Holidays

Holidays are official or unofficial observances of religious/ national/ cultural/ other significance, often accompanied by celebrations or festivities (public/religious holiday)

Most countries around the world have labor laws mandating employers give a certain number of paid days of time off per year to be given to a worker. The vast majority of American employers provide for paid national holidays, such as Christmas or Thanksgiving Day.

In some cases "vacation holiday" is used in North America, which signifies that a vacation trip is taken during a traditional national holiday period. When national holidays fall on a normal non-working day, such as a weekend, they will sometimes be carried over to the next working day.

In the United Kingdom, there is an annual issue for parents, who only have the mandated summer holidays in order to plan vacations. Accordingly, holiday companies charge higher prices, giving an incentive for parents to use their work vacation time in term time.