"In the past, a lot of students would go to Europe for a holiday after they graduated from university," says Hu Yang, an architect who helped set up a chain of youth hostels and budget hotels.

“过去，很多学生大学毕业后会去欧洲度个假，”帮助建立了一系列青年旅馆和廉价旅馆的建筑师胡杨(音)说到。

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Gappers are also opting for comfort with 67% choosing hotels over hostels and 8% opting for luxury accommodation during their trip.

空档年旅行者也会追求舒适，在旅途中有67%会选择酒店而不是旅馆，8%的人选择豪华型住宿。

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The surplus of old hotels in these faded towns has created a large supply of bed-and-breakfasts, which double up as emergency social housing and homeless hostels.

这些衰败城镇中过剩的老旧旅馆滋生了大量提供早餐的客栈，将社会紧急住房和无家可归招待所翻倍增长。

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Beijing's lower-rung hotels and hostels have been packed full.

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Customers now expect to have the same features as hotels and only pay hostel prices, because of the large number of beds these hostels sometimes hold they are very profitable businesses.

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Though closer to hostels than hotels, the wood-fired stoves, home-style food, and sociable communal space will seem like a heavenly apparition after seven hours of pushing and poling through powder.

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