This coming weekend is the Thanksgiving holiday for Americans with an estimated 38.4 million people expected to travel 50 miles or more away from home. This is an increase of 1.4 percent over last year, according to the AAA.
Most of this increase is expected to come from New England, with an 8.8 percent increase over last year. Most of these New England travellers are expected to travel by car.
Thanksgiving travel had fallen 25 percent in 2008 from 2007 as the recession started to take hold in the wake of the housing and financial crisis. Many Americans now feel the worst is behind them and have started to travel again.
Maybe we will see this increased confidence converted into a boost for the holiday travel industry in 2010.