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This post comes to us from Stephanie Sanders.
Last week, I wrote a story about a predicted 2.6% decline in travel over the Fourth of July holiday weekend. The reasons? Gas is relatively expensive (though not as expensive as it was last July), and people don’t have as much money as they did at this time last year. Or is that true?
Roger Boyd is our go-to guy at AAA when we need to talk gas prices and/or holiday travel. He said something in our interview last week that intrigued me: they measure travel predictions not on how well the economy is performing, but on how people feel the economy is performing.
Three months ago, when they started calculating feelings about Fourth of July weekend, they noticed not many people were booking trips through AAA for the traditional long weekend. So they predicted a decline in travel.
I spoke with Boyd on Tuesday of last week, and he said they’d been swamped with people planning last-minute trips for the Independence Day weekend.
So the question is: are we feeling better about the economy in the last couple of weeks than we did in April?
The Edit: WFPL's Gabe Bullard blogs the news 