BRANSON — Business owners here are hopeful that while high gas prices may keep some visitors from showing up this summer, they’ll more than makeup for it with Midwestern tourists looking to stay close to home. Sitting within a day’s drive of a third of the country, the resort town’s tourism industry has weathered past fuel crunches
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Tuesday, May 29, 2007 | 12:00 a.m. CDT;
updated 12:40 a.m. CDT, Thursday, July 3, 2008
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