How are holidays celebrated in your fictional world? Are holidays linked to religious festivals, kept separate or is there a mixture of both? How would most of your characters spend their time off?
My fictional Fairy Kingdom has its villages and towns all holding what we would see as fetes and each residency takes great pride in putting on the best show possible. The Queen visits as many as possible. There is immense rivalry between villages/towns as to how their fetes went after the actual events. War hasn't broken out yet but there have been many, many harsh words. And Roherum and the Fairy News Network report with great relish when villages are at loggerheads over this. (It also generates comments for their points of view programmes and many of those points are expressed "vigorously". That in turn does wonders for the viewing figures, something that hasn't escaped the attention of FNN).
What kind of landscapes form your fictional worlds and which of these are used as holiday resorts? Which landscapes are avoided for this kind of thing and why? Can all go on holiday or is this something only the better off do? Equally if you have a bleak story, were holidays banned and if so by whom? (Presumably the idea would be to keep people suppressed and to control travel).