What is immersion travel?

What is immersion travel, anyway?!?!

Good question. And one you can help us answer. You see, immersion travel means different things to different people: cultural immersion travel, eco/immersion travel, language immersion travel, extreme adventure travel, etc. It's most often a reference to how engaged you become during your travel experience, how authentic your travel experience is. If you frequent online travel communities, you hear more and more talk about real people sharing real experiences. This yearning for authenticity is at the core of the immersion travel movement. It's a quest for authentic, engaging encounters with the world that transport you out of the quotidian and into the unfamiliar. Into vivid, stimulating, essential living. It's about breaking away from the pack, wandering beyond the margins imposed by habit, custom and convenience long enough to see the world a little bit differently. Robert Frost's assurance that "taking the road less traveled by" makes all the difference is perhaps the most familiar invitation to immersion travel...