Find the spark of productivity you’re looking for on the 32 miles of white sugar sand beaches at Gulf Shores and Orange Beach. With the beautiful turquoise blue of the Gulf of Mexico as your back drop, creating programming for a productive, interactive and memorable board retreat, meeting or convention brings you to a whole other state of engagement. Our experienced sales professionals utilize their extensive knowledge of the area to save you time and resources - matching you with the ideal property and activities that best suit your meeting goals. Our meeting and accommodation options can serve the needs of 20 up to 2000 attendees. These include a full service convention hotel, limited service properties with ample meeting space, a conference center with tradeshow opportunities and luxury condominium resorts with meeting space and catering on site. We will procure proposals on your behalf, arrange site visits of the properties and the area and help you find the right free time or team building activities, including golf, charter fishing, sailing excursions, nature outings, spa and shopping. When you have chosen our destination for your next meeting, we are happy to assist with attendance boosting ideas such as creating virtual postcards for your use and providing links to your online registration. Gulf Shores and Orange Beach are located on the west tip of the Panhandle region, just south of Mobile, AL and is within a day’s drive of most southeastern cities. The destination is located on 32 miles of white, sugar sand beaches along the Gulf of Mexico and is home to many state and regional association meetings. Additionally, Board of Directors and sales incentive groups find the area an ideal location for productive and rewarding meetings. The area is easily reached via the Pensacola and Mobile airports, or by corporate jet at the Jack Edwards National Airport. Let our staff help you plan your next successful meeting! 2013 Awards: Finalist in Budget Travel Coolest Town Category (Voting ends Feb 2013) 2012 Awards: Facebook fans of The Weather Channel voted the Gulf Shores and Orange Beach area as the best kid-friendly beach National Resources Defense Council named two local beaches to the top 12 five-star vacation beach destinations for water quality Southern Living ranked Orange Beach in its list of 10 best weekend getaways Coastal Living named West Beach in Gulf Shores as one of the 21 best beaches Southern Living listed the area among its list of 55 Memorable Road Trips Trailer Life (RV magazine) placed Gulf State Park on its list of 10 Beach Camping Hotspots Budget Travel named the area to its list of 23 American Beaches You Want to be on Right Now USA Today’s article “Just for Summer: 51 Great American Beaches” includes the Alabama Gulf Coast MainStreet.com ranked Orange Beach-based business Sailaway Charters to its list of the 10 Best Lake and River Cruises in the US TRIPinfo.com’s Resource Atlas and Handbook named the Gulf State Park Pier to its list of the top 36 piers in the USA The American Bus Association named the National Shrimp Festival to its list of the top 100 events in North America for 2013 Budget Travel ranked Orange Beach to its list of America’s 10 Best Winter Beach Retreats The 2012 Vacation Guide for Gulf Shores & Orange Beach Tourism won Folio Magazine’s Silver Award for the best use of photography in publications with distribution between 100,000 and 200,000 ConventionSouth readers included Gulf Shores & Orange Beach Tourism as one of the Alabama winners in the 2012 Readers’ Choice Awards Gulf Shores ranked as one of the top 10 travel destinations searched on Yahoo! Travel and was thus named to the list of America’s Most Popular Attractions in 2012