Kimberly Pierceall
Working Holiday
Two weeks without travel commentary is two weeks too long.
What did we miss while I was preparing for and recuperating from the Coachella Music & Arts Festival?
From the Department-of-Obvious-Press-Releases: "While most resorts are raising their rates in the summer," the Hyatt Grand Champions in Indian Wells is doing the exact opposite! The press release fails to mention the going rate of temperatures in the Coachella Valley during that time which hover somewhere between "Get me air-conditioning, stat!" to "Are my thighs fused to the driver's seat?"
Palm Springs area hotels typically drop rates during the summer.
The San Bernardino Convention and Visitors Bureau fresh from choosing 10-year-old Katriona Kennedy to be the voice of its animatronic bear -- hired Wayne Austin, former general manager of the Lake Arrowhead Resort, to be its president and chief executive officer.
Temecula hosted wine tours for attendees of the annual International Pow Wow. (That's the name the Travel Industry Association gave it, folks.) Here the OC Register talks more about the event that brought in thousands of tour operators, travel writers and destinations trying to sell themselves, including the Palm Springs Desert Resorts Convention and Visitors Authority. (Ignore the odd racist ranting in the comment section below the story.)
In other news:
The Hotel Zoso in Palm Springs filed for bankruptcy
Palm Springs fired the director of the Palm Springs International Airport
-- KIMBERLY PIERCEALL
kpierceall@PE.com
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