Dutch speedskating tradition, protected by Travel Organization Holland =

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The Eleven-Cities speedskating tour - in Friesland, the north of the Netherlands - has only taken place fifteen times. Mostly because the Dutch winters do not permit skating on natural ice every year. Temperatures are rising because of Global Warming. Will their ever be another Eleven-Cities speedskating tour?

Travel Organization Holland = protects the Dutch Speedskating tradition with their ‘Fryslân Ice skating’ event-tour on the 8th of January 2009.

Friesland, The Netherlands, December 14, 2008 -- The first Eleven-Cities speedskating tour -in Friesland, the north of the Netherlands- was held in 1909. The last one-hundred years, this outdoor skating event has taken place 15 times. The tour is not held each year, mostly because the Dutch winters do not permit skating on natural ice every year.
Because of Global Warming, temperatures are rising. The Dutch climate has an increase of the coldest temperature in each year by 0.9 degrees Centigrade, which have already led to several statistically significant impacts. Over the course of the 20th century the chance on an 'Elfstedentocht', an outdoor skating event in the Netherlands, has decreased from once every five years to once every ten years. Will the increase of temperature establish the diminishing likelihood of outdoor skating in the Netherlands?

“Although we are not capable of stopping the climate to change. We can protect the Dutch speedskating tradition.” Says Stefka Waaijer, Director of Travel Organization Holland =.

Travel Organization Holland = offers the ‘Fryslân skating tradition’ event-tour on January 8th, 2009. During this tour in Friesland -of 2 days and 1 night- the history of the Eleven-Cities speedskating tour will revive, including the special, brotherly, party atmosphere that surrounds Dutch Speedskating Events as the European Allround Championships.
Climate temperatures may rise. If there ever will be another outdoor Eleven-Cities speedskating tour, we do not know. But the Dutch speedskating tradition will be protected by tours like the Fryslân skating tradition’ event of Travel Organization Holland =. Where history revives and you can still experience the party atmosphere that surrounds Dutch Speedskating Events.

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