Agency will celebrate this World Tourism Day with a day in which it will present the current and future state of the Eurovelo Network in Galicia, a program framed in the sustainable development strategy of the Galician community.

 

The Eurovelo Network is a network of long-distance cycling routes that connect the European continent. This is a project of the European Cyclists’ Federation (ECF) that has already promoted the opening of 17 long-distance routes that link 42 European countries along more than 90,000 kilometers of routes.

 

The director of the Galician Tourism Agency, Xosé Manuel Merelles, will participate in the event, and the secretary of the Galician Tourism Cluster, César Sánchez-Ballesteros, will be present. This will take place on Wednesday, September 27, at 11:00 a.m., at the As Loucenzas viewpoint of the Concello de A Guarda. At the end of the event, a section of the Eurovelo EV1 route, known as the Atlantic Coast Route, will be done by electric bicycle-