2. Relieve people's tense work pressure and let them rest and relax;
3. Promote the development of tourism and catering industry.
Disadvantages: 1 Due to the increase of tourists and congestion in hot spots around the country, the probability of accidents is greater than usual;
2. During the "Golden Week", except for the top centers including national defense, diplomacy and food, shopping and tourism at the bottom, social operation basically stopped for one week.
Advantages and disadvantages of golden week
Recently, it was reported that the State Council had held a meeting to study the cancellation of the "May 1" and "Eleventh" Golden Week holidays and the implementation of compulsory paid holidays. Zhao Peng, a domestic tourism authority and dean of the School of Tourism of Beijing Union University, also strongly hopes that relevant departments can adopt this proposal.
In recent years, people have been arguing about the advantages and disadvantages of the Golden Week. A few days ago, with the emergence of various contradictions in the "May 1" and "Eleventh" Golden Week, the proposal to cancel the "Golden Week" and implement compulsory paid vacation has once again attracted people's attention.
The core view suggested by experts is that although the "Golden Week" achieved the original intention of stimulating domestic demand to a certain extent, it artificially interfered with the fluctuation of tourism operation and did not conform to the operation law of tourism; Not only is the revenue of enterprises getting farther and farther away from the expected value, but the behavior of consumers is becoming more and more rational, and even there is a fear of traveling during the Golden Week. Dean Zhao Peng's suggestion is more from the perspective of tourism. In fact, even from other angles, the proposal to replace Golden Week with compulsory paid vacation is of positive significance.
First, vacation is the basic right of people in the workplace. However, how to arrange holidays reflects certain humanistic thoughts. As far as most people are concerned, they want to use their holidays to do things that they usually have no time to do. But if you take a vacation, the unit that works for you will also take a vacation, and many things will not be done. For example, I want to use my vacation to find a good doctor in the hospital and check my condition systematically. However, during the golden week, the hospital only has general emergency, and the attending doctors or experts are resting. If you don't want to "spend money to find fault" with people and crowded vehicles and don't want to go shopping, you can only lie at home and sleep. Is this highly unified "forced rest" of the whole society too emotional, even if it is concerned about the people?
Secondly, replacing Golden Week with compulsory paid vacation can save some social resources and create more social value. At the beginning, the idea of Golden Week was largely put forward on the basis of stimulating consumption. In the first few years of implementation, it did play a role in stimulating domestic demand and consumption. However, under some superficial, tangible interests, the concept of "Golden Week Gold Rush" has been continuously strengthened. However, a few years later, people gradually discovered that the "gold" in the Golden Week was not very real. To a certain extent, it was artificially "piled up" at the expense of the general downturn in the market for more than ten days before and after the Golden Week. If negative consumption factors such as price gouging, rampant counterfeiting and shrinking services are taken into account, its "gold content" is even more doubtful. And if the Golden Week is cancelled, social life will not "stop" because of concentrated vacation, and how much social value will it increase?
Of course, we can't help but see that it is still quite difficult to replace Golden Week with compulsory paid vacation. The biggest difficulty is that the social organization structure in China is extremely complicated, and compulsory paid vacation is quite extravagant for many workers. Nowadays, in addition to government agencies and institutions, it is difficult for many enterprises to even implement them. If employees don't even have a basic salary, all wages are linked to the labor value, and there is no income if they don't work on vacation, not to mention whether enterprises are willing to implement this system, and even employees themselves, I am afraid they will not receive this feeling. In addition, the original intention of Golden Week is not entirely for tourism, and the cultural connotation of traditional festivals can not be ignored. Festivals like the Spring Festival cannot be equated with the Golden Week, and compulsory paid holidays should be used instead.
In recent years, people have seen and talked about the advantages and disadvantages of the Golden Week, but how to solve the problem from a higher level should be discussed by more experts and people from different angles. Relevant government departments should brainstorm and coordinate in many ways to solve many economic, cultural, rights and obligations problems brought about by vacation.