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Ahn Posted 18 years ago
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niche sites

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Just as the slow-food movement encouraged diners to savor meals and the way they are produced, the trend toward slow travel promotes a more thoughtful style of vacationing. It refers not only to leisurely and environmentally friendly modes of transport - train, boat, bike or foot - but also to the nature of the trips: smaller in scope and more off-the-beaten-path - a custom-crafted trek through niche sites rather than a top-10 group tour. It generally entails quieter, more intimate accommodations - homey boutique hotels or upscale apartment swaps.

What does 'niche sites' refer to here? Sites only for a particular group?

And what does 'swaps' mean in the last sentence?
  

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specialized places, places with a special personality/character/air Perhaps: I travel and stay at your appartment, you travel and stay at my appartment (instead of hotels)

  • specialized places, places with a special personality/character/air Perhaps: I travel and stay at your appartment, you travel and stay at my appartment (instead of hotels)
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specialized places, places with a special personality/character/air

Perhaps:
I travel and stay at your appartment, you travel and stay at my appartment
(instead of hotels)
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My try:

- niche sites: places not famous, and for this reason visited (and maybe known) only by a small number of people. Not common holiday destinations.
- swaps: exchanges: slow-travel holidaymakers make use of intimate accommodations instead of luxury ones

You'd better wait for a native, though!
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Thank you for your answers.

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