The Associated Press reports on traveling escorts, or “Circuit Girls,” who are heading to Arizona this week to find customers in town for the Super Bowl.

Circuit girls are part of a clandestine sex trade that depends on their ability to blend with the wealthy. Unlike local street hookers, they’ll navigate the high-dollar crowd with ease, tapping men on the shoulder with little more than an innocent suggestion on their lips.

“I would walk up to them and ask them directions or some kind of help,” Miller said.

In Jacksonville, Fla., which hosted the Super Bowl in 2005, Roy Henderson, chief of narcotics in the Jacksonville sheriff’s department, said his officers arrested about a dozen circuit girls after staff at one of the city’s major hotels called to complain.

“I don’t know if you can spot them,” Henderson said. “A lot of times they’re very attractive. They dress well, where typically your street walker is in blue jeans, flannel shirt, rough looking. Those are the ones we’re picking up time and time again.”

The article quoted a prostitute stating the expected hourly rate that she was charging for the weekend.

“It’s a big deal this year,” said Tammy Marie Pagel, a 31-year-old local hooker who was recently jailed in Phoenix but was scheduled to be released the week before the Super Bowl.

Pagel said she had a number of high-paying clients waiting. She counted them on her fingers: one from Colorado, one from Massachusetts, one from Florida, one from Tennessee.

The johns saw her ad on the Craigslist Web site and set up appointments before setting foot in Arizona, Pagel said. Each will pay $500 to $600 for an hour with her — several times what she typically charges.