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<p>Oil cleanup workers clean up tar balls on Pensacola Beach, Fla., on Aug. 1. The lingering economic recession, a record cold Florida winter and the effects of the Gulf oil spill stalled the tourist traffic this year in parts of Florida.</p>

<p>Oil cleanup workers clean up tar balls on Pensacola Beach, Fla., on Aug. 1. The lingering economic recession, a record cold Florida winter and the effects of the Gulf oil spill stalled the tourist traffic this year in parts of Florida.</p>

December 19, 2010

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Florida tourism industry reeling from dismal year
December 19, 2010 8 p.m.

Florida tourism industry reeling from dismal year

MADEIRA BEACH, Fla. - The Hubbard family, owners of a marina complex and seafood restaurant on Florida's Gulf coast near Tampa, would just as soon forget that 2010 ever happened.