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The journey is the reward.
This is especially true for a leisure cycling holiday when regional and culinary highlights can be explored at your own pace and close to the action. Every time you push the pedal, everyday life moves a little further away and activity turns into relaxation.
Velontour knows the best destinations for cycling tours in Austria, Germany, Italy and Switzerland. We provide bicycle enthusiasts with comprehensive information on exciting cycle tracks, high-quality accommodation and quality-tested tour operators. This is the first platform where everything revolves around the topic of leisure cycling holidays and regional cuisine.
Shift down or up a few gears on holiday – it’s up to you. In any case, the momentum comes from Velontour and ensures that the many impressions created while riding your bike turn into lasting memories.
Enjoy your next leisure cycling holiday!
Your Velontour Team
MTS Austria
Product development, marketing, consulting, mailing.
Top support and successful connections guaranteed.
MTS Austria, the specialist for cycle tourism at home and abroad, is not only the founder and manager of the internationally successful service-providing groups “Mountain Bike Holidays” (since 1997) and “Roadbike Holidays” (since 2008), but also the inventor and implementer of BikeWorld Leogang. Whether developing bookable packages, quality controls or the development and implementation of new bike destinations, the company is also the place to go for advice on all aspects of cycle tourism in its various forms. Currently, 180 hotels and 56 tourist regions in seven countries are supported by around 30 employees of MTS.
G.A.Service
The full-service agency offers the complete portfolio of advertising.
Idea; conception, strategic consulting, marketing consulting, graphic design, photography, web design and programming, video production, public relations, printing and mailing workshop for mailouts. For this, the agency utilises its 60 employees as well as partners in the areas of web, PR and film. This group calls itself GAS specialists and perfectly complements the high-quality full service. G.A.S. has been in charge of the “Hotels vom Feinsten” marketing cooperation for eight years. With around 1,000 renowned customers from the construction, food, fashion, sports goods and tourism sectors (Liebherr, Porsche, Audi, Bayerwald, Amer Sports, Schladming Dachstein, Grimming Therme, Hotel Höflehner, My Arbor, Tratterhof, etc), the agency has – over the past 14 years – acquired all the prerequisites to implement marketing for the special requirements of its customers.
Velontour destinations
in Austria, Germany, Switzerland and Italy
Explore the world of Velontour on your bike. Whether on e-bike or trekking bike – it doesn’t matter. Get to know the landscape, the people, the culture and the culinary delights of the destinations during a bike tour. Gather special moments, extraordinary experiences and unforgettable memories.
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See. Feel. Taste. Explore the world of Velontour with all your senses.
Try delicious recipes from our culinary regions. Get to know the country and
people at traditional festivals and celebrations. Or discover very special programmes for an enjoyable cycling holiday.
Velontour combines activity with pleasure, bringing you close to landscapes and their nature. A multifaceted cycling holiday is on the agenda.
Leisure experts
The region’s biggest and sweetest treat is the Wiesener “strawberry”. The wonderful scent of the sun-ripened fruits and the sparkling Rosalia Frizzante rosé make your mouth water. If it were not a strawberry, you would have to address it like royalty.
Culture meets culinary delights
AustriaBurgenland, Rosalia Lake Neufelder See
When preparing his dishes, Toque-chef Michael Lohr places particular emphasis on regionality and seasonal products.
Knappenwirt – modern cuisine meets Styrian home cooking
, Murau
Yellow, red, blue, dotted, small, large, round and oblong, waxy and floury anyway – potato varieties are like stars in the sky. For Hans Moser and Andrea, this is always an incentive to cultivate unusual “newcomers” in addition to popular standard varieties here in Salzburg’s Lungau region every year.
Lungau potatoes
, Salzburger Lungau Katschberg
The cheese dairy offers visitors the opportunity to look over the shoulders of the cheesemakers as they produce 25 different types of cheese. The different products can be sampled in the adjacent bistro.
Alpine dairy Three Peaks – cheese factory
, Niederdorf – 3 Zinnen
Free range eggs, handmade spelt pasta, homemade cheese, honey as well as seasonal products such as apples and homemade spreads characterise Maria Riepertinger’s Wastlhof farm. Best of all, the farm is located on the “Direct Marketers Bike Route in Prien”.
Wastlhof – Maria Riepertinger
GermanyBavaria, Chiemsee-Alpenland
The Schilcherland Styria is a Garden of Eden and hub of culinary powerhouses that can be experienced up close on the 40 km long Schilcher Wine Route.
The Schilcher
AustriaStyria, Schilcherland Steiermark
Specialities from Grey cattle, ham from the water buffalo or bacon and spreads from the Mangalica pig as well as fresh bread from the local baker.
Culinary delights at Lake Neusiedl
, Lake NeusiedlBurgenland
Every year at the end of September you can sample, buy and enjoy the best products and discover the taste of the region at the traditional Schmatz in Tatz gourmet market. Sampling the best wines, chatting with friends and experiencing living traditions – all under the motto “Slow down and relax”.
Schmatz in Tatz – regional gourmet market
, Southern Burgenland
Exclusively using natural hops, the specially developed method of open fermentation and the particularly long fermentation time according to the Slow Brewing philosophy make Trumer Pils a top representative of its genre.
Trumer Private Brewery
, Salzburger Seenland
In my bag I have a surprise for leisure cyclists – a regional snack and a good Styrian wine. I won’t say when and where I show up with my picnic hamper.
BIKE-butler Seppi Gombocz
, Bad Radkersburg
Chef Stefan Csar serves extraordinary regional 3-Toque cuisine on international level. The icing on the cake of every visit to the Ratschen restaurant are the unconventional Wachter Wiesler wines.
Ratschen restaurant
, Southern Burgenland
The whitefish innkeepers at Lake Millstatt do what their ancestors used to do: Every day they take the whitefish from the floating nets and process it straightaway. What the emperor used to enjoyed is still considered a delicacy today.
Whitefish innkeepers at Lake Millstatt
, Lake Millstatt
