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Outlook Strong For Summer Holiday Travel In Arizona

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(Photo by Sky Schaudt - KJZZ)
AAA Arizona predicts 733,000 Arizonans will travel over the Memorial Day holiday.

This weekend marks the unofficial start of summer, and AAA Arizona predicts 733,000 Arizonans will travel over the Memorial Day holiday. That’d be an almost 5-percent increase over last year.

For more on holiday travel, we turn to Jan Freitag, senior vice president with STR, which provides research to the hotel industry.

Mark Brodie is a co-host of The Show, KJZZ’s locally produced news magazine. Since starting at KJZZ in 2002, Brodie has been a host, reporter and producer, including several years covering the Arizona Legislature, based at the Capitol.