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4 May 2008, 00:00

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The tourist organisation of Gelderland/Overijssel of the Netherlands (Gelders Overijssels Bureau voor Toerisme or GOBT) came up with some remarkable conclusions about walking in their region Twente:

  • most of their visitors walk the whole year through
  • on average, they are 55 years old
  • 75% of the people (from the survey) wanted to download routes from a website
  • 36% is interested in having the walks as a GPS solution


(source: Persbericht 24 april 2008 GOBT)
Wandelingen en wandeltochten in Twente
Bron foto: Pascal Brackman

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