Many university students in the city of Shijiazhuang have chosen travel as the way to spend their summer holiday, which of course has helped the tourist business, this month, and, instead of joining a group arranged by a travel agency, many students prefer to travel by themselves.

Students who have just graduated are interested in travel as a way to give their school days a fond farewell. Baidu’s Post Bar has more than 2 million requests for friends to travel with after graduation. A post bar with a travel theme had 240,000 members, where people share their travel experiences with each other and find friends.

Many of them have ideas on how to travel cheaply to cut spending and more students are choosing this. One person with the name Black Sword said that planning in advance is the most important thing for cheap travel. For example, airline tickets should be booked in advance to get a good deal and student tickets are recommended for train travel. Cycling and hitchhiking are good ways to save money for short distance travel and hostels can help cut the spending.

Two students who just graduated have found several friends through the Internet with the same interests and are planning to go to Yunnan province together. One of them said that traveling with a tourist group is so out of date and it’s expensive and not very funny and travel with net friends is a better way. “We can travel more freely and spend less. It’s also a kind of social practice.”

One tourism industry insider in Shijiazhuang said that the cheap travel trend for students is a really good way to reduce spending, and a good way for them to learn about communicating and gathering traveling experience.