This summer, China that has become more popular with tourists is also looking for places to escape the heat. Dali and Lijiang, well-visited cities in Yunnan, can be as cool as 59 degrees Fahrenheit at night in the summer “Other than weekend getaways to neighboring Southeast Asian cities, all the holidays are always to places cooler than Singapore,” says Wong of the humid city-state, where temperatures routinely hover above 80 F. “Europe is unpredictable of late, and the last thing I want is to fly 13 hours and suffer in a heat wave with temperatures higher than Singapore’s.” Wong’s decisions may be personal, but they underscore a deeper trend around the world. Some travel experts have been using the buzzword “coolcations” to describe a vacation location chosen for cooler weather. And it isn’t only the tourists coping with the dangerous weather. About 75% of workers in Asia are exposed to extreme heat, including employees like food vendors and delivery drivers, who often cater to tourists, according to the World Meteorological Organization. Last month, temperatures in France soared to 104 F as a “heat dome” enveloped the country. In an unprecedented move, Paris officials asked organizers of the annual summer music festival Fete de la Musique not to sell alcohol, as dehydration and heat stroke were serious risks to attendees. In Spain, the UK, and Switzerland, temperatures hit all-time highs, prompting many outdoor attractions to close or restrict their hours. In Asia, the situation is also dire. The continent is warming twice as fast as the rest of the world, according to the WMO. In Japan, two new records seem to be broken every year: international visitors and heat, with an all-time high temperature of 107.2 F. All five of the hottest days on record in Japan happened last summer. It prompted the country to coin a new word: kokusho-bi, or cruelly hot day. While some travelers have pivoted to traveling during shoulder seasons, it’s the northern hemisphere summer that dominates travel due to school schedules, with multiple countries in Asia also giving students extended breaks over the June-August period. The combination of relentless heat and floods of human traffic can make conditions downright unbearable. One solution for those visiting hot destinations is to go to outdoor attractions in the early morning or evening. Travel experience booking platform Get Your Guide tells CNN Travel that they’ve added more nighttime activities to meet these demands. In Asia, these “dusking” experiences can include a nighttime tour of Kyoto’s social media favorite, the bright-orange Fushimi Inari shrine, a sunset sail on the Mekong River in Thailand, or a spooky ghost-story tour of Seoul’s backroads. Bookings for activities in the 5-9 p.m. range are up 30%, the rep says, and Asia is the biggest market with a 70% uptick. Takao Nishina, who is the Japan and South Korea manager for Get Your Guide, says it’s first-time visitors and the obsessive bucket listers who are most willing to push through extreme heat to cross items off their itinerary. For the extreme travelers who are spending more time flying to a destination than visiting it, suffering through the weather is just part of the adventure. Now, he’s working to craft options that keep everybody happy — for example, moving cooking classes from an open-air market to an indoor venue, or encouraging sumo stadiums to have their tours during peak sunshine hours so people doing full-day itineraries can do outdoor stuff in the morning instead.