To make the most of your visit to San Diego, You can request a free San Diego Vacation Planning Kit, published by The San Diego Convention & Visitors Bureau. The information you will receive will help you plan the perfect San Diego getaway.

San Diego is a coastal Southern California city located in the southwestern corner of the continental United States. As of 2006, the city has a population of 1,256,951. It is the second largest city in California and the eighth largest city in the United States. It is the county seat of San Diego County.GR6 and is the economic center of the San Diego–Carlsbad–San Marcos metropolitan area, the 17th-largest metro area in the U.S. with a population of 2.9 million as of 2006, and the 21st largest Metropolitan area in the Americas when including Tijuana (See San Diego-Tijuana Metro.).

San Diego County lies just north of the Mexican border—sharing a border with Tijuana—and lies south of Orange County. It is home to miles of beaches, a mild Mediterranean climate and 16 military facilities hosting the United States Navy, the United States Coast Guard and the United States Marine Corps.

The University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and the affiliated UCSD Medical Center combined with nearby research institutes in the Torrey Pines area of La Jolla make the area influential in biotechnology research. San Diego's economy is largely composed of agriculture, biotechnology/biosciences, computer sciences, electronics manufacturing, defense-related manufacturing, financial and business services, ship-repair and construction, software development, telecommunications, and tourism.

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About SDCVB:

The San Diego Convention & Visitors Bureau (San Diego CVB) is a private, non-profit, mutual benefit corporation composed of approximately 1,100 member organizations, businesses, local governments, and individuals seeking a better community through the visitor industry. San Diego CVB members include tourism-related entities in such categories as lodging, dining, arts & attractions, shopping, and transportation, among others, as well as other companies indirectly involved in the visitor industry.

As a sales and marketing organization, the main objective of San Diego CVB is to promote and market San Diego County as a vacation destination and convention site. San Diego CVB also represents and supports the interests of the visitor industry as a whole. The majority of funding received by San Diego CVB is derived from the Transient Occupancy Tax on hotel rooms. (This tax is levied on all hotel rooms in the county and was originated to support the promotion of the area.) As a membership organization, San Diego CVB also receives financial support from member dues and promotional assistance from the membership through donated in-kind services.

San Diego CVB employs a staff of about 65 full-time people and 20 people on a part-time basis.

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