residents of china's capital getting out of town to escape smog - bedroom air purifier

BEIJING (Reuters)-
Residents of the Chinese capital wore masks and used air purifiers on Wednesday to try to avoid heavy pollution hanging over the city for the fifth day, but others gave up the battle, join a trip to "avoid smog.
Beijing's search on the tourist site Qunar ranks first in the country.
Michelle Qi, a spokesman for Ctrip, the website's parent company, said com's terms for "avoiding smog", "washing lungs" and other terms related to traveling from pollution. com.
Throughout the week, North China was shrouded in almost record pollution, disrupting flights, transportation and shipping, and shutting down factories and schools.
Qi said the search for air tickets from Beijing to southern China, including coastal areas such as Hainan province, quadrupled this week.
She said that popular foreign destinations such as Thailand and Japan "good air quality is definitely one of the reasons for going ".
In the industrial hub of northern China, pollution alerts are becoming more and more common, especially in winter, where energy demand
Most of it is made of coal-rises sharply.
Some Beijing residents, like Wang Zhen, 27, and her family, can't get out of town fast enough.
Wang said: "My husband and I really want to go, but our company will not let us get off work, so we have no choice but to wear masks to go to work and cough . " He works at the automotive technology research center.
Wang said her mother flew to Hainan on Monday and had a holiday home to avoid pollution.
For those who can't go too far, the tourism network, including Ctrip, stands in places in many cities in northern China where red warnings of pollution are issued to advertise hotels with air filtration systems.
On Wednesday, a banner advertisement on Ctrip's page wrote: "Enjoy the micro-forest and live in a fresh air room: enjoy your own supplementary air filtration machine ", link to the featured list of hotels with this feature.