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Show Tourist Travel for 1941 to Be Record Florida Leads in Increases For Winter Season. DETROIT. Tourist travel, stimu-, lated by defense spending and a record rec-ord number of automobile sales, will . be at least 10 per cent higher this year than last, according to a travel authority. E. S. Matheson, travel manager of the Automobile Club of Michi- ' gan, and nationally known travel expert, said that motorists went to the open roads during the winter months in numbers 6 per cent greater great-er than the 1939-40 winter. "Most of the increase was accounted ac-counted for in Florida where travel was 22 per cent over the same period a year ago," Matheson said. The encampment and industrial defense areas of the South were scenes of heavy motor travel. "Motor travel usually drops as employment figures near 100 per cent," the travel authority continued. contin-ued. "Motorists are too busy making mak-ing money to take extended trips and they seek recreational facilities nearer home." It was pointed out that automobile automo-bile production and sales, nearly 500,000 units a month, was giving the motoring public new means of getting to the national highways. Thomas P. Henry, president of the American Automobile association, reported that domestic touring would continue "at boom proportions" propor-tions" while there would be big in-i creases in travel to Canada and Mexico. : Henry said several states were contemplating increases in their tourist advertising expenditures 1 to compete for larger shares of motor vacation expenditures which in 1940 were "well over" $5,000,000,000. All travel records were smashed in 1940 "and there is every likelihood likeli-hood that this large volume will be matched if not exceeded in 1941." Henry said. |