{"id":98881052,"date":"2011-06-23T16:44:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-23T16:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/travel-trends\/aaa-predicts-slight-dip-in-overall-independence-day-travel\/"},"modified":"2021-11-10T10:16:12","modified_gmt":"2021-11-10T15:16:12","slug":"aaa-predicts-slight-dip-in-overall-independence-day-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/aaa-predicts-slight-dip-in-overall-independence-day-travel\/","title":{"rendered":"AAA Predicts Slight Dip in Overall Independence Day Travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new report from AAA predicts a slight dip in the number of Americans traveling this Independence Day weekend.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The prediction comes despite a 9 point increase in the number of Americans who plan to fly to their Fourth of July destination in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The discrepancy in figures can be blamed on stubbornly high gas prices.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Fewer Americans say they plan to drive to during the holiday as the average price for a gallon of gas remains $1 higher on average than a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Overall, about 39 million Americans are expected to travel at least 50 miles from home during the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/flights\/holiday-flights\">holiday weekend<\/a>. That figure is down slightly from 40 million in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Source:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/43494975\/ns\/travel-news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">MSNBC<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new report from AAA predicts a slight dip in the number of Americans traveling this Independence Day weekend. &nbsp; The prediction comes despite a 9 point increase in the number of Americans who plan to fly to their Fourth of July destination in 2011. &nbsp; The discrepancy in figures can be blamed on stubbornly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98881052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98881052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98881052"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98881052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98909065,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98881052\/revisions\/98909065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98881052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98881052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98881052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}