Adapting To A New Style

While the pandemic has prevented peoplefromtravelingafar，there'sasilverliningtothat dark cloud： micro- tourism， or mini- vacations.

Micro-tourism refers to short-distance travel in which people drive two or three hours to anearby destination and spend two or three days.Instead of requiring an elaborate plan and a lotof money， micro- tourismallows people to bemore flexible and is less expensive.

According to China Daily， micro- tourismbegan catching on seven or eight years ago， but ithas been increasingly popular since the COVID-19 pandemic. With the pandemic preventionandcontrol measures making long and distant tripsless convenient， more and more Chinese peoplechoose to take short trips instead.

Mark Hou from Beijing is one of them. Be-forethepandemic，the 28- year- oldpreferredtakinglong tripsabroador leaving Beijing tosee places of interests in other Chinese provinces. But the pandemic meant he had to adapt to anew travel style.

“Travelingalongdistancemeansyoushouldtakepublictransportation. Butthat

雖然因?yàn)樾鹿谝咔椋藗儫o(wú)法遠(yuǎn)游，但烏云之中還有一線希望：微旅行，或者叫微度假。（剩余2365字）