{"id":2743,"date":"2016-05-23T05:17:24","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T05:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.surveycrest.com\/blog\/?p=2743"},"modified":"2016-05-23T05:17:24","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T05:17:24","slug":"memorial-day-travel-statistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.surveycrest.com\/blog\/memorial-day-travel-statistics\/","title":{"rendered":"[INFOGRAPHIC] Travel Statistics For Memorial Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Memorial Day is almost here! Better break out that barbecue  grill early. More of your relatives or friends will probably be flying over to  your state than you know. According to AAA&rsquo;s CEO Marshall Doney, &ldquo;Americans are  eagerly waiting the start of summer and are ready to travel in numbers not seen  in more than a decade. The great American roads trip is officially back thanks  to low gas prices and millions of people from coast to coast are ready to kick  off summer with a Memorial Day getaway.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Memorial Day is celebrated on the last Monday in May. Like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.surveycrest.com\/blog\/the-purple-heart-day\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Purple Heart Day<\/strong><\/a>,  this day also honors soldiers who take part in active service.\u00a0 And Americans are expected to hit the road  and fly the skies in droves before and during it. Of course, if you plan to  travel yourself, it doesn&rsquo;t hurt to prepare early. <\/p>\n<p>How much will you have to pay for car rentals and airfare  before Memorial Day 2016? How much was the price of gas last on Memorial Day  last year? <\/p>\n<p>Check out these stats from Memorial Days past and present. <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.surveycrest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Travel-Statistics-For-Memorial-Day.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.surveycrest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Travel-Statistics-For-Memorial-Day.png\" alt=\"Memorial Day\" title=\"Travel Statistics For Memorial Day\" width=\"650\" height=\"3051\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2744\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.surveycrest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Travel-Statistics-For-Memorial-Day.png 1000w, https:\/\/www.surveycrest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Travel-Statistics-For-Memorial-Day-64x300.png 64w, https:\/\/www.surveycrest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Travel-Statistics-For-Memorial-Day-768x3605.png 768w, https:\/\/www.surveycrest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Travel-Statistics-For-Memorial-Day-218x1024.png 218w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Embed this Infographic on your site using the html below:<\/h3>\n<p><code id=\"copytext\">&lt;br \/&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:\/\/www.surveycrest.com\/blog\/memorial-day-travel-statistics\/&quot;&gt;&lt;br \/&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https:\/\/www.surveycrest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Travel-Statistics-For-Memorial-Day.png&quot; title=&quot;[INFOGRAPHIC] Travel Statistics For Memorial Day&quot; alt=&quot;[INFOGRAPHIC] Travel Statistics For Memorial Day&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; \/&gt;&lt;br \/&gt;&lt;\/a&gt;&lt;\/p&gt;<br \/>\n&lt;p&gt;by &lt;a href=&quot;http:\/\/www.surveycrest.com\/&quot;&gt;Surveycrest.com&lt;\/a&gt;&lt;br \/&gt;<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Memorial Day is almost here! Better break out that barbecue grill early. More of your relatives or friends will probably be flying over to your state than you know. According to AAA&rsquo;s CEO Marshall Doney, &ldquo;Americans are eagerly waiting the start of summer and are ready to travel in numbers not seen in more than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2745,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[329],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-infographics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.surveycrest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.surveycrest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.surveycrest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.surveycrest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.surveycrest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.surveycrest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2746,"href":"https:\/\/www.surveycrest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2743\/revisions\/2746"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.surveycrest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.surveycrest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.surveycrest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.surveycrest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}