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(Heathrow, FL) AAA projects an increase of holiday travelers this Labor Day weekend.

They expect 34.1 million Americans will journey 50 miles or more.

That’s a 4.2 percent increase from last year.

About 85 percent will travel by car.

AAA attributes the increase in travel to an increasingly positive economic outlook.