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COPYRIGHT 2005 The Miami Herald
Byline: Douglas Hanks Iii, Evelyn Mcdonn
Aug. 26--Hurricane Katrina swamped South Florida's tourism economy on Thursday, as airports went idle, vacationers who could went home and MTV's Moonman went down.
The cable channel's Video Music Awards this weekend were supposed to be the glitzy climax to a spectacular summer tourism season. Then Katrina demonstrated the perils of planning a huge party smack dab in the middle of hurricane season.
The show will go on Sunday, but many of today's events were canceled, and so were the travel plans of visitors heading in for the four-day run of exclusive soirees and massive bashes.
"I was hoping to fill up my bank account this weekend," said Xavier Lesmarie, owner of South Beach's Hotel Ocean, which saw its weekend...
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