{"id":107756,"date":"2017-12-26T11:10:54","date_gmt":"2017-12-26T15:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/?p=107756"},"modified":"2017-12-26T11:10:54","modified_gmt":"2017-12-26T15:10:54","slug":"aaa-bookings-include-dr-in-top-ten-air-holiday-destinations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2017\/12\/26\/aaa-bookings-include-dr-in-top-ten-air-holiday-destinations\/","title":{"rendered":"AAA bookings include DR in top ten air holiday destinations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-107720\" src=\"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Coconut-Tree-300x179.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"179\" \/>The Dominican Republic is included in the top 10 travel destinations as per AAA.com bookings. These top 10 destinations are: Orlando, Florida and Anaheim, California (Disney park destinations), Cancun, Mexico; Honolulu, Hawaii; Kahului\/Maui, Hawaii; Montego Bay, Jamaica; Punta Cana, Dominican Republic; Miami and Fort Lauderdale in Florida and New York City.<\/p>\n<p>The US auto club, AAA, forecasts Americans will be traveling in record numbers this 2017-2018 winter season. AAA forecasts that 107.3 million Americans will take to planes, trains, automobiles and other modes of transportation during the year-end holiday period from Saturday, 23 December 2017 through Monday, 1 January 2018. Of these, 6.4 million Americans are expected to fly to a holiday destination. This is a 4.1 percent increase and the fourth year of consecutive air travel volume increases.<\/p>\n<p>According to AAA, this will be the highest year-end travel volume on record and a 3.1% increase in travel volume compared with last year. 2017 marks the ninth consecutive year of rising year-end holiday travel. Since 2005, total year-end holiday travel volume has grown by 21.6 million, an increase of more than 25%.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOverall, our research shows that Americans are doing better economically than last year and want to go somewhere for the holidays,\u201d AAA Travel Assistant Vice-President Vicky Evans said in a statement. \u201cWhether they are going home or visiting a new destination, Americans have more money to finance their travel plans, thanks to a stronger economy and growing consumer confidence.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dominican Republic is included in the top 10 travel destinations as per AAA.com bookings. These top 10 destinations are: Orlando, Florida and Anaheim, California (Disney park destinations), Cancun, Mexico; Honolulu, Hawaii; Kahului\/Maui, Hawaii; Montego Bay, Jamaica; Punta Cana, Dominican Republic; Miami and Fort Lauderdale in Florida and New York City. The US auto club, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2017\/12\/26\/aaa-bookings-include-dr-in-top-ten-air-holiday-destinations\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107756"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}