Pensacola, Perdido Key to be featured on Discovery Channel's "Adventure Cities"

Pensacola, Pensacola Beach and Perdido Key will be featured on the Discovery Channel's "Adventure Cities" program at 7:30 a.m. on Sunday.

"Adventure Cities" host Jonathan Thompson searches for adventures and features the cultures, allures and attractions of the world's most fascinating urban centers.

Visit Pensacola pitched the local communities to Thompson and once they were selected, funded the production and crew expenses. As an additional part of the paid promotion, Thompson produced a 1,500-word piece on the community in The Sunday Times.

Visit Pensacola is the destination organization for Escambia County, which includes Pensacola, Pensacola Beach and Perdido Key and supports the community vision of tourism by serving as the central body responsible for building tourism as an economic engine the community.

This article originally appeared on Pensacola News Journal: Adventure Cities: Pensacola, Perdido Key featured on Discovery Channel