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CMP: Certified Meeting Professional
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1. An account (usually a number) to which expenses for a function or activity are charged.
Full American Plan
Objective
Cost center
Convention services manager (CSM)
2. System of assigning points to exhibiting companies to determine which firms will be allowed to select booth/stand space for the next event first. Also Called PRIORITY RATING SYSTEM.
Budget
Network
Priority point system
Direct billing
3. AP. A type of hotel rate that includes the price of the room and all meals. Also Called FULL AMERICAN PLAN (FAP).
Post-event report PER
Association of Destination Management Executives (ADME)
Event profile
American Plan (Full American Plan)
4. 1) The act of showing how to do something. 2) A group of individuals organized to picket or protest against a group using placards - literature - songs - shouts and - sometimes - marches or sit-ins.
Demonstration
Schoolroom set-up
Two-tiered set-up
Broadcast Music - Inc. (BMI)
5. An agreement between two or more parties that creates in each party a duty to do or not do something and a right to performance of the other's duty or a remedy for the breach of the other's duty.
Opt-out
Contract
Sampling
Marketing collateral
6. 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.
Exhibitor-appointed contractor (EAC)
2-D bar code
Application sharing
Convention services manager (CSM)
7. Permits the customs broker to complete the customs document upon the return of your shipment to the country of origin. A Power of Attorney allows one person to act as agent for another. A Limited Power of Attorney grants the right to act in only limi
Post event report
Digital marketing
Mandatory Continuing Legal Education (MCLE)
Limited power of attorney
8. 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.
Special event professional
Lavaliere microphone
General service contractor GSC
Zero-based budgeting
9. Structure of event program elements to achieve specific goals and objectives.
Leko
Commission
Program design
Stacked speaker system
10. Raised horizontal surface - stage - or flooring.
Automated external defibrillator (AED)
Focus group
Concession
Platform
11. A wired or wireless microphone that hooks around the neck or is clipped to clothing. Sometimes called a NECKLACE - LAPEL - or PENDANT MICROPHONE.
Lavaliere microphone
Arbitration
Association of Destination Management Executives (ADME)
Manifest
12. MICROPHONE that picks up sound from all directions.
Omnidirectional microphone
General service contractor GSC
Material handling
Lectern microphone
13. An electronic form of marketing communication that can be used as an element of an integrated marketing effort. Methods may include emailing digital brochures - delivering voice mail marketing - or sending video emails to the target audience.
Exclusive
Direct billing
Mitigation
Digital marketing
14. A type of audio system for meetings and concerts. The speakers sit on the floor and project from each side of the room. The sound may be louder in the front than the back.
Pre-event meeting
Common carrier
Stacked speaker system
Post event report
15. Complimentary tickets awarded by the official airline after the event according to the number of attendees who used the airline.
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
Desktop videoconferenceing (DVC)
Productivity ticket
Simultaneous translation
16. (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.
Meeting Information Network (MINT)
Category cable
APEX RFP
Balance sheet
17. Absence of obstacles preventing handicapped persons from moving freely to all public areas within a building.
Foreign exchange currency risk
Barrier-free
ducational programming committee
Mixer
18. An event that requires the use of a convention center or event complex - as well as multiple hotels in the host city.
Citywide event
Press conference
Pad-wrapped
Schoolroom set-up
19. Device used to compensate for undesired sound system characteristics or room acoustics.
Interface
Installation and dismantle (I&D)
Equalizer
Webconferencing
20. 1) Customs and regulations dealing with diplomatic formality - precedence - and etiquette. 2) A formal description of message formats and the rules two computers must follow to exchange messages.
Concession
Continuing Medical Education (CME)
Protocol
Continuing education
21. 1) Ability of a projection system to distinguish and reproduce fine detail. 2) Motion put forward for a joint decision; usually has the force of a legislative decision.
Resolution
Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
Certified Meeting Professional (CMP)
Publicity
22. 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
Meeting Information Network (MINT)
Peripheral block
Marketing
Strategic plan
23. 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
Attrition clause
Quick set
Gobo
Line array
24. A type of education where students work on their own at home or from an office - and communicate with faculty and other students via email - electronic forums - chat - webconferencing and other forms of online communication. Includes correspondence c
Butler service
Buzz session
Distance learning
Freight forwarder
25. Facility form to advise departments of changes in reservations or functions.
Videoconferencing
Change order
Certified Speaking Professional (CSP)
Lifelong learning
26. A type of room rate that includes breakfast and one other meal (usually dinner).
Modified American Plan MAP
Certified Speaking Professional (CSP)
Lectern microphone
Exhibitor-appointed contractor (EAC)
27. 1) Pallet. 2) Wooden platform used to support machinery or a collection of objects for easier handling. 3) Thick wood blocks attached to crates which allow forklift access for easier handling. 4) Wood runners protecting the exterior of a shipping cas
Marketing collateral
LCD projector
Post-event meeting
Skid
28. An advanced partial payment to secure product or service.
Publicity
Blog
Smart card
Deposit
29. FP. Projection of an image onto the front surface of a light reflecting screen from a projector placed within or behind the audience.
