Diploma Thesis from the year 1999 in the subject Tourism, grade: 1,3, Nurtingen University (Unbekannt), language: English, abstract: Inhaltsangabe: Abstract: In the past years a lot of new kinds of sport' were discovered as a form of outdoor recreation. Today the traditional walker has to share the tracks with a lot of other user groups. At present shared tracks often lead to conflicts between the old' and the new' user groups. One of the new' groups is the Mountain Bike (MTB) group. Mountain biking seems to be the new wave sport of the nineties, but it all started in the early to mid 1970's...