Raven it is not an experience issue. It is however a "keeping my piece of the pie" issue. Most of these folks want something that will benefit there own business. After living in PCB for 10 years I watched it with gapping jaw. First all of the locals decided that spring break was a bad idea (never really a group just the opinion of local businessmen) who then made millions bull dozing dumpy motels and errecting huge condos. Now 10 years after the "tranformation" the TDC is still dumping money on marketing companies for spring break. Why? After all of that they finally realized that spring breakers from colleges spend vastly more then spring breaking families. Whether beer, cigarettes, food, or clothing college kids will spend more than families. I'm not against families, I would much rather deal with them than drunk over entitled college kids, but families generally do not eat out every meal and watch there pocket books more closely.
None of these business men seems to understand that the overall good a cohesive cross county, cross TDC, joint marketing effort would do for the area. They are all worried that if they do this people who traditionally go to PCB might hear about Destin and go there. They never consider the vice versa and only look at it as spening money there money to market a different area. The PCB TDC will not allow my company to put flyers in there lobby unless it only says PCB. All of the other TDC's have no problem with us saving money by listing all of the locations we serve. Might as well bang your head on a wall, cause it's not likely to change anytime soon.
