Calendar holidays will fall apart by region, "holiday law amendment plan", where is merit there?

There is a large consecutive holiday called "Golden week" from the end of April every year to the beginning of May, but how much "○ ○ district is the 1st week of May", "xx region is the 2nd week of May" It has become clear that there is a possibility that it will be divided into.

Also, move national holidays on Monday and make three consecutive holidays together with Saturdays and Sundays "Happy Monday systemIt is also under consideration to abolish the.

Details are as below.
Is GW shifted by one week in the region? Legal revision examination for large consecutive holidays (1 / 2page) - MSN Sankei News

According to the Sankei Shimbun news report, a "holiday law revision bill" which sets a large consecutive holidays at different times for each region to subdivide the large consecutive holidays in May where tourism concentrates will be submitted to the current Diet session It seems to be decided.

This is because the Government's Tourism Promotion Headquarters has been setting up the "Leave Distributed Working Team (WT)" and the anniversary such as the Constitution Memorial Day (May 3) has not changed, but each By establishing consecutive holidays for each district, at least in the region, government and public schools and public schools are to be adopted a system that adopts a holiday.

In addition, it was pointed out that problems such as the meaning of the anniversary being unknown were pointed out, it is supposed to abolish the "Happy Monday system" which moves public holidays on Monday and makes three consecutive holidays by matching with the weekend It is said that these measures are aimed at implementation in fiscal 2011.

Official page of vacation diversification working teamExample of acquisition of Golden week by district listed in. A system that acquires Golden week separately into 8 districts for each domestic region.


In addition, as a background to considering introduction of such measures, it is said that it is possible to reduce traffic congestion and congestion, shorten travel time, stabilize employment at tourist spots by dispersing large vacations It is.


It summarizes the influence of the concentration of demand as follows. High-speed bus travel time and travel expenses are jumping up in the large holiday season.


Regardless of the revitalization of the tourism industry, it is difficult to manage the schedule due to the calendar becoming uneven in each area, a full renovation of the system that operates taking holidays into account, and a large company with several branches in the province In case of headquarters, it is hard to imagine that the branch office can take a day off despite working at the headquarters, eventually it will become impossible to rest at the headquarters, etc. As a matter of fact, problems are emerging That's right.