AAA said on Thursday that Florida is projected to experience a decline in travel this Memorial Day weekend compared with 2009.
Florida is projected to see a drop in travel by 4.8 percent from 2009, with 1.3 million people traveling by car, 112,104 by air and 113,730 by other modes, such trains or buses.
The survey was conducted before the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and the Nashville floods, so the impact of those events on travel is unknown, AAA said in a statement.
For the entire U.S., AAA projects a 5.4 percent increase in the number of Americans traveling or 32.1 million compared to 30.5 million who actually traveled last year.
Memorial Day weekend is an auto-heavy travel holiday with more than 87 percent of travelers or 28 million planning to travel via automobile versus the 26.4 million from last year. Air travel is expected to increase by 2.4 percent from last year.
