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CMP: Certified Meeting Professional
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1. A type of barter. The exchange of goods and services instead of using money.
Dram shop laws
Trade-out
Contract
Decorator
2. 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.
Good faith
Protocol
Post-event report PER
Broadcast Music - Inc. (BMI)
3. Digital subscriber line. Brings high bandwidth via copper phone lines.
Multi-management firm
DSL
Backwall
Schoolroom set-up
4. 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
Contract
Lavaliere microphone
Act of God
Customs broker
5. Required for shipments valued at more than $2500; used by the U.S. government to monitor the dollar volume of export shipments.
Concession
Rebates
Export declaration
Link
6. A writtten plan that's purpose is to define the market for an event - outline a strategy for attracting and keeping participants - and prepare to adapt to changes in the market. This working document guides decisions about how - when - and where to e
Marketing plan
Unopposed exhibit hours
Priority point system
Suitcasing
7. An event (e.g. war - labor strike - extreme weather - or other disruptive circumstances) or effect that cannot be reasonably anticipated or controlled: a "fortuitous event."
Foreign exchange currency risk
Videoconferencing
Force majeure
Incremental budgeting
8. Time worked by an employee outside of - or in addition to - regular working time or beyond the standard forty-hour workweek.
Overtime
Walk
Good faith
Exclusive
9. An individual or company which provides customs clearing services to shippers of goods to and from another country. Licensing and requirements vary from country to country. In the United States - a customs broker must be licensed by the Treasury Depa
Material handling (formerly drayage)
Priority point system
Customs broker
Foreign exchange currency risk
10. Accredited designation offered by the National Speakers Association. This designation is earned for extensive - documented speaking experience and client satisfaction.
Certified Speaking Professional (CSP)
Rider
Waiver of subrogation
Acceptance
11. One or more standard units of exhibit space. In the US - a standard unit is generally known to be a 10' x 10' space (one standard booth/stand unit - equaling 100 nsf). However - if an exhibitor purchases multiple units side-by-side or back-to-back -
Continuing Legal Education (CLE)
Change order
Booth
Travel agency
12. An event that incoporates environmental considerations throughout all states of the planning process in order to minimize the negative impact on the environment.
Green event
Outsourcing
Destination Marketing Association International
Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME)
13. 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
Outsourcing
Non-performance
Skid
Shopping cart
14. A list - whether printed or electronic - by which an event organizer and/or their designates (e.g. a housing bureau) delivers multiple reservations to a hotel or other housing facility. Often the information contained in a rooming list is originally
Platform
Slide
Alternative dispute resolution (ADR)
Rooming list
15. The process whereby exhibitors receive a potential customer's contact information in a standardized manner. A system for capturing and following-up on leads generated at an exhibition.
Mailing list
Pre-event meeting
Lead retrieval
Exclusive
16. An encrypted file that authenticates the source of financial data - usually for an online credit card transaction.
Exhibitor Advisory Committee
Secure digital certificate
Objective
Streaming
17. 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.
Cash bar
Priority point system
Catering manager
Colloquium
18. A labor organization - typically made up of workers from the same trade formed for the purpose of advancing its members' interests such as dealing collectively with their employer on issues of wages - hours - working conditions and other matters pert
Union
Cash flow
Value proposition
Opt-out
19. A solid-state diode rectifier whose atomic properties cause it to emit light when electric current is passed through it. Current LED technology allows the emission of light from infrared through green frequencies - and visible light LEDs are availabl
LED Light Emitting Diode
LCD projector
Charter
Publicity
20. 1) A mandatory and automatic amount added to standard food and beverage charges - usually used to defray the cost of labor - such as housemen - servers - technicians - etc. and which the facility receives a portion of the charge. In return - the gues
Fishbowl
Equalizer
Stacked speaker system
Service charge
21. In-person on-site review and evaluation of a venue or location for an event.
Site inspection
T-shape set-up
Travel agent
Post-event meeting
22. A lead retrieval method using embossed plastic cards similar to credit cards.
Straight-row seating
Overtime
Music licensing
Credit card badge
23. 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
Front projection
Offer
Concession
Export declaration
24. 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
2-D bar code
Common carrier
Professional
25. A meeting of a number of experts in a particular field - at which papers are presented and discussed by specialists on particular subjects with a view to making recommendations concerning the problems under discussion.
