Fort Lauderdale warmly welcomes business professionals as well as vacationers with a chic, yet comfortably-casual attitude. The vibe is friendly, sunny, sophisticated…never stuffy. Nicknamed Venice of America for its beautiful Intracoastal Waterway, the city of Fort Lauderdale is part of the Greater Miami Area – the seventh-largest metro area in the U.S. – offering a wealth of pleasures by land or sea just minutes from the airport terminal.