More people have strong desire to travel and the market is seeing more     1     (opportunity) for healing tourism, which means less tight schedules and more health-related projects,     2     (bring) joy to the spirit, a new survey shows.

As China optimized (优化) their COVID-19 response measures , the pent-up (被抑制的) travel demand     3     (release) in the past few months. About 91.24 percent of respondents to the survey said they have a plan to travel this year. About 60 percent of respondents said they have a plan to travel domestically, while 32.37 percent choose both domestic     4     oversea tourism this year.

Though the tourism industry was hit hard by COVID-19, after the pandemic people began to pay more attention to     5     (they) health and have strengthened their will to travel.     6     increasing number of consumers are paying more attention to health-related projects, among    7     healing tourism, has become a bright spot.

About 87 percent of respondents to the survey said they are ready     8       (purchase) healthy products, and more than half, or 55. 24 percent, said they plan to participate in healing tourism    9     (active) this year. Data from travelling platforms showed cities    10     (locate) around the Tropic of Cancer such as Sanya, Zhuhai, Xishuangbanna, Dali, Xiamen, Haikou, Tengchong and Beihai are becoming popular.

My First Trip to Tibet

On the three hours’ flight from Xi’an to Lhasa, we had a wonderful time, talking and laughing all the way. The great views of the mountains below, the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, got us     1    (excite). I couldn’t help taking some pictures.

Our plane landed     2    (safe) at Lhasa Airport at 11: 30 am. The airport is located at the sea-level of over 3500 metres, making it one of the     3    (high) airports in the world. From there you can fly to many big cities both home and abroad.

Leaving the airport, we took a bus to the city of Lhasa,     4     is 3600 meters above the sea level. Everybody felt a little bit uncomfortable, and some,     5    (include) me, even had     6     headache. What surprised us along the way was warm sunshine, blue sky and clear water. Mountains were everywhere, but no trees on them. The driver said if there were     7     (tree) on the mountains, the city of Lhasa would have more oxygen!

The tour guide     8     (arrange) for us to stay in a downtown hotel, mainly for two reasons – free internet access and domestic telephone. What’ s more, all the rooms were large     9     modern facilities and the famous Potala Palace was just within a stone’s throw. Lhasa was smaller than I had thought before. It took you about RMB 10     10    (take) a taxi in the downtown area.

In the late afternoon, we found it was so cold     1     our water bottles froze.     2    , the lakes shone like glass in the setting sun and looked wonderful. Wang Wei     3     (ride) in front of me as usual. She is very     4     (rely) and I knew I didn’t need to encourage    5    (she). We were       6     (surprise) by the beautiful view. At one point we were high enough to find ourselves     7    (cycle) through clouds. In the valleys, we saw many yaks and     8     (sheep) eating green grass. We will reach Dali in Yunnan Province soon,     9     our cousins Dao Wei and Yu Hang will join us. We can       10     (hard) wait to see them!