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Adventure travel has become all-encompassing. “There is no one age target now, as age does not define this type of travel experience,” said Cece Drummond, managing director of Destinations & Experiences for Virtuoso. According to Shannon Stowell, president of Adventure Travel Trade Association (ATTA), the adventure travel category has risen from relative obscurity, with at least 80 percent of tourism boards now recognizing adventure as its own travel niche. “Adventure is moving toward the mainstream, and the mainstream is moving toward adventure,” Stowell said. The legitimization of adventure travel — which encompasses physical activity, a connection to nature and immersive cultural experiences — is due in large part to the increase in demand for it. Contributing factors include the rise in the activity levels of baby boomers, the proliferation of vacationers sharing brag-worthy adventures across social media, the softening of many types of adventure travel excursions by innovative tour operators and the growing ability to customize everything from trips to gear. Following are some of the most interesting forecasts from adventure travel experts predicted to occur within the coming year and beyond. Read more at TravelAge West. 
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Read more at TravelAge West. There’s something about buying your lunch from a truck that just makes it taste better. Maybe it’s the strange allure of ordering kimchi quesadillas from a moving vehicle or maybe it’s the fact that you get a nice excuse to slip out of the office and stand outside in the actual sun while waiting for your pork belly sliders to finish. Whatever it is, there’s something about food trucks that will immediately pique my attention. On the long, long drive to my internship, I’ll pass many on the way to Los Angeles and wonder which ones will pop up in front of my internship, sending a few stray prayers out to the universe for the lobster roll truck.
Read more at The Billfold. The main draw to Donner Memorial State Park in Truckee, Calif., is, of course, to see the site of the Donner Party’s ultimate failure. The park plays the attraction up, especially with its new visitor center, where guests can learn just how these early pioneers managed to mess up so badly. (Spoiler alert: They took a shortcut they weren’t supposed to.)
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