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CMP: Certified Meeting Professional
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1. AKA Group Specification Guide or Resume. Spec Guide. The industry preferred term for a comprehensive document that outlines the complete requirements and instructions for an event. This document is typically authored by the event planner and is share
Schoolroom set-up
Platform
Indirect costs
Group specifications guide
2. A media campaign - normally consisting of a series of public notices and advertising activities - aimed at ensuring maximum attendance by focusing attention on an event.
Front projection
Consideration
Publicity
Butler service
3. An alternative plan that may replace the original plan when circumstances change.
Platform
Pipe & drape
Contingency plan
Official carrier
4. Used to sell products through a Web site. An online shopping cart application allows customers to select and then purchase books - tapes and other items.
Balance sheet
Good faith
Function set-up order
Shopping cart
5. Mandatory continuning education requirements for legal professionals are adminstered by the American Bar Association (ABA).
Exhibitor-appointed contractor (EAC)
Marketing plan
V-shape set-up
Mandatory Continuing Legal Education (MCLE)
6. A voluntary payment added to a bill (e.g. a restaurant check) - to signify good service.
Digital marketing
Rooming list
Gratuity
Conflict of interest statement
7. Minimum amount for which union labor must be paid.
Direct billing
ISDN
Chat room
Minimum labor call
8. A customs document permitting the holder to carry or send merchandise temporarily into certain foreign countries (for display - demonstration or similar purposes) without paying duties or posting bonds.
Carnet
Two-tiered set-up
Concession
Protocol
9. Company that fabricates displays.
Waiver of subrogation
Direct billing
Exhibit house
Covers
10. Land-based system for videoconferencing designed to manage communication between one group of people - usually in a conference room setting - with another group or groups in similar settings elsewhere.
CODEC
Room-based videoconferencing
Colloquium
Application service provider (ASP)
11. American Society of Composers - Authors - and Publishers. A membership organization that represents individuals who hold the copyrights to music written in the United States and grants licensing agreements for the performance of that music.
American Society of Composers - Authors and Publishers (ASCAP)
Destination Marketing Association International
Exhibitor-appointed contractor (EAC)
Billing instructions
12. Facility form to advise departments of changes in reservations or functions.
Hardwall
Lifelong learning
LED Light Emitting Diode
Change order
13. Solicitation of opinions regarding services; questionnaire.
Survey
Income statement
Logistics
Line level
14. ASP. A company that manages and distributes software-based solutions to customers across a wide area network from a central data center. In essence - ASPs are a way for organizations to outsource some or almost all aspects of their information techno
Truckload
Network
Complimentary
Application service provider (ASP)
15. A release of rights to substitute one party for another party. The release of an insurance company right to succeed to the insured's rights to sue for damages against the tortfeasor - after the insurance company pays an insured's claim of loss due to
Hardwall
Waiver of subrogation
Post-event report PER
Complimentary room
16. Labor performed and paid at standard rate for work during normal business hours as established by unions.
Air waybill
In conjunction with (ICW)
Conference center
Straight time
17. An insurance policy that provides protection against claims involving bodily injury and property damage to third parties.
Desktop videoconferenceing (DVC)
Freight forwarder
General liability insurance
Straight time
18. Movie - slide - or computer image presentation where the screen is between the viewer and the projector. Often used in terms of a FRONT PROJECTION SCREEN which is translucent to images being projected from the rear and can be viewed from the front.
Rear projection
Social host
Post-con
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
19. Americans with Disabilities Act. U.S. legislation passed in 1992 requiring public buildings (offices - hotels - restaurants - etc.) to make adjustments meeting minimum standards to make their facilities accessible to individuals with physical disabil
Shuttle service
Indirect costs
Interface
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
20. Contractor retained by a facility to be on-site and provide services as needed. In some cases - Planners are not required to use their services - but may be charged a surcharge or facility fee for bringing in an outside contractor for the same servic
Workshop
LCD projector
In-house contractor
U-shape set-up
21. A stand upon which a speaker may rest notes or books. May be "standing -" which rests on the floor - or "table-top" which is placed on a table. Often confused with PODIUM.
Accommodation
Exhibition service contractor
High season
Lectern
22. Official authorization or approval; to provide with credentials; to send (an envoy) with letters of authorization; to recognize or vouch for as conforming with a standard; to recognize a college as maintaining academic standards; to consider or recog
Rigging
T-3 line
Theater set-up
Accreditation
23. Placing plated foods on banquet tables prior to seating guests.
Feedback
Tip
Pre-set
Exhibitor Advisory Committee
24. A Web-site whose primary function is to provide attendees (buyers) and exhibitors (sellers) with online tools that help facilitate participation in an upcoming event.
Production company
Trade show facilitation website
Schoolroom set-up
Meeting Information Network (MINT)
25. EAC. Any company other than the designated "official" contractor providing a service to an exhibitor. Can refer to an Install & Dismantle Company (I&D House) - photographer - florist or any other type of contractor.
