Beating heat with red-hot leisure time
China DailyTourists enjoy their time at a water park in Lianyungang, Jiangsu province, on July 22. As summer mercury zooms up toward the 35-40+ C range, China's ocean parks, island destinations and water-based attractions are in hot demand, with online searches for such commercial leisure activities surging 55 percent in July from June, said Trip.com Group, China's largest online travel agency. "Summer vacation is the peak period for 'parent-child consumption', and theme resorts such as ocean parks boast multiple attributes such as 'parent-child activities', study and research tours, and night tours, which are highly favored by 'parent-child families'," said Wang Yalei, a researcher at Trip.com. For instance, a resort affiliated to Shanghai Haichang Ocean Park has designed six kinds of theme rooms for children, including rooms whose decorations depict dolphins, penguins and coral. Water parks such as Zhuhai Chimelong Ocean Kingdom in Zhuhai, Guangdong province, the water amusement park at Water Cube in Beijing, and Qingdao Polar Ocean World in Qingdao, Shandong province, have emerged as hot spots this summer, according to Tuniu Corp, a Nanjing, Jiangsu province-based online travel agency.
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