Alternative meeting destination spotlight: San Diego productive meetings can be relaxing too.

Located on a 44-acre tropical island in the heart of San Diego, Paradise Point Resort & Spa is an ideal destination for business travelers and meeting professionals to be productive and relax. Whether it's a small executive retreat or a national sales meeting, Paradise Point Resort's award-winning sales and conference service staff aim to create the perfect environment for success.

Featuring 37,000 square feet of flexible and spacious meeting facilities, including 27 meeting and banquet rooms, the award-winning Paradise Point Resort & Spa contains dramatic outdoor settings, such as "Paradise Point" and "Paradise Lawn," which offer spectacular bay views, while "Mission Bay Lawn" and "Pine Hill" feature lush, tropical garden surroundings. An on-site Audio Visual staff provides comprehensive support for any type of meeting or banquet event.

The resort's meeting facilities include the 7,500-square-foot Sunset Ballroom, and can accommodate up to 650 banquet-style, 775 theater-style or 550-schoolroom style with exceptional views of Mission Bay. The Paradise Ballroom totals over 10,000 square feet and offers the flexibility to be divided into 12 separate conference rooms. An additional 25 conference rooms can provide business executives and meeting engagers with a variety of configurations to host meetings, catered events, multimedia video conferencing, staged productions, and smaller symposiums. For more extensive programs and exhibits, a tented pavilion of up to 20,000 square feet can be erected adjacent to the conference center.

Relaxation and stress relief are critical factors involved in the success of any group meeting, and the resort's spa aims to address those needs. Spa-Terre is an Indonesian-themed spa offering guests unique cross-cultural experiences, including hot stone massage therapy, milk and honey body treatment, extensive facial care, and a full-service salon. The state-of-the-art fitness center offers Pre-cor and Cybex workout equipment, free-weights and on-site personal trainers with separate men's and women's locker facilities featuring a dry sauna and eucalyptus-infused steam room in each.

With its one-of-a-kind location in San Diego, groups can take advantage of the Corporate Fitness Program, which consists of a wide variety of team- building activities, including Ice Breakers, Fitness Breaks, Power Walks, Sailing Regattas, Putting Golf Tournaments, Sandcastle Building, Mini-Olympics and more.

Known as the largest aquatic park of its kind in California, Mission Bay is the ideal location for water skiing, swimming, sailing and power boating, and rentals are available at the resort's marina. Those who prefer to remain on land can enjoy a game of tennis or basketball, a round of golf at the 18-hole putting golf course, or bike rentals. The property also features 5 swimming pools, including a lagoon pool with a sandy beach area.

Information for this article was provided by Paradise Point Resort & Spa. For more information, please call [phone] or toll-free [phone] or visit www.paradisepoint.com.