Advantages and disadvantages of golden week

Benefits: 1. Stimulate domestic demand and promote economic development;

2. Relieve people's tense work pressure and make them have a rest and relax;

3. Promoting the development of tourism and catering industry

Disadvantages: 1. Due to the increase and crowding of tourists in hot spots around the country, the potential safety hazards increase, and the probability of accidents is greater than usual;

2. During the "Golden Week", except for the top center 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 convened a meeting to study the cancellation of the "May 1" and "Eleventh" Golden Week holidays and the implementation of compulsory paid holidays. Zhao Peng, an authority on domestic tourism and dean of the School of Tourism of Beijing Union University, also strongly hopes that relevant departments can adopt this proposal.

In recent years, there has been a constant debate about the pros and cons of the Golden Week. A few days ago, with the emergence of various contradictions during the "May 1" and "Eleventh" Golden Week, the proposal to cancel the "Golden Week" and implement compulsory paid vacation once again attracted people's attention.

The core point of the expert's suggestion is that although the "Golden Week" achieved the original purpose of stimulating domestic demand to a certain extent, it artificially interfered with the fluctuation of tourism operation and did not conform to the management rules of tourism; Not only is the enterprise's revenue getting farther and farther away from the expected value, but consumers' behavior is becoming more rational, and there is even fear of traveling during the Golden Week. Dean Zhao Peng's suggestions are more from the perspective of tourism. In fact, even from other angles, the proposal to replace Golden Week with compulsory paid vacation is also of positive significance.

first, vacation is the basic right of people in the workplace. However, how to arrange vacation embodies certain humanistic ideas. As far as most people are concerned, they want to use their vacation to do something they don't usually have 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 to check the disease systematically. However, during the golden week, the hospital only has general emergency treatment, and the attending doctors or experts all rest. If you don't want to "spend money to find guilt" with people and crowded transportation, and don't want to go shopping, you can only lie at home and sleep. This highly unified "forced rest" of the whole society, even if it is a concern for the people, is it too extensive emotionally?

Second, 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 and tangible benefits, the concept of "panning for gold during the Golden Week" 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 we consider the negative consumption factors such as driving up prices, rampant counterfeiting and shrinking services, 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 add?

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. At present, in addition to institutions and institutions, many enterprises are even difficult to implement. If employees don't even have a basic salary, all salaries are linked to the value of labor, and there is no income if they don't work on vacation, let alone whether the enterprise is willing to implement this system, even the employees themselves, I am afraid they will not receive this feeling. In addition, the original intention of the Golden Week is not entirely for tourism, and the cultural connotation of traditional festivals cannot be ignored. Festivals like the Spring Festival cannot be equated with the Golden Week, and they are also replaced by compulsory paid vacations.

People have seen and talked about the pros and cons of the Golden Week in recent years, but how to solve these problems from a higher level should be discussed by more experts and people from different angles. The relevant government departments should brainstorm and coordinate in many ways to solve many economic, cultural, rights and obligations problems brought about by vacations.