American Bar Association (ABA)
Union
Front projection
Air waybill
30. Risk that an organization takes when dealing with foreign currency due to exchange rates fluctuating over time.
Press release
Chat room
Resolution
Foreign exchange currency risk
31. Carrier that specializes in shipping uncrated exhibits - high-tech equipment and delicate materials that require special handling.
Conflict of interest statement
Russian restaurant service
Van line
Island booth
32. The standard seating supplied by most facilities. This kind of seating in wide rooms has the disadvantage of restricting the view of attendees sitting at the row ends. Best for presentations in which audience interaction is not required.
French cart service
Event profile
Seminar
Straight-row seating
33. The type of platform that multi-purpose technology solutions designed to handle many event planning and management tasks are built on. They range in price from a few hundred dollars for a basic single-user program to hundreds of thousands of dollars
Relational databases
Sampling
Stakeholder
Russian banquet service
34. Business-to-Business.
Travel agent
Conference center
B2B
Inducements
35. Equipment - materials - and teaching aids used in sound and visual presentations - such as television monitors - video - sound equipment - etc.
Speakers bureau
Audiovisual A/V
Freight forwarder
Deposit
36. Registration made via the Web.
Common carrier
Online registration
Lot labeling
Mag-stripe
37. All individuals who are invested in a project or event such as the sponsors - attendees - vendors - media and others.
Alternative dispute resolution (ADR)
Stakeholder
Full American Plan
Export declaration
38. Hiring an outside firm or individual to perform the task instead of using in-house staff; to subcontract a task or responsibility to a third party.
Backwall
Booth
Customs broker
Outsourcing
39. Portable MICROPHONE operating on its own power source. Often used to pass through an audience for questions or comments. Also Called WIRELESS MICROPHONE.
Income statement
Lead retrieval
Wireless microphone
Publicity
40. The day-to-day cost of doing business that is pre-committed - such as salaries - insurance - lease expenses - utilities - etc.
Podcast
Theater set-up
Fixed costs
Catering manager
41. 1) A statement of what one will give or take in return for something else (a price); proposal. 2) Proposal submitted by a convention & visitors bureau and/or hotel(s) to an event organizer that includes defined dates and room blocks.
Focus group
Social host
Real-time
Bid
42. A document - required by certain countries for tariff purposes - certifying as to the country of origin of specified goods.
Fiber-optic cable
Lifelong learning
Deposit
Certificate of origin
43. A food service operation in which customers carry their own trays and select food from a display counter or counters. It is similar to a buffet - but food is served by attendants.
Rounded hollow square
ISDN
Cafeteria service
Buzz session
44. List of names and addresses of the persons to whom publicity material or other information is to be sent.
Commerical invoice
General service contractor GSC
Mailing list
Buzz session
45. An informal meeting for the purpose of discussion; usually of an academic or research nature and in order to ascertain areas of mutual interest through exchange of ideas. Conducted as and when convenient - but with little regularity.
Shopping cart
Assisted listening devices (ALD)
Evaluation
Colloquium
46. 1) Schematic drawing of an exhibit hall including dimensions - design - shape - entrances - aisles - numbered exhibit booth/stands - lounges - concession areas - restrooms - electrical/plumbing accessibility - etc. 2) Scale plan of the floor area of
Provision
Yield management
Floor plan
Group specifications guide
47. Placing plated foods on banquet tables prior to seating guests.
Pre-set
Complimentary room
Lot labeling
Modified American Plan MAP
48. 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
Act of God
DLP projector
Stacked speaker system
Arbitration
49. Manual or kit - usually developed by the service contractor for an event - containing general event information - labor/service order forms - rules and regulations and other information pertinent to an exhibitor's participation in an exhibition.
Shoulder season
Application sharing
Exhibitor service manual
Convention and visitors bureau (CVB)
50. Sequential numbering as part of a total number of pieces indicated on each package - carton - or crate. For example - box number 2 of 12.
Seminar
Flying
Lot labeling
Convention center