After decades in which the (0) HURRIED (HURRY) package holiday dominated the market, a quieter movement has taken root among travellers who have grown weary of ticking sights off a list. Advocates of 'slow travel' favour 1DESTINE that reward lingering over those that merely photograph well, and they speak with something approaching reverence about the 2AUTHENTIC of experiences found well off the beaten track. A week spent in one village, they argue, yields richer 3ENCOUNTER with local life than a fortnight of restless movement ever could. Operators have responded with 4IMMERSE programmes in which guests learn a craft, a dialect or a cuisine under the patient tuition of a resident host. The 5COMMIT required are not trivial: time, patience and a willingness to do without the usual tourist comforts. Yet the 6AFFORD of such trips, once considered their principal obstacle, has improved markedly as smaller operators enter the market. Part of the appeal lies in the renewed 7ANTICIPATE that slow travel permits, the pleasure of reading and planning in the months before departure. Most of all, the movement cultivates the kind of 8APPRECIATE for place that a hurried itinerary simply cannot accommodate.