Atlantic City may be "America's Favorite Playground" but this seaside resort city can also cater to business junkets and corporate events with equal aplomb. Not only is the city able to accommodate professional conferences, seminars and other events, it's courting big business by building more professional venues.

The Atlantic City Convention Center was built at a cost of $268 million, making it one of the largest and most sophisticated facilities in the nation. This 31-acre center hosts trade shows, conventions and business meetings for groups of all sizes, with 500,000 square feet of contiguous exhibition space and 109,100 square feet of flexible meeting space. Its close proximity to New York, Philadelphia and Boston makes the ACCC an ideal location to which event planners can draw attendees, exhibitors and customers. The center offers a planning guide with sales information to sell Atlantic City to potential attendees, materials to make your delegates' convention more enjoyable and a guide to the local attractions, dining, shopping and historic sites around the city.

Convention Services staff will also help coordinate spouse programs, VIP receptions, housing, group tours and professional show support staff such as cashiers, greeters and data entry operators.

Atlantic City is the perfect backdrop for your business meeting or trade show. Conventioneers can get group rates to music and sports events at Boardwalk Hall. Meeting and event planners can book a private suite at this recently renovated venue to provide their colleagues, customers and investors exclusive premium seating. Well Bread caterers will provide sumptuous luncheons or buffets for your corporate clients, designing the ideal menu and helping you enhance the reserved setting through innovative theming and decor.

Teambuilding activities could include rounds of golf at any of numerous championship courses in the area. Many golf clubs in Atlantic City sport elegant clubhouses whose rooms are perfect for intimate meetings or large corporate events. International blue chip corporations such as IBM, BMW, MetLife and Morgan-Stanley have held successful functions at the Seaview Marriott Resort and Spa. A double deck range at the Olde Masters Golf Center can accommodate 96 golfers at once, making it a great location for a corporate outing.

Of course, there's also plenty of quality hotel lodging, gambling, fine dining and entertainment to entice your business partners and potential clients to come view your products and services or take a meeting by the sea. But the amount of help you'll get to plan your event in Atlantic City is unparalleled. Plus, all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.