Bicycle or cycling tourism refers to „travel between places by bicycle for leisure
purposes, and where the act of cycling is an integral part of the tourist experience“
(Millington 2013). Sustrans (1999) defined it as “recreational visits, either overnight or
day visits away from home, which involve leisure cycling as a fundamental and
significant part of the visit.” Addressing many of the definitions (Simonsen, Jorgensen
i Robbins 1998; Ritchie 1998; Sustrans 1999; Lumsdon 2000; Lamont 2009;
Marcussen 2009; and other) one is able to argue that it is not so much the width of the
definition that could be an issue, rather it is a set of criteria that would enable unified
(and comparable) statistical data for the purpose of determining the value and the size
of the cycling tourist market