Are you sick of winter yet? Well, the tourism folks for Ithaca & Tompkins County are. They hate this winter so much in fact, they are encouraging people to stop coming to Ithaca and go straight to Florida! This story has gotten national attention and for good reason, I personally think it's hilarious.

This is the post from the Ithaca is Gorges (Ithaca & Tompkins County Tourism) Facebook page:

This is clearly a great publicity stunt to get people to their website, because once you click on the link, it brings you right to their website and there is no mention of Florida on there at all! Way to go Ithaca & Tompkins County!

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