Article: Panama City Beach, Fla., Approves Online Tourism Marketing Strategy.

By Valerie Nienberg, The News Herald, Panama City, Fla. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Jun. 3--PANAMA CITY BEACH, Fla. You might call it online guerilla marketing, or high-tech hijacking.

Tourism officials on Wednesday approved two marketing strategies that lure Internet surfers to Panama City Beach Web sites -- even if it wasn't their original intent. One plan is for Spring Break 2005 and the other covers the remainder of the year.

The Panama City Beach Convention and Visitors Bureau gave its youth-marketing firm, Mr. Youth, the green light to proceed with a $400,000 Spring Break marketing plan, almost 20 percent of which will be ...

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