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Kimberly Pierceall
Kim grew up in tourist-haven Palm Springs back when then-Mayor Sonny Bono stopped raucous Spring Break revelers and launched the annual film festival. She also remembers when the Aerial Tramway’s cars didn’t spin. Reporting for The Press-Enterprise business section since February 2005, she regularly covers tourism-related news.
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Would a Brothel be Better Business?
The Colony Palms Hotel in Palm Springs, a rehabbed 56-room boutique hotel near downtown that opened last year, got a less than kind review from the LA Times which jokingly suggested the hotel’s owners may have to bring back its…
If Palm Springs Were Cold and Snowy, it Might Be Yakima
Who loves you Palm Springs? Yakima. The generally cold and snowy northwest city has revived its “Welcome to Yakima: The Palm Springs of Washington” sign off Insterstate 82….
Mondrian Stole Your Sexiness, Palm Springs – Want it Back?
A promo for the proposed Mondrian Hotel that’s expected to be built near the Palm Springs Convention Center is online on YouTube.com. I saw it for the first time during a Palm Springs Economic Development Corp. meeting a couple weeks…
The Desert By Any Other Name, is Still Palm Springs
The Palm Springs Desert Resorts Convention and Visitors Authority (perennial winner in the “Longest Name for a Quasi-Government Agency” contest) has apparently scrapped its old slogan “Give in to the Desert” in favor of “Palm Springs California — an Oasis…
Behind the Scenes: The Riviera in Palm Springs
(View of the Riviera as of Jan. 7, 2008. The new fence announces a Fall 2008 opening) If Elvis really is alive and he comes back to his former haunt, the Riviera Resort & Spa in Palm Springs, he’s…
Holiday Inn: Palm Springs Style
So you think you’ve seen a Holiday Inn? You haven’t been to Palm Springs yet. Taking a note from the city’s penchant for and surplus of modern architecture, the just opened Holiday Inn City Center on Highway 111 and Sunrise…
Hard Rock Palm Springs looking for die hard real estate investors
Want to own a piece of the proposed condo-hotel of the Hard Rock Hotel in Palm Springs? Sure the ground has hardly been broken, the city still owns one of the parcels the developers need and now there’s a lawsuit…
Palm Springs scores big on TripAdvisor.com
Admittedly, I didn’t think much of the e-mail I got from a local Palm Springs tourist attraction excited that they landed in the top ten for attractions in the United States and in California on TripAdvisor.com. I had gotten these…
Ritzy Ritz
Rendering of Ritz Carlton Rancho Mirage Every once in awhile I get a kick out of browsing the real estate ads in the Wall Street Journal looking for insanely priced Palm Springs-area properties. Today I ran across an ad…
What the Tourists are Reading: PALM SPRINGS
(Bloomberg News) The Kaufmann House in Palm Springs *Clarification: The tourism organizations typically foot the bill for a travel writer’s experience be it food or hotel or tourist attraction, but don’t pay the travel writers directly. It occured to…