Nepal Tourism Board and the tourism industry department at the ministry are pushing to activate a 1998-idea to send government officials on weeklong paid vacations to boost domestic tourism. The proposal has been sent to the Finance Ministry, and is likely to be included in the 10th plan. Government officials use examples from India and China to justify the idea, and see it as a way to keep the tourism industry running in bad times. For now, no one is talking about productivity issues, or about the unsustainably long list of public holidays our government employees are already entitled to. Does this mean productivity will go up because civil servants will come back rested and fresh from a vacation in Olangchunggola?