Česká dovolená na konci 20. století

The Czech holiday at the end of the 1990s can be characterised in its basic general features in terms of the following basic trends: 1. possible ways of spending holiday time, specific holiday activities and so forth – in this sense holidays have become very diversified and „demassified“ (to use A. Toffler's term); 2. ways of spending holidays and attitudes to holidays have become strongly differentiated, most clearly by economic criteria and age. As far as socio-economic position is concerned, the greatest emergent differences have been between economically active and economically inactive groups (not only income, but work itself and the individual's attitude to it play an important role here). In some cases place of residence and education were criteria of differentiation (but this did not apply universally). The criteria of sex, marital status and number of children turned out to have a relatively small differentiating effect; 3. economic criteria (specifically income, degree of access to family budget and economic self-identification of the household) played a very important role in all decisions relating to holidays: from the decision whether to take a holiday at all to the choice between specific foreign holidays. Specific aspects of the theme of holidays in the CR at the end of the 90s which the article also considers include holiday entitlements that are not taken, holidays spent at home, work as an obstacle to holidays, seasonality of holidays, holidays in own country cottages, holidays with travel agencies, holiday destinations and economic aspects of holidays.