Seminar
Mandatory Continuing Legal Education (MCLE)
Trade-out
Symposium
26. 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.
Housing company
2-D bar code
Risk management
Liability
27. Familiarization Trip. Offered to potential buyers of a venue - a program designed to acquaint participants with specific destinations or services and to stimulate the booking of an event. Often offered in groups - but sometimes on an individual basis
Videoconferencing
Cash flow
Deposit
Familiarization (fam) trip
28. 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.
Contract
Pre-event meeting
High season
Zone fare
29. Notice as to how charges for an event should be handled and to whom invoices should be addressed.
Trade show facilitation website
Post-event meeting
Billing instructions
Computer data projection
30. Marketing tools or programs used to influence buying patterns and build customer loyalty.
Inducements
Broadband
ISDN
Mandatory Continuing Legal Education (MCLE)
31. MICROPHONE attached to a lectern. See LECTERN.
Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
Lectern microphone
Conference reminder
Less than truckload
32. Transmitting data at speeds of up to 44.184 Mbps - is faster than a T-1 line - allowing performance of more tasks simultaneously at a greater speed. See T-1 LINE.
T-3 line
Automated external defibrillator (AED)
Leko
Real-time
33. Certification of measurements of meeting space through the Function Space Verification Program offered by the Professional Convention Management Association or through graphics layout software companies - e.g. MeetingMatrix.
ISDN
Convention services manager (CSM)
Complimentary room
PCMA Space Verification Program
34. Designated date when the facility will release a block of sleeping rooms to the general public. The date is typically three to four weeks before the event.
Straight-row seating
Cut-off date
LCD projector
Variable costs
35. 1) Registering in advance to attend an event. See ADVANCE REGISTRATION. 2) At a facility - pre-assigned sleeping rooms available for occupancy.
Export declaration
Pipe & drape
Event specifications guide (ESG)
Pre-registration
36. A facility that provides a dedicated environment for events - especially small events. May be certified by the International Association of Conference Centers.
Webcast
Conference center
Streaming
Continuing education
37. 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
Indemnification clause
Exclusive
Linear booth
38. Private room bar set up where guests do not pay for drinks.
Open bar (host bar)
Rider
U-shape set-up
Front projection
39. AKA Pre-con meeting. A meeting at the primary facility at which an event will take place just prior to the event beginning. Attendees generally include the primary event organizer - representatives of the event organizer/host organization - departmen
Stand
Pick-up
Pre-event meeting
Mailing list
40. Legal responsibility. An obligation to pay an amount in damages. In a non-legal context - something that is a negative factor.
Convention and visitors bureau (CVB)
Liability
Distance learning
Riser
41. Individuals who will participate in the pre-event meetings. Generally includes the planner - key members of planner's staff - CSM - Catering Managers - A/V representatives - room set-up representatives - etc.
lanning committee
Colloquium
Common carrier
Ground support
42. Representatives of an event's exhibiting companies who act as advisers to show management on rules and procedures - and also update show management on industry trends and issues.
NCR form
Less than truckload
Backbone
Exhibitor Advisory Committee
43. Labor performed and paid at standard rate for work during normal business hours as established by unions.
Protocol
National Speakers Association (NSA)
Target date
Straight time
44. Pre-program information distributed to tour guides - field representatives - venues or vendors - regarding the details of their program assignment for a given event or program.
Schedule of services
Line level
Direct billing
LED Light Emitting Diode
45. Solicitation of opinions regarding services; questionnaire.
Survey
Pallet
Focus group
Provision
46. Categorization of people - organizations or businesses by professional discipline or primary areas of interest for the purposes of sales analysis or assignment.
Market segments
Arbitration
Packing list
Videoconferencing
47. A discussion which takes place within a meeting - a public or private sitting or in one of the various types of assembly or meeting.
Interface
Meeting Information Network (MINT)
Debate
V-shape set-up
48. Continuning education requirements for legal professionals are adminstered by the American Bar Association (ABA).
Export license
Continuing Legal Education (CLE)
Outsourcing
Charter
49. 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.
Colloquium
Tone
Secure digital certificate
Contract
50. Association of Destination Management Executives. A member of the Convention Industry Council.
Cancellation Clause
Association of Destination Management Executives (ADME)
Slide
Stakeholder