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Other usesA vacation or holiday is a specific trip or journey, usually for the purpose of recreation or tourism . People often takes a vacation during specific holiday observances, or for specific festival s or celebrations. Vacations are often spent with Friendship|friends or family .
A person may take a longer break from work, such as a sabbatical , gap year , or career break .
The concept of taking a vacation is a recent invention, and has developed through the last two centuries. (see Grand Tour ) Once the idea of travel and recreation was a luxury of wealthy people alone. In the Puritan culture of early America, taking a break from work for reasons other than weekly observance of the Sabbath, was frowned upon. However, the modern concept of vacation was led by a later religious movement encouraging spiritual retreat and recreation. The notion of breaking from work periodically took root among the middle and working class. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php? storyId=105545388
Etymology
In the United Kingdom , vacation once specifically referred to the long summer break taken by the court|law courts and, later, universities& mdash;a custom introduced by William the Conqueror from Normandy where it facilitated the grape harvest. In the past, many upper-class families moved to a summer home for part of the year, leaving their usual family home vacant.
Regional meaning
See also|Tourism Vacation , in English-speaking North America , describes recreational travel , such as a short pleasure trip, or a journey abroad. People in Commonwealth of Nations|Commonwealth countries use the term holiday to describe absence from work as well as to describe a vacation or journey.
Canada|Canadians often use vacation and holiday interchangeably referring to a trip away from home or time off work. In Australia , holiday can refer to a vacation or a public holiday .
See also
Bank holiday
Post-vacation blues
Work�life balance
References
Wikiquote|VacationTourism Category:Holidays Category:Tourist activities Category:Types of travel
