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It's nice to imagine that the success of your career rests upon your basic competence at doing your job, but that's only half the picture.

Jo-Ann Stores is posting impressive sales and earnings numbers and is an example of a retail sector on which Walmart doesn't have a steel grip.

Even smart people make financial moves that are downright illogical. Emotions and superstitions have a sneaky way of keeping you from rational financial decisions. But dumb choices can have serious, real-world consequences. Here are some of the biggest blunders we all make, plus tips from the experts on how to keep cool.

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Kimberly PierceallKim 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.

Tourism Blog Travels to the Business Blog! Doesn't Get Jet-Lag
The Press-Enterprise will launch a business blog on Monday after noon.

Lucky for me - I'll be joined by my esteemed colleagues who will be posting about a variety of topics in addition to my regular news and updates about tourism.

I hope you'll keep reading and bookmark our new site: www.pe.com/blogs/business

See you there.

- Kim
You Aren't Going to Vegas Often Enough

So apparently we Southern Californians are partly to blame for Las Vegas feeling a little down and out economically.

The Las Vegas Review-Journal recently wrote that the city's convention and visitors authority had greenlighted a $12 million marketing campaign dubbed "Vegas Right Now" to appeal to folks who may otherwise look at their bills and think, "now might not be the best time to go to Vegas." Already, the tourist destination that garnered 39.1 visitors last year is seeing a slowdown. In January, the city saw less of almost everything (see the stats here)

From the Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Research presented during the authority's monthly meeting, however, showed declines in arrivals and departures at McCarran International Airport, decreasing traffic from Southern California and a dip in casino gambling revenue.
Non-stop flight from Ontario to Las Vegas: $98 one way, average.

Cost of the shuttle to and from the airport: $12

What? You want to drive instead? (470 miles roundtrip from Ontario to Las Vegas, average cost of regular gas $3.63 a gallon, I'll be generous and say you get 25 miles to the gallon): $68.24

Gambling money: $100 to more debt than a four-year college education

Hotel room: $100 a night, if you're lucky. (I was indeed lucky recently and traveled to Vegas with my roommate who also is a member of a slew of casino card clubs. Two weekend nights in New York, New York: $80 total)

But when it comes down to it -- what would get you to go to Vegas? And is there really any need to go, what with numerous tribal casinos nearby?

Links:
Las Vegas Review-Journal
Jaunted's take on Vegas' new campaign
Riverside Hotel on Hold

Construction of the Hyatt Place in downtown Riverside won't start until June according to developer Siavash Barmand with MetroPacific Properties, the same firm revitalizing the downtown Fox Theater.

While the city and the developer expected a groundbreaking this month after the project was delayed since last summer (click on the link below to read more), Siavash said Friday that the project's environmental impact review still needs to be finished.

I had spoken to a few hotel industry experts for this story regarding the state of hospitality in this wild economy of ours.

Most felt the same way -- that if a hotel developer hadn't started contructing a hotel yet, it wouldn't necessarily be hard to finish but it would certainly be unlikely. Part of the challenge is initial construction loan financing. At least one hotel broker noticed that projects trying to pay off their contruction loans with permanent financing are having difficulty getting lenders to loosen enough cash to cover their debt. Others said hotel developers with well-established relationships with lenders who can prove their project is viable shouldn't have too much trouble getting financing.

Siavash said he already has about 95 percent of his funding in place, and rather then get a construction loan first that has to be paid off later, "we're locking in our permanent financing up front."
UPDATE: Parking Gets Pricier at Ontario Airport
(The Press-Enterprise/2003)

LA/Ontario International Airport will hike its parking rates a couple bucks starting April 1 with the hope it will net $2.6 million more in revenues each year for a total of $23 million.

So what price should you expect next time you park at Ontario after April 1?

Lots 2 and 4
Current rate: $15 per day/$2 per hour for first 7 hours/$1 for the eighth hour
New rate: $17 per day/$2 per hour for the first 8 hours/$1 for the ninth hour

Lot 3
Current rate: $11 per day/$2 per hour for the first 5 hours/$1 for the sixth hour
New rate: $12 per day/$2 per hour for the first 6 hours

Lot 5
Current rate:$7 per day/$2 per hour for the first 3 hours/$1 for the fourth hour
New rate: $8 per day/$2 per hour for the first 4 hours

Lot F
Current rate: $6 per day/first 2 hours free/$2 per hour for third, fourth and fifth hours
New rate: $7 per day/first2 hours free/$2 per hour for third, fourth and fifth hours/$1 for the sixth hour

For the full reasoning behind the price increase, check out the staff report here from the March 3 board meeting of the Los Angeles World Airports group (pages 56 to 62).

Park 'N Fly, an off-site lot near the airport, has taken the price hike opportunity to tout their parking rates -- $9.50 per day which includes a shuttle ride to your terminal, a copy of USA Today and a pair of booties to wear through security.
Please Sir, Can I Have a Little Legroom?
More legroom? No problem! That'll be $10 more bucks.

JetBlue has an ingenious plan to make more money in the coming year as airlines hemorrhage from rising oil costs. Charge folks sitting in the front of the plane or in the exit row a little bit more for the luxury of leg room.

I'm not sure how much they'll eventually charge for the wiggle room but the airline's CEO told folks at a New York investment conference that that's his revenue plan going forward.

It's not entirely new. Other airlines like recently launched Virgin America charge a premium too.

Personally, I like the exit row's roominess, but a little part of me always gets a little on edge thinking "what if I really DO need to assist in case of an emergency this time?" And that is why you deserve the roominess because you MAY be called on to provide a serious service. It's like you're paying your boss for the privilege of working for him/her.
Smoky Skies are Going to Clear Up
Having just gotten back from a weekend in Las Vegas and gone through the ritual of throwing nearly everything I brought with me into the washing machine to eradicate the smell of cigars and cigarettes, I thought a press release from the Agua Caliente Casino outside Rancho Mirage off Interstate 10 had oddly good timing.

The casino announced it had installed an air purification system dubbed Bio-Oxygen that doesn't rely on perfumes and chemicals. Casino officials claim its the only casino in California to have such a system. Personally I've never smelled chemicals or perfumes in any of the other Inland casinos, but I have smelled cigarette smoke.

The casino's director of facilities, Jake Britton, said their system that was installed about six months ago makes the casino "virtually smoke free."

“If you walk into a casino and you pass someone who is smoking, within seven to 15 seconds that smoke is absorbed by oxygen clusters," he said.

I'm hoping to check out the casino soon to see

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