Convention center seeks business (The Desert Sun) Two years after its debut, the $44.6 million Palm Springs Convention Center expansion has fallen short of its promise to bring more groups and economic punch to the Coachella Valley. A Desert Sun analysis of public documents and extensive interviews with local officials shows bed tax revenue has dropped and hotel booking goals for 2007.
Nose job saved my life (icNewcastle - Sunday Sun) A WOMAN has revealed how booking a nose job could have saved her life. Lisa Whitehead had arranged cosmetic surgery at a clinic in Cyprus. But she was devastated when pre-op tests uncovered every woman?s worst nightmare... that she had breast cancer.
An Inspector Calls, and Hotels Listen (New York Times) Hotel ratings are often a maze of confusion, aggravated in recent years by online travel booking sites that often use customers? comments to rate accommodations.