French cart service
Exhibitor-appointed contractor (EAC)
Lot labeling
Association of Destination Management Executives (ADME)
26. Flat rate for which a hotel or motel agrees to offer any of its available sleeping rooms (with the exception of suites) to a group. Final assignment of rooms is at the discretion of the hotel. See RUN-OF-THE-HOUSE RATE.
Butler service
Jurisdiction
Flate rate
Event profile
27. MAP. A type of room rate that includes breakfast and one other meal (usually dinner).
Modified American Plan
Official carrier
Concession
Union
28. A sleeping room or function room provided to an individual or organization at no cost. See COMPLIMENTARY RATIO.
Audiovisual A/V
Complimentary room
Secure digital certificate
Exclusive
29. Portable videoconferencing system - usually mounted on a rolling cart or hard-sided case for ease of transport from room to room or across the globe.
Set top box solutions (STBS)
LED Light Emitting Diode
Breakout session
E-conferencing
30. Names and contact information of potential customers. Attendee lists are often provided as sales leads to exhibitors as an incentive to participate in an exhibition.
Sales lead
Cut-off date
Packing list
Set top box solutions (STBS)
31. Web sites that give visitors a reason to return to the site and be exposed to new offers.
Unopposed exhibit hours
Room block
Chat room
Cash accounting
32. Raising and supporting sound - lighting or other equipment or décor from the ceiling.
Flying
Export license
Computer data projection
Incremental budgeting
33. Weblogs or online journals. An application that may change the face of event marketing.
PAR
Green event
Caterer
Blog
34. An extraordinary natural event such as extreme weather - flood - hurricanes - tornadoes - earthquake or similar natural disaster that cannot be reasonably foreseen or prevented over which a contracting party has no reasonable control - making perform
Act of God
Break-even point
International event
Tone
35. In-person on-site review and evaluation of a venue or location for an event.
Professional
ite inspection
Market segments
Multidisciplinary
36. Airline company designated airline of choice for an event in exchange for special rates or services.
Official carrier
Interview
Banquet event order (BEO)
Special event professional
37. Digital light processor data/video projectors were developed with an entirely new processor using microscopic mirrors to recreate video images and display them in a number of settings. These projectors picked up where LCD left off by reproducing vide
DLP projector
Peninsula booth
Confrontation
Production company
38. A supplier of a specific event service - such as photography - rental of furniture or audiovisual equipment - or floral decoration.
Specialty contractor
History
Opt-out
Protocol
39. A promise - proposal or other expression of willingness to make and carry out a contract under proposed terms with another party which has the ability to accept it upon receiving it. Space and rent proposal from a facility. It may be in the form of a
Interview
Offer
Continental breakfast
Mic level
40. Booking before an event takes places. Allows attendees to register for an event before it actually takes place. Done through mail - phone - internet or fax.
Indirect costs
Freight forwarder
In-house contractor
Advance registration
41. Method to increase audience participation by dividing all participants in discussion groups each of which reports the group's findings and opinions during a following plenary session.
Covers
Buzz session
Group ware
Offer
42. CSM. Professional at a hotel - convention center or convention bureau who is responsible for event operations management on all levels.
Contingency plan
Leko
Consideration
Convention services manager (CSM)
43. Supplier of booth/stand equipment - rental furnishings - floor coverings - labor - drayage and signs for exhibitions and trade shows. See GENERAL SERVICE CONTRACTOR.
Line level
Pre-registration
Exhibitor Advisory Committee
Exhibition service contractor
44. 1) The governmental authorities designated to collect duties levied by a country on imports and exports. The term also applies to the procedures involved in such collection. 2) Practices common to many of a particular group.
Contract
Schoolroom set-up
Exclusive contractor
Customs
45. 1) A research method based upon selecting a portion of a population for study. 2) Paperwork and fees paid to a building by exhibitors for the right to serve food product.
American Bar Association (ABA)
Sampling
Arbitration
Good faith
46. RFP. A document that stipulates what services the organization wants from an outside contractor and requests a bid to perform such services. Same As BID MANUAL/SPECIFICATIONS.
Change order
Request for proposal (RFP)
Minimum labor call
Fresnel
47. An email marketing campaign that only sends messages to users who have requested (or opted-in) to receive specific types of information. Email conference reminders and newsletters are examples of opt-in email marketing campaigns based upon permission
Opt-in
Exhibitor Advisory Committee
Mixer
Balance sheet
48. 1) Some Web-based content such as event Webcasts are made available to online customers on a pay-per-view basis - which means that customers have to pay to access this programming. 2) Video productions accessible to customers who pay for access to th
Mixer
Pay-per-view
Confrontation
Cluster
49. In Conjunction With. An event or function that occurs because of another event.
Trade-out
Production company
Release date
In conjunction with (ICW)
50. The industry preferred term for a report of the details and activities of an event. A collection of post event reports over time will provide the complete History for an event. The industry accepted practice is to use the APEX POST EVENT REPORT - whi
Rigging
Straight time
Post-event report PER
Zone fare