AAA NJ: More than One in Four Americans to Take a Road Trip This Holiday Season
Automotive group says that with 93.3 million Americans expected to take a trip this holiday season, holiday travel to increase by 1.6 percent
The following is a press releae from AAA New Jersey. ------------------------ AAA projects 2.2 million New Jerseyans will join 93.3 million Americans in traveling 50 miles or more from home during the year-end holidays, an increase last year. This increase brings holiday travel figures to within half a million of the decade high mark seen during the 2006/2007 season. The year-end holiday travel period is defined as Saturday, Dec. 22 to Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2013. “Year-end travel paints an optimistic picture, in New Jersey and across the country,” said Cathleen Lewis, director of Public Affairs for AAA New Jersey. “Travel distances and spending all show modest improvement from last year and AAA is projecting an increase in the number of …
