Midweek Holiday Spurs More Americans to Travel
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CHICAGO, July 2 -- If you are trying to make your Fourth of July last three days or more, you're not alone.
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As the high-pressure holiday travel season rolls in, the transportation industry is anticipating some of the highest numbers seen in four years.
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Las Vegas tourism officials plan to reveal an outline this week of their strategy to attract foreign visitors who have shied away from the United States since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.Officials are to present the vision Tuesday to the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority board, which is aiming to boost the share of visitors who come from other countries to 15 percent, up from the current 13 percent, by 2010. The destination's percentage of visitors from abroad have fallen from 18 percent before the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, buffeted by tougher visa restrictions, wariness of travel and customs checks. Read more
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Tens of millions of Americans are expected to hit the road this Thanksgiving holiday in numbers not seen since before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, despite
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A record number of Americans will hit the road for the July 4 holiday despite high gasoline prices and the fact it lands in the middle of the week, automobile and travel group AAA said in a press release Monday.
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Travelers flying for the Thanksgiving holiday wait in lines and move through Logan International Airport in Boston, Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2004, during one of the busiest travel times of the year.
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Thanksgiving didn&#39;t start out as planned for many holiday travelers who began the long weekend stuck in airports or creeping along highways after fierce storms dumped snow in the Midwest.
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Despite record fuel prices above $3 per gallon, more Americans are expected to travel by car over the Memorial Day holiday weekend than a year ago
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MANATEE - Expect airports and roads to be even more crowded than usual this holiday season. That&#39;s the word from AAA, which predicted Wednesday that a record number of Americans and Floridians will travel during the Christmas and New Year&#39;s holidays.
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Higher gasoline prices, hotel rates and air fares aren&#39;t expected to deter travelers this Thanksgiving. Instead, a record number of people will be on the road and in the air this year, according to AAA Mid-Atlantic.
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Millions of travelers throughout the South will take to the roads and skies this week in anticipation of the Thanksgiving weekend _ bucking a trend of lower-than-normal holiday travel in recent years.
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As Europe's workers take a few weeks of holiday this summer, their American colleagues will be lucky to get a few days off work, says a report published by the European Trade Union Institute.
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PHILADELPHIA - US Airways appealed to its employees to come to Philadelphia International Airport on their days off this weekend to help boost staffing levels, and ensure there are no echoes of the Christmas fiasco that left the airline with too few
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The number of Americans driving and flying over the Memorial Day holiday weekend is expected to rise only slightly this year as consumers respond to the rising cost of airfares, hotel rooms and motor fuel, according to travel agency AAA.
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Travelers didn&#39;t plan on starting their long Thanksgiving weekend stuck in airports or driving on slippery roads, but then again they hadn&#39;t figured on snow - and a lot of it.
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More people are finding unusual ways to enjoy their holidays without shopping themselves into a stupor.
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Travelers heading home for Thanksgiving were slowed by snow-covered highways in the Midwest and thunderstorms in the South on Wednesday, as millions of people took to cars, buses, trains and airlines.