China News Agency, Shijiazhuang, March 26th: "Urban Camping Opens "Micro Vacation": What do young people want to play this year?
Author Zhao Danmei
Holidays cannot be spent at home all the time, and traditional entertainment activities such as shopping and singing lack freshness. Even if the hot script is killed, sitting together will be complained by netizens that it is too much like a meeting.
As a result, as the Tomb-sweeping Day holiday is approaching, many young people begin to plan "micro-vacations"...
"You can meet many like-minded friends and experience different styles of tents." Ms. Zhang, the "post-90s" owner of Shijiazhuang Wild Camping Collection Store, said that they mainly focus on offline experience of urban camping, which requires a lot of professional equipment compared to wild camping. , remote destinations and other issues, urban camping can allow customers to come "empty-handed" and enjoy the same fun as wild camping.
Under the background of the normalization of the prevention and control of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, in the "micro-vacation" that takes the local as the center and carries out leisure and vacation activities within 3 days, urban camping has the advantages of relatively simple equipment and the ability to obtain outdoor experience without long-distance travel. , and gradually entered the public eye.
As a practitioner, Ms. Zhang said that no matter what form of camping, the core of camping is to get in touch with nature and enjoy the moment, so that people can relax in the tense pace of life.
A wide lawn located in the High-tech Zone of Shijiazhuang City is dubbed "Hulunbuir Prairie Shijiazhuang Branch" by netizens.
On sunny days on weekends, local people like to pitch tents here in groups of three or five.
Wang Jiayu, who is engaged in the construction industry, is also one of them. She said that when she first arrived in Shijiazhuang, she did not want to stay at home alone on holidays. It is better to bring pets to the lawn for camping and picnics to start a "micro vacation".
Open a social platform that a young person likes, and there are over 890,000 notes about camping.
In September 2021, Taobao and the social app "Soul" released the "2021 Generation Z Camping Social White Paper", which mentioned that camping surpassed escape room and script killing became the favorite of "post-95s".
Through camping, young people can communicate sincerely in a stress-free environment, and then build high-quality social relationships.
Not only that, the "2021 "Micro Vacation" Popularity Report released by the Mafengwo travel platform shows that camping has become the most popular "micro vacation" gameplay in 2021, and the resulting "camping + paddle yoga" "cave camping + adventure" The gameplay is also very popular.
In particular, skiing has jumped to the top of the list of popular sports favored by the "micro-vacation" crowd, driven by the Beijing Winter Olympics.
"As the Tomb-sweeping Day holiday is approaching, many people come to inquire about short-distance travel." Jiang Jingxian, a staff member of a travel agency in Shijiazhuang City, said that the overseas travel business has been affected by the global new crown pneumonia epidemic, which has prompted a significant increase in the demand for domestic short-distance travel.
When travel is brought back from afar to mid- and short-range weekend tours and surrounding tours, many old places have also given birth to new ways of playing.
Jiang Jingxian said that in addition to actively helping local tourists to explore familiar old places, many cities have also cooperated with businesses to develop new ways of playing, such as creating a "homestay cluster + pulp board yoga + sailing experience", and supporting a variety of leisure experience formats based on accommodation; There is also the method of "country house + rural experience activities", allowing "shared farms" to activate "hollow villages".
"Instead of buying thousands of clothes, we are more willing to spend for spiritual life." Wang Jiayu, who plans to drive to a hot spring resort town with friends during the Qingming holiday this year, said that young people are constantly trying to knock on the "door" of interesting life. .
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