Those who criticize 'cheap travelers' may have also 'cheap traveled,' and it's important to protect 'cheap travelers'!
Young travel is inevitably associated with youth and the formative years, with college students or recent graduates as representatives. If you continue to travel cheaply in your forties, it’s a bit like disturbing the social order. At that time, you should have achieved some accomplishments and returned to society, not just casually using “cheap travel” to disrupt the society.
For students with no income or low income, cheap travel is a way for them to fulfill their dream of seeing the world, which is understandable. During cheap travel, they will use public transportation. We should take a relatively tolerant attitude towards this, as long as it does not harm public order or affect others, we should try to understand or support their behavior. Of course, cheap travelers should also be conscious of not interfering with others or violating public interests.
Cheap travel reminds us of several states: 1. There are some difficult hiking and cycling trips in China; some people really have no income, just want to see the world; 2. Like the hitchhikers on the Tibetan Plateau, some people have very low income but want to see the Holy Land; such travel is a kind of cheap travel; 3. Some people participate in group tours or take public transportation to travel, with little consumption, which is also a form of cheap travel.
Hitchhiking is a type of cheap travel.
Therefore, ‘cheap travel’ cannot be judged by the amount of expenditure—compared to those low-income hitchhikers, having a car for self-driving or participating in group tours, it’s considered having a fortune. However, in the face of higher-spending groups, the former becomes ‘cheap travelers.’ So cheap travel is relative. This also determines that no one can discriminate against cheap travelers, because everyone is ‘relatively cheap travelers’ in a sense.
Cheap travel will produce many subsequent effects, which cheap travelers must pay attention to. During cheap travel, there will be joy and embarrassment, and some embarrassing situations will occur. This is conceivable because cheap travel inevitably faces food, accommodation, transportation and even safety cannot be guaranteed. But this does not preclude the fact that cheap travelers’ mindset might be happy or satisfied. However, we don’t need to think of cheap travel as so beautiful, because in most cases, cheap travel is accompanied by loneliness and accompanied by unexpected and challenging situations. Their hearts are always hanging, and the current situation may not be so beautiful.
Hiking in the Huangpu Mountains is a ‘cheap travel’ paradise.
In the process of cheap travel, it is inevitable to ask others for help, and hitchhiking is common. Uh, at that time, they didn’t even check their ID cards when taking the train. As soon as they were caught by the train staff, they should say good words or help the train staff do some tasks in order to get forgiveness and understanding. They should remember that they cleaned the train carriage and wore a work armband to help catch thieves... These cheap travel experiences have made me deeply understand cheap travel today. I suggest that for college students with no money, our country’s public service system can take appropriate tolerant policies, encourage them to obtain transportation preferences through labor and service, which is a good idea.
If from a national public policy perspective, just like the government provides for low-income people, beggars, widows, orphans, disabled people, etc., in order to their basic human rights, the same should be applied to travelers who ‘cheap travel.’ Let them have basic food and clothing in their travel process, as long as they can ensure their basic personal safety and not be harmed. It is suggested that cities can build more youth hostel-like places to provide a relaxed environment for cheap travelers. In addition, it is suggested to increase the free opening of public parks, scenic areas and state-owned forest, geological and water conservancy parks, so that the travel routes of low-income people will not be restricted. Similarly, public transportation can also consider giving them discounts or preferential treatment based on policies and conditions.
Travel is a right for everyone.
If society is more tolerant and open, such as high-speed trains, trains, and even airplanes, they can provide employment opportunities through labor to allow ‘cheap travelers’ to obtain tickets or boat tickets in exchange for labor.
In 2015, in the Tajik Autonomous Region of South Xinjiang, Lao Qiao once encountered a cheap travel girl. She worked in a cafe called ‘Cloud Hostel’ in a place called ‘Cloud Hostel.’ She came to work here because she saw that the scenery was beautiful. She agreed with the boss to travel around the surrounding area as long as she was tired of playing here, she would go to the next station, and the boss could not stop her. She used the ‘money’ she earned to support her cheap travel, with the goal of traveling to Xinjiang, Qinghai and Tibet’s beautiful scenery.
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According to my understanding, this girl’s family situation is very good, she just chose this way to travel cheaply. Perhaps she is pursuing another kind of psychological satisfaction, the experiences in the journey.
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