Sarasota tourism in the headlights

  • By Business Observer Staff
  • | 11:52 a.m. October 14, 2011
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Forest equipment and agriculture tractor firm John Deere has dealt the Sarasota-Bradenton tourism industry a big blow: It moved its 2012 annual dealer conference, a three-week parade of product displays, seminars and live demonstrations, to suburban Orlando.

 

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