The LATEST Ways to Save on Travel in 2025: Your Expert Guide! · Hey Nadine
本期视频探讨2025年如何以低成本享受旅行。通过专家Matt Kepnes的分享，了解预算旅行的最新趋势和实用技巧，适合练习旅行、生活和经济类英语表达。
When people think about budget travel, they usually think about backpacking and just being cheap.
当人们想到经济实惠的旅行方式时，通常会想到背包旅行以及尽可能节省开支。
But I think a budget travel has frugal travel.
不过我认为，“预算旅行”其实就是一种节俭的旅行方式。
Is budget travel still accessible in 2025?
在2025年，经济实惠的旅行方式仍然可行吗？
And what are some of the best ways to save money while abroad?
那么，在国外时节省开支的一些最佳方法有哪些呢？
These are the questions we are going to answer as I'm joined today by budget travel expert, Matt Kepness.
这些问题正是我们今天要探讨的。今天，我们有幸邀请到了预算旅行领域的专家马特·凯普内斯（Matt Kepness）与我们共同交流。
In 2005, Matt took a trip to Thailand that inspired him to come home, quit his job, and backpack around the world for a year.
2005年，马特去了泰国旅行。这次旅行让他产生了回国、辞去工作、然后背起背包环游世界的想法。他决定用一年的时间来完成这个梦想。
Cheaper and longer, helping millions of people a year realize their own travel dreams.
价格更便宜，旅行时间也更长，每年帮助数百万人实现自己的旅行梦想。
In 2012, he published his first book, How to Travel the World on $50 a day, which has now been updated for 2025.
2012年，他出版了第一本书《如何每天仅花费50美元环游世界》，该书现已更新至2025年的旅行指南版本。
He also has published his memoir, Ten Years and No Mad, about his decade backpacking the world.
他还出版了自己的回忆录《十年游历：没有疯狂的岁月》，记录了自己用背包环游世界的十年经历。
Thank you so much, Matt, for joining me.
非常感谢你，马特，能和我一起参与这次活动。
I'm excited to be chatting about budget travel, because you are clearly the expert in it.
我很高兴能和大家讨论关于“预算旅行”的话题，因为您显然是这方面的专家。
So let's start with the biggest question, then, on people's mind.
那么，让我们先来探讨人们心中最关心的那个问题吧。
Is budget travel still accessible in 2025, or has it just become way more challenging?
到了 2025 年，经济实惠的旅行方式仍然可行吗？还是说，这种旅行的难度大大增加了？
It's definitely harder.
确实困难多了。
Prices have gone up.
价格上涨了。
That's just the reality of life.
这就是生活的现实。
I mean, especially post -COVID, as a lot of companies try to recover the debt they incur, the losses they incur.
我的意思是，尤其是在新冠疫情之后，许多公司都在努力偿还所欠的债务、弥补所遭受的损失。
More people are out, so there's more demand, which means there's less incentive to lower prices.
外出的人更多了，因此需求也增加了；这样一来，企业降低价格的动力就变小了。
But that doesn't mean it's impossible.
但这并不意味着这件事是不可能完成的。
There are still ways to travel on a budget.
仍然有一些方法可以让你在预算有限的情况下旅行。
There are still tons of sharing economy websites.
目前仍然有大量的共享经济相关网站存在。
Facebook groups have become super huge, points and miles for flights.
Facebook上的群组已经变得非常庞大；这些群组在为乘客积累飞行里程（即积分）方面发挥了重要作用。
There is now budget airlines that go from North America to Japan, so you can get across Asia on a budget.
现在已经有廉价的航空公司提供从北美到日本的航线服务，因此你可以以较低的成本穿越整个亚洲。
Is it as good as it was in the late 2000s or early 2010s?
它现在还像 21 世纪 00 年代末或 10 年代初那样出色吗？
No.
不。
But is it impossible?
但这真的不可能吗？
Definitely not.
绝对不行。
I mean, obviously, everyone's dollar is a little bit more stretched nowadays, so I'm excited to hear that.
我的意思是，显然现在每个人的预算都更加紧张了，因此听到这个消息让我感到很兴奋。
Let's talk about misconceptions that other people might have about budget travel.
我们来谈谈其他人可能对经济型旅行存在的误解吧。
What are some of those that you see?
你看到了哪些这样的东西呢？
Yeah, when people think about budget travel, they usually think about backpacking and just being cheap.
是的，当人们想到经济型旅行时，通常会想到背包旅行以及尽可能节省开支。
You know, they think, oh, I'm going to end up in the back of the bus in like Z -Class in the last row,
你知道吗，他们觉得：“哦，我最终肯定会被安排在公交车的后排，坐在Z类的座位上，也就是最后一排。
sitting on a cart, I'm going to say in a 60 -bed hostile dorm.
我坐在一辆推车上，所在的宿舍是一个能容纳60名学生的、环境相当恶劣的宿舍（或者说是一个条件很差的宿舍）。
You know, I'm going to be eating ramen.
你知道吗，我打算吃拉面。
You know, they think of it as like, okay, they're going to save money,
你知道的，他们觉得这样就能省钱了。
but they're not going to have anything fun to do.
但他们没有什么有趣的事情可做。
So it's like, what's the point, right?
那么，这到底有什么意义呢？
Do you think that's just like media's image of budget travel that's just kind of been perpetuated?
你认为这其实只是媒体对经济型旅行的刻板印象在不断被重复罢了？
Like, that's the ult, because like, that's the ultra budget travel.
这就是所谓的“终极旅行方式”了——因为这完全符合“超低成本旅行”的理念啊。
Yeah, I mean, I think it's, you know, between movies and media and the news.
是的，我的意思是，我认为这个问题应该放在电影、媒体以及新闻这三个领域之间来考虑。