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AAA Texas: Pandemic Concerns Cause Most Texans to Stay Home for the Holidays

By Daniel Armbruster & Joshua Zuber December 15, 2020 Travel

Coppell, TX — AAA Texas expects the vast majority of Texans, as well as Americans, to stay home this holiday season. Public health concerns and travel guidance are influencing their decisions not to travel over the year-end holidays, a period that typically sees high...

AAA Texas: Fewer Americans Traveling This Thanksgiving Amid Pandemic

By Daniel Armbruster & Joshua Zuber November 12, 2020 Travel

Coppell, TX — Thanksgiving will be on the lighter side when it comes to the typical number of travelers on the roads and at airports. According to AAA Travel, effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, including health concerns and high unemployment, are impacting Americans’...

AAA Texas: Americans Planning Fall Travel with Cautious Optimism

By Daniel Armbruster & Joshua Zuber October 15, 2020 Travel

Coppell, TX — According to a recent AAA Travel survey, American travelers are making vacation plans through the end of the year, but remain cautiously optimistic about those future plans. Sixty-seven percent of U.S. adults planning a vacation before the end of the ...

AAA Texas: Americans will take more than 700 Million Trips this Summer

By Daniel Armbruster June 25, 2020 Travel

Coppell, TX — This summer, AAA forecasts Americans will take 700 million trips based on economic indicators and state re-openings. That number is down nearly 15% compared to last July through September and is the first decline in summer travel since 2009. Regionally,...

Statewide Gas Price Average Jumps Six Cents Week-over-week; Memorial Day Pump Prices Cheapest Since 2003

By Joshua Zuber May 21, 2020 Gas Prices, Monthly Fuel Prices Report, Travel, Weekly Fuel Prices Report

Coppell, TX — The statewide gas price average in Texas is $1.60 for a gallon of regular unleaded fuel, according to the AAA Texas Weekend Gas Watch. That price is six cents more than on this day last week and 97 cents less per gallon compared to this day last year. Of...

AAA Texas: Pandemic Will Suppress Memorial Day Travel but Travelers Already Planning Future Trips

By Joshua Zuber May 14, 2020 Travel

Coppell, TX — For the first time in 20 years, AAA will not issue a Memorial Day travel forecast, as the accuracy of the economic data used to create the forecast has been undermined by COVID-19. The annual forecast – which estimates the number of people traveling over...

AAA Texas: Ten Texas Hotels and Restaurants Added to Prestigious Four Diamond List for 2020

By Daniel Armbruster February 19, 2020 Travel

Coppell, TX — With the addition of ten hotels and three restaurants, AAA Texas has unveiled the 2020 Four Diamond list, comprising of only 1,718 hotels and 682 restaurants. This elite group represents four percent of the nearly 60,000 AAA Diamond establishments across the United States, Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean.

AAA Texas: Diamonds are the Clear Choice for Travelers, New AAA Diamond Program Revealed

By Daniel Armbruster January 28, 2020 Corporate Information, Travel

Coppell, TX — AAA is unveiling a transformed, contemporized version of its highly acclaimed AAA Diamond Program. The program will remain backed by professionally trained inspectors using member-driven criteria to recommend only clean, comfortable, hospitable hotels...

AAA Texas Holds One-stop Passport Fair to Renew or Get a New Passport

By Kara Thorp January 21, 2020 Corporate Information, Travel

Austin, TX — AAA Texas is holding a Passport Acceptance Fair, making it easy for those needing to renew a passport or obtain a new one. The fair will take place Saturday, January 25, 2020 from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at the AAA Texas branch located in the Galleria...

AAA Texas: Record 9.3 Million Texans Will Travel to Celebrate the Year-End Holidays

By Daniel Armbruster December 12, 2019 Travel

Coppell, TX — More Texans than ever – 9.3 million – will travel this holiday season, from Sunday, Dec. 21 through Wednesday, Jan. 1. That is the most in nearly 20 years since AAA Texas began tracking in 2000 and represents an increase of 3.8% over last year. More than...

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