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Finally, consumption holidays like Christmas, Easter, Mother's day, have a large impact on sales as well as back to school shopping.
It is possible that this may be a reflection of other behavioural changes in the holidays (increased food intake and reduced physical activity), as sleep timing during the school period was related to growth.
Due to the lenghth of those holidays and since during school holiday, schools are not occupied with students; they can be available for groups of domestic travellers to stay overnight.
Some family holidays – or at least some situations in family holidays – are perceived as successful and just the way they were supposed to be.
Our findings indicate that holidays have a positive component, which should be taken into account in future research.
The results show that `enjoying holidays’ is the most important vacation motive.
Interventions to increase school students’ use of productive coping strategies may have meaningful impacts on their well-being.
Few students use opportunities to be physically active during lesiure time at school.
Holidays are likely to have particular significance for them.
Public holidays therefore have benefits both in the utility of leisure on holidays and (by enabling people to maintain social contacts more easily) in increasing the utility of leisure on normal weekdays and weekends.
Although increasing students’ activity levels during school hours is important, examining the impact of school-day interventions on students’ activity levels outside of school is also crucial.
This study suggests that the celebration of holidays may be used as a meaningful activity for fulfilling clients’ spiritual needs.
The effect of school holidays on social mixing patterns is better understood.
This is particularly relevant to weekends and holidays when children’s activity levels are low.
Holidays play an important role in alleviating the stresses of modern life and ways of making them available to all should be investigated.