Here is a look at some travel-related headlines for Friday, Nov. 17, 2023.
News of Note
AAA expects to rescue over 360,000 stranded motorists nationwide over Thanksgiving weekend. The three most common reasons expected for service calls are flat tires, dead batteries, and lockouts. AAA expects more than 49 million Americans to take a Thanksgiving road trip.
According to AccuWeather meteorologists, Mother Nature could complicate travel for millions of Americans in the days leading up to Thanksgiving. As Thanksgiving week gets underway, a large storm could gather over the central and eastern U.S., which may cause a ripple effect of travel disruptions leading up to the holiday. “A storm will develop along a slow-moving cold front and will produce moderate to heavy rain from the Ohio and Tennessee valleys to the East Coast Tuesday,” AccuWeather Long-Range Expert Paul Pastelok said.
Industry News
The business outlook for hotels remains strong for the remainder of 2023 thanks to an uptick in business travel and a healthy preference among business and leisure travelers to stay in hotels. According to a survey commissioned by the American Hotel & Lodging Association and conducted by Morning Consult, 68% of Americans whose jobs involve travel said they were likely to travel overnight for business during the last three months of 2023, up from 59% in 2022. Hotels are the top lodging choice for 81% of business travelers surveyed.
Drink Up
Chattanooga Whiskey has introduced Experimental Batch 034, a pot-distilled bourbon inspired by the flavors of Thanksgiving dessert. It blends 10 “unique high malt mash bills,” and after aging for four to seven years, “seven barrels were married and infused with a combination of roasted pecans, vanilla beans, cacao nibs, coconut flakes and orange peel, before a final addition of dark Belgian candi syrup.”
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