The Touratech Touring & Adventure Zone

   

The 2009 Touratech Touring and Adventure Zone offered visitors the opportunity to book or just enquire about biking overseas, whether taking your own bike or hiring one, the companies within this feature were keen to make sure your trip is memorable and your destination is unique. 

Companies within this area offered motorcycle tours to varying corners of the globe. Destinations included New Zealand, The US, Bhutan, Europe, Scotland, Spain and Peru to name just a few.

If you have never before considered a motorcycling holiday then a quick discussion with someone in this area woudl have been sure to get your mind racing to the possibilities available. Offering you the best roads and rides the world has to offer and pasionate guides to ensure that your trip is one to remember.

EUROPE

www.ridewithustours.co.uk
Ride with Us offer a ten day escorted tour to the Adriatic Coast using the overnight Motorail to transport your motorcycle to Austria and onwards via Slovenia to Porec in Croatia. This tour to eastern Europe will feature the Roman amphitheatre at Pula, the magnificent lakes at Plitvice National Park and a medieval banquet in a Balkan castle!

www.alpine-tt.com
Alpine TT will guide you through northern Spain into Portugal taking in the terraced splendor of the Douro valley, the hot springs at Chaves and an awesome ride through the Picos de Europa. An overnight ferry direct to Spain completes the package for this Alpine TT signature tour.

www.mcitours.com
MCi Tours will take you on a two centre, twelve day riding holiday to Corsica. It's a jewel of an island accessed by fast ferry from the south of France. Many roads take you through spectacular gorges and over red granite mountains rising from sea level to 8000ft in five miles - a sensational motorcycling experience!

FLY& RIDE

USA
www.hctravel.com
Check out the deals offered by UK travel agent H-C Travel for holidays in America and beyond...

SPAIN
www.cjball.com/tours
Norwich motorcycle dealer CJ Ball organise riding holidays using their own Transalp machines to explore Andalucia in southern Spain. Book a flight to Malaga over the winter period and ride from Ronda to Puerta Banus in the sunshine. Bike magazine rated it one of the best riding roads in Europe!

NEW ZEALAND  
www.vfrnewzealand.com
Ask Robin Hughes of VFR-NZ about bike hire in one of the most beautiful places on earth. Arrive in Christchurch and ride the whole of the South Island for truly the holiday of a lifetime on a hired VFR or Pan European motorcycle.

JAPAN
www.mcitours.com
MCi Tours have a comprehensive FlyRide programme to international destinations that include USA, Route 66, NZ and now JAPAN! Ride out on hired bikes from Tokyo and Nagasaki and experience the Shinkansen bullet train to Kyoto. Escorted throughout by Japanese outriders and a support vehicle with translator who will accompany the tour. Visit the country where your bike came from!

These are just some of the great destinations and riding holidays available for you in the Touring & Adventure Zone in Hall One. Go take a look!

Companies who exhibited in this Zone are:

Alpine TT
Bike Normandy
C J Ball
Compass Expeditions
Gasthof Hochalmspitze
Globebusters
Hadrian V-Twin Motorcycle Tours & Rentals
H C Travel
www.southafricamotorcycletours.co.uk
Hotel Enzian
Kaapstadmat Motorcycle Adventure Tours
The PARIS-DAKAR Challenge
MCi Tours
Ride With Us
ToursAreUs
USAMotorcycleholidays.com
VFR New Zealand