As someone who enjoys the travel threads and uses them for planning trips, I'd much prefer to keep them in the main off-topic forum. The value in those threads is based entirely on the number of people who see them and contribute. For example, the New York travel thread which has been active recently has gotten good contributions from members who live there/have previously lived there. If it was in a separate sub-forum there is a good chance those posters would never see the thread.
If anything I'd like to see a stickied thread somewhere that has links to previous discussions of various cities/countries - the search functionality on this forum is not the greatest. I know New York City has been discussed a few times (I actually did search for it a few months ago) as have other topics like the best way to get to Vancouver/Seattle. Maybe if those threads were easier to find it would reduce the number of active travel threads.
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