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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
Indemnification clause
Tip
Event specifications guide (ESG)
Market segments
2. A type of digital telecommunication line that provides high speed internet access for mulitple users.
ISDN
Lifelong learning
Advance deposit
Mandatory Continuing Legal Education (MCLE)
3. In the United States - a legal term for laws covering the liability of people serving alcoholic beverages. Under dram shop laws - a party injured by an intoxicated person can sue establishments contributing to that person's intoxication. Many dram sh
Dram shop laws
Travel agent
Wireless microphone
Indirect costs
4. (Unshielded Twisted Pair Cable or UTP) Usually referred to as Cat 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 or 5 cable. Cat 5 transmits data the fastest. Fast Ethernet requires enhanced Cat 5 cable or Cat 5 to operate at its full potential.
Marketing plan
Lectern
Category cable
Integrated marketing
5. 1) Airline lift into and out of a destination. 2) Capable of being used by people with physical challenges and disabilities. This is an important aspect of the United States' Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
Accessibility
Bid
Backbone
Commission
6. The rooms that are contracted for by an event organizer with a hotel(s) or housing facility(s) for a particular event.
Break-even point
Event-contracted block (ECB)
Mag-stripe
Continuing Medical Education (CME)
7. The amount of information that can be transmitted in an information channel such as a telephone line - ISDN - or Ethernet. Higher bandwidth means that images and sound will load more quickly for use in videoconferences or on the Internet.
Bandwidth
Override
French cart service
Audience reaction team
8. Amount of money paid to secure a room - facility or service in advance.
Advance deposit
Convention and visitors bureau (CVB)
Customs broker
Change order
9. Apparatus used for projecting photographic slides onto a screen. It will often have a remote (either wired or wireless) that can be used to advance the slides.
Slide
Act of God
National Speakers Association (NSA)
DVCam
10. Required for shipments valued at more than $2500; used by the U.S. government to monitor the dollar volume of export shipments.
Radio frequency identification (RFID)
Acceptance
Liquidated damage clause
Export declaration
11. 1) Servers offer a variety of both hot and cold hors d'oeuvres on platters to guests at receptions. 2) A style of table service where guests serve themselves from platters presented by the server. 3) Specialized in-room service offered by a hotel.
CODEC
Butler service
Green event
Barrier-free
12. 1) Merchandise or refreshments sold on site - to individuals - in conjunction with an event. 2) Contractual agreement where one party provides something of value to the other party in exchange for something else - pending certain conditions.
Walk
Concession
Floor plan
Russian restaurant service
13. The projection of a computer signal from a personal computer - laptop or other computer device onto a screen from a LCD or equivalent projector for viewing by audience.
Computer data projection
Break-even point
Sub-block
Resolution
14. Wooden platform used to carry goods. See SKID.
Assisted listening devices (ALD)
Jurisdiction
Cost center
Pallet
15. Notice as to how charges for an event should be handled and to whom invoices should be addressed.
Billing instructions
Mag-stripe
Lectern
Event specifications guide (ESG)
16. Any group of rooms that is classified or separated differently than the general attendee block within the Event-Contracted Block (ECB).
Exhibitor prospectus
Sub-block
Full American Plan
Green event
17. 1) Banquet Russian: The food is fully prepared in the kitchen. All courses are served either from platters or an escoffier dish. Tureens are used for soup and special bowls for salad. The server places the proper plate in front of the guest. After th
Function set-up order
Low season
Special event professional
Russian banquet service
18. Any agreement which limits who may provide specific products or services under certain conditions to only one party. A general service contractor - for instance - may have an "exclusive" in a particular facility - meaning that no other contractor is
Exclusive
Conference reminder
VHS Video Home System
Request for proposal (RFP)
19. 1) Regeneration of sound from audio speakers back through a microphone causing a squealing sound. 2) Response about an activity - policy - or idea.
Feedback
Post event report
American service
Destination Marketing Association International
20. Company which designs and handles some or all elements of incentive travel programs.
DVCam
Incentive travel company
Pro number
Zone fare
21. A plastic credit card with an embedded integrated circuit chip that can store up to 16 -000 bits of data for lead retrieval and other functions.
Straight-row seating
Air waybill
Smart card
Fixed costs
22. An organization that provides event management and exhibitors with a wide range of services - sometimes including - but not limited to - Installation & Dismantle - creating and hanging signage and banners - laying carpet - drayage - and providing boo
General service contractor GSC
Rigging
T-3 line
Less than truckload
23. The person hired to review the content of advertising or marketing materials for consistency - accuracy - and to elminate repititious information.
Zone fare
Customs broker
Copy editor
Post event report
24. A process of identifying human wants and needs - and developing a plan to meet those wants and needs. Refers to everything involved with convincing an attendee to come to the event. Also refers to providing information to support the exhibit sales fu
Feedback
Straight time
Marketing
Stacked speaker system
25. An organization who locates and books speakers according to my specifications and budget.
Fishbowl
Podcast
Pick-up
Speakers bureau
26. 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.
