the year 2025 will be a year of bridges

The year 2025 is a year of bridges. By taking just seven days off, you can, if you do well, go off for 34 days. Good news for tourism, less for purchasing power.

With 11 public holidays, 10 of which are weekdays, in 2025, several long weekends are within reach with a minimum of days. Seven days of paid leave will be enough to obtain 34 days of rest, weekends included.

Looking at the 2025 calendar, Cyril does his calculations. “We can, by being playful, rest from May 1st to May 11th by taking 5 days. Which is not bad,” he says. Take 7 days to ensure 34 days of rest Diane and Louise hadn't thought about it.

“It’s not calculations that I’m doing. But once you see that, it makes you think,” they say.

“We know that we will pay dearly during this period”

And this number of possible bridges is good news for tourism analysis, Vanguélis Panayotis, president of the research firm MKG Consulting who warns of the rise in prices.

“Be careful with purchasing power because it remains a real subject. With the law of supply and demand, we see it at each major event or over very limited periods, there are places like Venice, Santorini, Cassis, where there are a lot of people. And that will be a real point of attention because we know that we will pay dearly during this period. But be careful not to have a degraded experience,” he believes.

Need for anticipation in businesses

For Bernard Cohen-Hadad, president of the Confédération des PME Île-de-France, “bridges and public holidays are part of business life”.

“What we expect, however, is that it is done in good harmony within the company. Depending on the order book, also depending on the company's difficulties. But if it allows the batteries to be recharged, who can complain?”, he says.

And one piece of advice: plan ahead to avoid friction between colleagues during these busy periods.