A vacation is a break from work: a period of time devoted to rest, travel, or recreation. A vacation is a fixed holiday period: a scheduled period during which the activities of courts, schools, or other regular businesses are suspended.

Vacation is a term used in North America to describe time away from work or school, a trip abroad, or simply a pleasure trip away from home. In the rest of the English-speaking world the word holiday is used. The term derives from the fact that, in the past, upper-class families would literally move to a summer home for part of the year, leaving their usual family home vacant.

Vacation Destinations can vary from something as simple as staying at a local hotel to sailing around the world. The destinations also will vary by country. Vacation rental is a term in a travel industry meaning renting out furnished apartment or house on a temporary basis to tourists as an alternative to a hotel, proving to become more and more popular.