The business of doing nothing: Inside the rise of quiet travel

A record 888 million people traveled across China during the 2025 National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival holiday. Not all of them wanted to see anything.

Across the country, a different kind of trip is emerging within China's massive tourism market – hot springs, countryside stays and itineraries built around doing less, not more. It's not replacing mass tourism. It's growing within it.

Rest can be designed. Silence can be packaged. But when it has to be booked and paid for, who gets to stop?

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