The impact of the Tour De France’s visit to Yorkshire next summer has been revealed at a meeting to help businesses and community groups to benefit.

Haworth’s Old Hall Inn hosted theroadshow yesterday by the Welcome to Yorkshire tourism group that will help bring the race to the county on July 5 and 6, 2014.

Along with Keighley, Oxenhope, Ilkley and Silsden, the village will be on the route of next year’s two- day Grand Depart.

The build up to the race will see a 100-day arts festival throughout the county starting on March 28, 2014, and ending the day before the Grand Depart.

At the meeting, the enormity of the race was made clear. During the race, nine helicopters will hover above the route to film the event.

So far more than 1,500 people have signed up to become “Le Tourmakers” – volunteers to help the race run smoothly. A total of 10,000 will likely be needed.

Businesses were given tips to appeal to the expected surge in foreign visitors, include providing information in other languages.

Restaurants were encouraged to create tour-themed menus, guest houses to provide bikes for visitors and shops and tourist attractions to extend opening times.

Commercial Director of Welcome to Yorkshire, Peter Dodd, said: “It is a myth that when the race comes through it lasts 30 seconds and then we all go home. There will be 7.5 kms of bikes and publicity vehicles to see. The average amount of time that something is going on on the route is three hours.”

A “publicity caravan,” a parade made up of race sponsors, will also travel the route, handing out free gifts along the way.

Mr Dodd said that Yorkshire’s local councils were supporting the event, adding: “They have signed up to the idea that no child should be deprived of a bike. We want every child to have cycle training and be given a cycle helmet.”

Meanwhile, al plan to encourage cycling across West Yorkshire, and build on the legacy of the Tour de France, is being drawn up. Transport authority Metro hopes to encourage more people to take to two wheels.

The authority is teaming up with councils to draw up a Cycle Plan including segregated paths.

But at a meeting of the West Yorkshire Integrated Transport Authority’s Passenger Consultative Committee, member Andrew Jewsbury said cyclists didn’t always want to be segregated.

But Metro said sharing paths could pose problems.