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Falling unemployment, better consumer finances, rising house prices melbourne and florida and dinner cruise and faster melbourne and florida and dinner cruise economic growth in the United States have all contributed to the forecast, issued every year by the AAA and prepared with research group IHS Global Insight.
Labor Day lands on Monday, Sept 2. It is considered to be the traditional end of the summer driving melbourne and florida and dinner cruise season which starts on Memorial Day on Monday, May 27. The price of gasoline tends to rise during the season as people go on vacation and drive more.
This year, 85 percent of those going away, or 29.2 million people, will travel by car, rising from 28 million last year. Air travel is also expected to increase though, by almost 3 percent to 2.6 million, AAA and IHS said.
"AAA is forecasting a lift in Labor Day travel this year due to the increasingly positive economic outlook and optimism in the housing market," AAA President and CEO Robert melbourne and florida and dinner cruise Darbelnet said in a statement.
"For many Americans, their home is also their biggest asset, as home prices improve in many parts of the country more families are feeling melbourne and florida and dinner cruise comfortable about traveling this Labor Day holiday," he said.
Gasoline prices are currently 2.7 percent lower on average than a year ago although AAA warned they could rise later in the month should hurricanes and tropical melbourne and florida and dinner cruise storms or refinery outages dent production. It said however prices will have little bearing on whether people choose to travel or not.
AAA and IHS forecast the number of people traveling based on a variety of economic indicators while their prediction of behavior, such as journey length and money spent, is based on interviews with people intending to travel from a survey of 1,350 households.
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