The word holiday designate the one rest period that affects work or student activity and is characterized by its short duration, usually it can involve an afternoon, a morning, or a whole day.
Non-working time characterized by its short duration
Generally, on holiday, and depending on the motivation in question, it can be established by a national authority, such as a president of the nation, a municipal authority, the director of an educational establishment, the manager of a company, among other alternatives.
The executive power usually establishes a holiday on the occasion of the celebration of a festival or the commemoration of an important day for the country.
Normally the holiday establishes that that day will be a non-working day or in which classes will not be taught, however, its scope is not national, that is, the holiday normally affects one sector and not others, therefore the work activity or student will be reduced in some area.
It will always be linked to some special celebration and is not linked to the succession of some tragedy.
For example, in those parts of the world where Christmas Eve is celebrated on December 24, it is common for public administration activities to take place after noon.
This decision has the mission of allowing employees who, for example, must travel to be able to spend the holiday with their family who live in a remote area, to be able to arrive in a timely manner.
Distinction between vacation and holiday
We must differentiate the holiday from which it is usually confused and even both concepts are often used interchangeably but they are not the same.
The national holiday will be determined by a law that arises from the debate of the Legislative Power that establishes it as such and it will only be this authority who can cancel it, as long as the holiday to be effective it is not necessary that it be authorized by any law but it will only suffice with the relevant authority of the institution or organization to issue the same.
Also, such a situation can be transferred to a company.
In schools, the holiday often has to do with special and extracurricular activities that take place in the school, such is the case of voting for a national election and then, that motivates that the next day a holiday is established with the mission of restoring order and cleanliness in the school.
As a consequence of this holiday measure, classes will be suspended that day, students must not attend classes, resuming normal activity the next day or the next shift, if it is so decided.
Bridge holiday to promote tourism
In recent years and with the mission of promoting activities such as tourism, some countries have decided to decree some days off, formally called bridges holidays, due to that unique characteristic of being erected as bridges between a holiday and another that is not.
In this way, thanks to the bridge holiday, more non-working days are generated and in this way people can schedule mini vacations and be able to travel to various tourist spots.
Most of the countries that have adopted this modality in their holiday calendars have done so with the sole purpose of encouraging national tourism in their lands.
It should be noted that the use of this word is extended with a vacation sense, that is, to express that you have a vacation.
For example, that of vacation or vacation It's one of the synonyms most popular of this word.
Because the vacation is precisely the temporary interruption of the work, student activity that is carried out, with the aim of resting.
During this time, workers and students do not attend their jobs or classes, respectively, and dedicate themselves to to rest, to travel or to carry out those activities that they cannot do when they are affected by their obligations.
Of course, those activities that are carried out during the vacation or the holiday will depend on the amount of free days that are had, if it is a single day, people tend to rest, get up later than usual, visit friends, Among other actions, meanwhile, if there are more days, it is a custom to travel to a tourist destination.
