Nationwide, AAA predicts that 42.3 million Americans will be traveling 50 miles or more from home for Memorial Day Weekend.
Airports and roads in New England are set for a busy holiday weekend, and likely summer, as people look forward to enjoying themselves with warmer weather arriving.
“Massachusetts will be joining the many Memorial Day travelers with more than one million taking to the roads and skies. That’s a 6.9 percent increase from the almost 950,000 a year ago,” Vice President of Public and Government Affairs for AAA Northeast Mary Maguire said."Of those, 917,000 will travel by car. And 81,000 will take to the skies, a 10.4 percent increase, meaning this summer travel season could be one for the record books, especially at airports.
Businesses have been getting creative as they face a smaller pool of workers, in part because of less workers coming in on J-1 and H-2B visas. As for where people are headed, AAA said that typical tourist destinations are popular choices, including Orlando, New York City, and Las Vegas.
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