For mountain biking try Colombia Bike Junkies (colombianbikejunkies.com/) which has day trips and multi-day tours of the north east's hilly San Gil area, also good for rafting, staying at inns, enjoying coffee, unusual fruits and barbecues on the way.
Its three-day 'Onto the Trail' tour is designed for beginners and the price (£435) includes two nights' B&B in local inns.
There are spas and cycle-friendly inns to stay at, and the region's capital, Graz, has amazing architecture, including the Kunsthaus museum of modern art.
And the whole thing closes with a wonderful quote from a Holiday Inns (the company had yet to lose the plural) executive: "What we're trying to do here is finish the job that Henry Ford began.
But there was a time when the Holiday Inns and Howard Johnsons were newer, and the motel was a fresh take on an old idea: when you're travelling, it's nice to have somewhere comfortable where you can pay to stay.
Like Accor, HFS owns a number of hotel chains, including Ramada Inns, Howard Johnson and Travelodge, while CUC runs over 60 consumer clubs that, for an annual fee, offer their members cheaper access to products and services, from discount warehouses to films.
The inns at this time of year are filled with a mix of first-time riders hoping to catch a glimpse of the park's volcanic splendours and snowmobiling enthusiasts, whose profanity-laced pontifications about the latest makes and motors dominate the town's watering holes.But for years environmental groups have agitated to ban snowmobiles from the park.
Unlike most of his peers, who lived a comfortable colonial existence in Shanghai's international settlement, Crow reported on floods up the Yangzi, negotiated the release of hostages from a Shandong warlord and slept in inns so grim he would stand his bed legs in kerosene to keep centipedes at bay.
In Marylebone, north London, where property website Zoopla puts the average price of a two-bedroom home at £1.2m, the Swan & Edgar pub closed in 2013 when it was sold by Enterprise Inns to a developer who applied for planning permission to turn it into a single residence.
Tom Inns, the school's director, is unclear of its future role.
He believes a similar glut caused a decline in the American market, and fears that Britain could soon become a victim of its own success.The share price of Jongleurs' British franchise holder, Regent Inns, has recently fallen steeply.
