The Holiday Season Is Upon Us!!!

The holiday season has come!!! Every year, the end of October marks the onset of the holidays and festivities like Christmas and thanksgiving. The mood turns joyful and festive and people engage in various social activities. Even more so, this is also the season for long shopping lists, gifts for families and friends, holidays and vacations to exotic locations, beaches and the world tours. Even the market becomes more encouraging, tempting customers with great deals and offers. The electronic market, especially, receives a big boom during this gifting season. Ready to cash on the festive mood of the general public, you see tours and travel packages, great discounts on clothing, accessories, electronic gadgets and other shopping items and a lot of holidays to enjoy family time.

Here are five reasons why you should look forward to the upcoming festive season.

Great discounts
This is the time to shop. Everyone in the market has been sitting in anticipation for this time of the year when the customers finally come to fill the stores. From gadgets to clothes to home décor, you find a wave of great discounts on everything you want to have. Every vendor, be it small scale or retail giants like Overstock, Wal-Mart or Half Off Depot, is looking forward to some great shopping season, and are ready to woo in customers any way they can. The market gets very creative in such competition. So ready the shopping list, get your wallet and be ready to have some fun time with the shopping cart.

Festivals
The festivity is brought upon by the festivals. Christmas, thanksgiving, New Years Eve, the festivals have just started. Holidays like Veterans Day, Christmas and Thanksgiving are great times to be with your family and enjoy the celebratory mood. Veterans Day is celebrated to honor war veterans. Celebrated on November 11th, it is the anniversary of the signing of the armistice that ended World War I. Thanksgiving, or Thanksgiving Day, is a one-day annual holiday observed in Canada and the United States to celebrate being thankful. It is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November. Christmas is a holiday to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ. People usually go to churches, decorate a Christmas tree and give gifts to friends and family. The whole event is a big family gathering.

Spending some family time
Been too away from the family? Working too much and have little time for the children at home? Well, this is the time to make good. Holidays serve the great purpose of bringing families together and strengthening family bonds. Get a play station for the son or bike for the daughter, some priceless jewelry for the missus, a great gift for your parents and spend some quality time with them. Your presence in their lives might be the greatest gift you can give.

Great season for vacationing
This is the season for family time, right? What better to have that than spending a weekend at some exotic beach, far away from the bustle of your daily life? Book a trip to some beautiful island; go on a vacation to your grandparent’s ancestral place; take a safari trip or simply a road trip. The options are endless. Furthermore, hotels, travel agents and may be your office too, offer great travel packages and deals. Great discounts on hotel fare, airline fare and the great festive mood in the air, there is no better time to go vacationing than now!!

The business boom
The festive season also brings cheer on the faces of retailers and job seeker alike. Retailers across the country wait in anticipation, for the upcoming holiday season and the special spending season that these holidays bring along with them. Retailers go all out on promotions, offering unbelievable deals and offers and huge discounts. The retail market waits every year for this time and the shopping customers prove that it is worth the wait. Latest research shows that customers are ready to spend a whopping $700 billion this holiday season and that the tech market is likely to attract most of it. Job seekers, also wait for this time of the year as, a lot of job opportunities come up, especially in the retail market.