Platform
Overtime
Shopping cart
Exhibitor service manual
27. AKA Pre Conference.Any event which is arranged for the period immediately preceeding the conference proper.
Force majeure
Press conference
Hundredweight (CWT)
Pre-con
28. Platters of food are composed in the kitchen. Each food item is then served from the guest's left by the server from platters to individual plates. Any course can be 'Frenched' by having the dressing put on the salad or having sauce added to a entrée
Cash accounting
French banquet service
Line level
Pipe & drape
29. BEO. A form most often used by hotels to provide details to personnel concerned with a specific food and beverage function or event room set-up.
Music licensing
Linear booth
Banquet event order (BEO)
Streaming
30. Professional Congress Organizer. European term for DMC (Destination Management Company). Local supplier who can arrange - manage and/or plan any function or service an event.
Press conference
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
Link
Professional congress organizer (PCO)
31. A true and honest effort to uphold the law. (as in Good Faith Effort)
Rounded hollow square
Good faith
Streaming
Service charge
32. Automated External Defibrillator. Device installed in many large public areas (e.g. airports - hotels - convention centers). Can be used by any individual to administer life-saving care to person experiencing a heart attack.
Automated external defibrillator (AED)
Zone fare
Budget
Air waybill
33. Transportation company which handles crated materials; an agency or business that is available to the public for transportation of persons - goods - or messages; usually referring to freight transportation on regularly scheduled trucks or airplanes.
Export declaration
Outsourcing
Post event report
Common carrier
34. Series of tables set up in the shape of the block T with chairs set all around except at the head table.
Hardwall
Lectern
Exhibitor-appointed contractor (EAC)
T-shape set-up
35. 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.
Peripheral block
Lectern
Attrition clause
2-D bar code
36. 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.
Continuing Education Unit (CEU)
Request for proposal (RFP)
Trade show facilitation website
Dais
37. Type of meeting which brings together three or more people in two or more locations through telecommunications.
Certified Special Event Professional (CSEP)
Teleconferencing
Hundredweight (CWT)
Tip
38. AKA CSEP or Certified Special Event Professional - a designation offered by the International Special Events Society (ISES) earned through education - perofrmance - experience - and service to the industry.
Program design
Special event professional
Marketing
Desktop videoconferenceing (DVC)
39. The station which receives data transmissions from a communications satellite.
Limited power of attorney
Consular invoice
Broadband
Downlink
40. The presenter is questioned by a moderator on behalf of the audience.
Interview
Open bar (host bar)
Integrated marketing
lanning committee
41. A company that presents special effects and theatrical acts. This type of company may contract to put on an entire event or only parts of one. They sometimes hire speakers as part of their contract.
Production company
Accreditation
Demonstration
Acceptance
42. Accepted Practices Exchange. An initiative of the meetings - conventions & exhibitions industry managed by the Convention Industry Council (CIC). APEX develops and manages the implementation of accepted practices (voluntary standards) for the industr
Charter
Theater set-up
Air waybill
APEX
43. AKA Group Travel Agency. Company specializing in planning and handling group travel.
Video projection
Travel agency
Authorized signatory
Cafeteria service
44. 1) The opposite of real-time. 2) Audio and/or video programming available on a Web site after the completion of an event - providing this content so Web site visitors can listen or view at their discretion. 3) FAX system for sending out faxed materia
Good faith
Relational databases
Arrival pattern
On-demand
45. A Web site that serves as a year-round online marketplace for buyers and sellers within a given marketplace. Such sites are also referred to as business-to-business (B2B) marketplaces - business-to-consumer (B2C) marketplaces or consumer-to-consumer
Business exchange
Covers
Paid-out
Housing company
46. A supplier of a specific event service - such as photography - rental of furniture or audiovisual equipment - or floral decoration.
Good faith
Override
Specialty contractor
Liquidated damage clause
47. 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.
Stand
Buzz session
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
Tone
48. The newest development in audio systems that can take traditional distributed systems - which require delay speakers to be hung throughout the room - to a new level. The advantage is that you can cover a room from a single line of speakers over the r
Line array
Production company
Chat room
Russian restaurant service
49. 1) Process of moving equipment and/or people from one point to another. 2) Transportation between terminals and hotels. 3) To copy a picture or sound that is transmitted by one recorder to another - or to make a tape copy from film.
Audiovisual A/V
Transfer
Association of Destination Management Executives (ADME)
Break-even point
50. A larger-than-average bar code that uses the PDF417 standard (the same used for e-stamps). Stores up to 1 -800 characters in bar code on standard paper badge - which can then be used by exhibitors to get contact information from registrants.
2-D bar code
Production company
Deposit
Meet and greet