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Shifts in consumer preferences and their booking habits combined with changes in businesses' current and future marketing strategies reflect a quickly adapting adventure travel community, according to the Adventure Travel Trade Association's "Industry Snapshot". Tour operators from North America participated in the survey, and combined represent approximately 1.3 million adventure travel customers.

"While the adventure travel industry is not immune to the situation, our members appear to be weathering the storm better than some of the more mass tourism entities," said ATTA President Shannon Stowell. Reflecting resilience in the adventure travel sector, 22 percent of the responding adventure travel tour operators anticipate an increase in bookings. Adventure companies also report a slight surge in demand for family adventure travel options. In terms of traveler destination preferences, closer-to-home options also continue to climb.

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You can enjoy an adventure travel tour in Indonesia this summer where you will be able to experience kayaking and Komodo dragon expeditions with Pioneer Expeditions' 10-day trip. Highlights include a visit to the famous Komodo Park, where you will be able to paddle in the waters off some of Indonesia's most remote beaches and snorkel on coral reefs.

All accommodations, meals and domestic transport are included. Another hot destination for summer is Romania, where you can explore it's beautiful natural landscapes with Wild Frontiers's "Walking Along the Enchanted Way" tour. The walk begins in the foothills of the Guati Mountains and takes in the village of Breb, the hill of Maramures, Iza Valley and the highlands of Rodna Mountains National Park. You will travel past landscapes filled with wooden churches, monasteries, forests and remote Saxon villages that still exude a memory of feudal Europe.

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Ohio will present tourists with a multitude of adventure travel options this May, says the Ohio Tourism Division.

The 'African Elephant Crossing', resembling the African savannas, opens on 5 May at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo. The adventure travel takes visitors through a naturalistic five-acre habitat with two extensive ranges, deep ponds, a waterfall and mud wallow for ten elephants.

Hocking Hills' Canopy Zipline Night Flight offers a two-hour nocturnal adventure travel in Rockbridge every Fridays and Saturdays from May onwards. Visitors will come in contact with sounds, smells and creatures of the night, then zip away into the darkness of the sky.

'Dinosaurs Alive!' offers an adventure travel experience in the Jurassic forest at Kings Island. Opening on 26 May, it has the world's largest animatronic dinosaur, the Ruyang Yellow River dinosaur in it. 'Dinosaurs Alive!' also includes a paleontological dig site for kids, where they can unearth prehistoric fossils.

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