Urban minimalist travel abandons the crowded check-in tourism mode and advocates slow, authentic and lightweight exploration. Traditional holiday tourism is often crowded with people, with tight schedules and heavy tasks, which is more tiring than daily work and cannot achieve real relaxation. Urban minimalist travel has no fixed routes, no time pressure and no check-in tasks. It takes walking, cycling and public transport as carriers to explore urban old streets, characteristic blocks, community parks, bookstores, cafes and cultural exhibition halls, feeling the unique humanistic atmosphere and life rhythm of the city. The biggest advantage of urban minimalist travel is low threshold and high frequency. It does not need to wait for long holidays, does not need high travel expenses, and does not need complicated strategy planning. Weekend half-day leisure, weekday evening spare time and daily rest time can all carry out urban exploration. This high-frequency lightweight travel mode makes leisure and relaxation integrate into daily life, no longer limited to rare long-distance tourism, and enriches daily leisure modes. Urban minimalist travel helps people re-recognize the city they live in. Many people have lived in a city for many years, but they only are familiar with the work and living area, and know nothing about the city’s characteristic culture, historical streets, artistic blocks and natural scenery. They ignore the beauty around them and yearn for distant scenery. Urban minimalist travel allows people to discover the unknown beauty of their living city, feel the city’s historical heritage and humanistic temperature, and enhance their sense of identity and belonging to the living environment. This lightweight travel mode has excellent mental healing effect. Long-term fixed work and living environment easily make people feel tired and monotonous. Short-distance urban exploration can break the fixed life track, bring fresh sensory experience, relieve work fatigue and mental stagnation, and make people’s mood relaxed and open. Different block scenery, street styles and crowd states can bring diverse life perceptions and enrich personal life experience. Urban minimalist travel also advocates low-carbon and environmentally friendly travel concepts. Walking and cycling exploration reduce carbon emissions generated by transportation; lightweight travel with no excessive luggage and no blind consumption avoids tourism waste and excessive consumption. It conforms to the modern sustainable lifestyle, realizing leisure and relaxation under the premise of environmental protection and low consumption. Urban minimalist travel is a down-to-earth life romance. It tells people that beauty is not only in distant scenery, but also in the trivial exploration around life. Without far travel, you can also have rich travel experience and relaxed leisure time. This lightweight travel lifestyle makes ordinary daily life full of freshness and ritual, letting people discover romance and beauty in the trivial urban life.
