Vacationers traditionally like to make use of every second of the day, People rush from site to site, eat all day, and feel tired at last. And when they get to their hotel room at night, they find it hard to sleep. Noisy traffic and flashing city lights aside, many people simply don’t sleep well when they’re away from their own bed. Fortunately, sleep tourism addresses these issues and more.

In order to help them sleep well, special sleep suites (套房) have been thoughtfully designed to offer quiet and darkness. Hotels are investing in artificial intelligence mattresses (床垫) that control climate and have cushions to relieve pressure points. The mattresses can also track sleep statistics and offer vacationers feedback on their sleep patterns.

Some feel that these sleep suites are a result of the problem that many people suffered from a loss of good sleep. “There has been heightened attention to sleep during that time, and likely, because so many people have struggled with this. Now, I think there’s just been a huge shift in our awareness and prioritization on wellness and wellbeing,” said sleep researcher Dr. Robbins.

Sleep suites are a huge advance in tourism and are now found in wellness hotels worldwide. Each offers different ways of helping tour its sleep. Many provide a menu of relaxing teas and a comfortable bed. You can even devote your trip to sleep wellness. Some spa hotels offer a lounger with headphones and mask, and energy healing.

No matter which sleep suite you choose, the goal is to sleep well so you can improve your health and wellbeing. Sinking into a comfortable bed should be the best part of a trip! The hope is that more hotels adapt to this wellness trend and return to the original purpose of a hotel room, which is sleep! Now you can tour around by day and have sweet dreams by night.

We took a rare family road trip to the Adirondacks in late August，and it was as refreshing and exhausting as family vacations tend to be. Toward the end of our long drive home, even the kids were leaning forward in their seats urging my lead foot on. At that point in a road trip，even sixty-five miles per hour feels slow. We have become numb to our speed and numb to the road signs flashing by.

My family lives on the edge of Lancaster County. Only thirty miles from home，I hit the brakes，and we began to roll，slowly，behind a horse-drawn carriage. We began to open our eyes again. We saw familiar green hills and the farm with the best watermelons. I rolled down the windows, and we breathed again. Just-cut hay and a barn full of dairy cattle．

At five miles per hour，you remember what you forget at sixty-five. You are thinking about a place，even when you are moving from place to place．

I am a placemaker. A homemaker, too. I am a mother of a young kid at home，and also a writer and a gardener. But，for me，those roles are wrapped up with the one big thing I want to do with the rest of my life：I want to cultivate a place and share it with others．

The place I make with my family is a red-brick farmhouse built in l880. It has quite a few nineteenth-century bedrooms and a few acres of land，and we love nothing more than to fill them with neighbors and friends. We grow vegetables and flowers，keep a baker’s dozen of egg—laying chickens，and，since we moved in three years ago，we have planted many，many trees．

Living with my life’s purpose does not allow for much travel. I need to be here，feeding the chickens and watering the tomatoes. Any extra in the budget，and we spend it on trees．

But I learned something at the end of our family road trip. Travel can help me in the task of caring for my own place. When I slow down and pay attention to the road between here and there，travel tells me the connections between my place and all the other places.

Shuikou village, in East China’s Zhejiang province, is home to 10,000 residents, and about 30 percent of them are engaged in the homestay business. The village has developed into one of the major rural tourism destinations in the Yangtze River Delta (三角洲) region over the years.

As cross-provincial tourism has resumed nationwide, locals in Shuikou are back in business and looking forward to a full recovery of the local tourism industry.

Homestay owner Zheng Yunfang has been busy answering customers’ calls, taking down their information, while checking the booking status of her hostelry (旅馆) since early August. “Our 18 guest rooms were fully booked over the past few weeks, and we’ve received bookings up to November,” says Zheng, who runs Ziming Mountain Villa (别墅) in Shuikou. Most of her guests have been to her place before, and they often bring in new guests during their visits. “By the look of things, business shouldn’t be a problem in the second half of the year.”

Just walking distance away from Zheng’s villa, another local homestay owner, Song Chaofeng, has begun receiving visitors as well. He is starting to harvest the reward of an earlier promotion of his homestay on the short-video app Douyin, also known as TikTok.

As an experiment, Song made a video featuring local food and landscapes earlier this year and uploaded it online after a bit of simple editing. “It was a total surprise that several thousand people watched it the next day.”

Tourist Qi Jia, from Shanghai, recently visited Song’s place with her family after flipping (翻转) through Song’s Douyin account. “My child loves playing table tennis here, and my parents love the distinctive rural-style breakfast. The fresh and nutritious food is picked right from the field. It feels right to come here.”

At the moment, Song says he will focus on maintaining the quality of his homestay operations and updating the latest developments.“Hopefully, they can all come here and experience what we have to offer.”