I cannot believe Panama City allows their city to be taken over for weeks at a time because of a few business owners. Fort Lauderdale used to be the college spring break destination but those people decided they didn’t want it.
I travel to the area some on business but avoid the place during spring and summer.
Panama City Beach is a separate municipality from Panama City. While a few very large "clubs" have profited from Spring Break, most businesses have suffered because of rampant theft and vandalism, or because they wisely closed to avoid further loss. What was once manageable has turned to intolerable anarchy, especially since large packs of lawless Democrat predators now flock there to sleep in their cars, use the ground as their bathroom, steal, and prey upon all the drunk white college girls. And now Freaknik has descended on PCB after being run off from Atlanta and Daytona Beach. Bay County is a very Conservative jurisdiction with an excellent sheriff and good judges; local citizens and their leaders have had enough and will act to drive these out-of-control events elsewhere.