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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 me my mention of it below might be misleading.

Palm Springs is heading into its season (the beginning of the six or seven months that make it bearable, downright enjoyable to call the desert home) and so begins the season for stories about the resort town usually a result of local tourism groups like the Palm Springs Bureau of Tourism or Palm Springs Convention and Visitors Authority paying travel writers to visit and enjoy.

Here's a sampling of what's popped up in media nationwide:

Palm Springs When it Sizzles Will Get You the Cool Prices
Mary Lu Laffey with Rand McNally Travel News visited during the shoulder season and partook of the usual landmarks -- the Palm Springs Aerial Tram, a modern home tour, a lunch trip to Sherman's Deli -- but seemed most facinated by the water misters outside most storefronts during the "I-didn't-know-I-could-sweat-this-much-without-moving" season. She also took in a tour from Elite Land Tours, stayed at the Viceroy and dined at Melvyn's.

The '50s Live in Palm Springs
Gary Werner for the O.C. Register only makes one reference to Palm Springs being a town for the aged. The rest, written with a little more flair than the story above, focuses on the area's modern architecture from the Eisenhower era and specifically the Orbit In, a boutique hotel near town that revels in 1950s modernism.