AAA projects the number of year-end holiday travelers will top 100 million for the first time on record. Nearly one in three Americans (100.5 million) will journey 50 miles or more between Wednesday, December 23, 2015 and Sunday, January 3, 2016. This represents a 1.4 percent increase over last year and the seventh consecutive year of travel growth for this holiday period.
Projections show that 2,157,962 Tennesseans will travel during the holidays.
Driving remains most popular mode of travel for year-end holiday travel:
- More than 90 percent of travelers (91.3 million people) will drive to their holiday destinations, an increase of 1.4 percent over last year.
- Air travel is expected to increase by 0.7 percent, with 5.8 million Americans flying to their holiday destinations.
- Travel by other modes of transportation, including cruises, trains and buses, will increase 2.4 percent, to 3.4 million travelers.
