AAA: Year-end holiday travel to increase for fifth consecutive year

(Dec. 18, 2014) — AAA projects 94.5 million Americans will journey 50 miles or more from home during the year-end holiday season, an increase of 0.6 percent from the 94 million people who traveled last year. This upward trend marks the fifth consecutive year of increases and the highest travel volume recorded for the season. Only once in the past decade has there been a change in travel volume greater than five percent and that was a decline in 2007 as the recession was just getting started, the release stated.