Originally Posted by Rob

I suspect that May Day is seen by many in the tourism industries as the real start of the season. Easter is just too early for temperatures to be reliable to get people thinking of outdoors. So removing that holiday, and making it later in the year is just shifting the season back and forth a bit. No real gain.

But from a bank holiday perspective why have Easter, may Day and the end of May holidays in such short succession. A date later in the year would spread things out.

Oh and to the unions, business leaders and such like who all say moving the holiday would be disruptive, I doubt it would be a sudden occurence and there would be a couple of years notice, whcih would give far more planning time than the holiday suddenly announced for the Royal Wedding, that is undoubtedly distruptive when so many will now be trying to skive that whole week.