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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.