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CMP: Certified Meeting Professional
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1. An electronic message center or online discussion group - usually serving a special-interest group. They allow you to review messages left by others - and leave your own message if you choose. Also known as bulletin board systems or electronic forum.
Buzz session
Business exchange
Message board
Lifelong learning
2. Lighting instruments that can be computer controlled to move light around the room - and project color and patterns on screens - scenery - walls or floor.
Intelligent lighting
Waiver of subrogation
Pre-set
Multi-management firm
3. 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.
Productivity ticket
Destination Marketing Association International
Liability
Resolution
4. 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.
Lectern
Zone fare
Audience polling
Schedule of services
5. Donated financial or material support - usually in exchange for recognition; Paid opportunity for entity or an exhibitor to increase its visibility at the event.
Shopping cart
Webconferencing
Guest program
Sponsorship
6. Lifts - trusses - pipe or other freestanding devices used to raise sound - lighting or other equipment above the heads of attendees and to support it from the floor.
Ground support
Chat room
Shoulder season
Tip
7. 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.
Hospitality suite
Trade show facilitation website
Post-con
Authorized signatory
8. 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
Marketing
Schoolroom set-up
Installation and dismantle (I&D)
Virtual conferencing
9. 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.
Bandwidth
Unopposed exhibit hours
Outsourcing
Meeting Information Network (MINT)
10. 1) An accounting method that enters income and expenses into the books at the time of contract versus when payment is received or expenses incurred (cash accounting). 2) A system in which revenue and expenses are accounted for as soon as they are com
Accrual accounting
Less than truckload
Advance registration
Authorized signatory
11. Exhibit hours that do not overlap other programming - which encourages attendees to visit the exhibition and increases the value for exhibitors.
Customs broker
Site inspection
Professional
Unopposed exhibit hours
12. A seating arrangement with a row of seats on low risers around a BOARDROOM SET-UP. A very space-intensive set-up.
Indirect costs
Direct billing
Business exchange
Two-tiered set-up
13. 1) Display of reports and papers - usually scientific - accompanied by authors or researchers. 2) A session dedicated to the discussion of the posters shown inside the meeting area. When this discussion is not held in a special session - it can take
Force majeure
Continuing Medical Education (CME)
Poster session
Intelligent lighting
14. Dispute resolution process in which the parties use a third party to assist them in reaching a compromise. The mediator may work with both sides together - or may act as "go between" in an attempt to move the sides toward agreement. The mediator may
Schoolroom set-up
DLP projector
Incremental budgeting
Mediation
15. 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
Convention center
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
Acceptance
Cancellation Clause
16. Web sites that give visitors a reason to return to the site and be exposed to new offers.
Hundredweight (CWT)
Chat room
Bid
Interface
17. FP. Projection of an image onto the front surface of a light reflecting screen from a projector placed within or behind the audience.
Ultraviolet lighting
Audit
Continuing education
Front projection
18. A commission over and above the normal base commission percentage.
Override
Concession
Reservation review date
Low season
19. 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.
Inducements
Cafeteria service
Shuttle service
Leko
20. Foods are cooked tableside. Servers put the food on platters and present themt ot he seated guests who serve themselves. Russian service requires sufficient space between tables for the servers to move about freely.
Downlink
Set-up
Russian restaurant service
In-house contractor
21. Net Profit divided by Net Worth. A financial ratio indicating the degree of profitability. To calculate - use event revenues minus program expenses divided by program expenses - multiplied by 100 to get the ROI %.
Projector
Pro number
Slide
Return on investment ROI
22. Any meeting where people at two or more distant locations are linked using video - audio and data for two-way communication via satellite communications or the Internet. Each party sees and hears the other through a TV screen or computer monitor and
Needs assessment
Virtual conferencing
Hundredweight (CWT)
On consumption
23. An exhibit with aisles on three sides.
Press kit
Broadband
Peninsula booth
Front projection
24. Structure of event program elements to achieve specific goals and objectives.
Schoolroom set-up
Program design
Exhibition manager
Cancellation clause
25. 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
Special event professional
Balance sheet
In-house contractor
B2B
26. Unpublished rates offered from the areas of the U.S. and Canada to specified event destinations; they do not require Saturday night stay over.
Convention center
Zone fare
Consideration
Line level
27. Absence of obstacles preventing handicapped persons from moving freely to all public areas within a building.
Audience reaction team
Barrier-free
Speakers bureau
Confirmation number
28. Final official listing of all passengers and/or cargo aboard a transportation vehicle or vessel.
Exhibitor Advisory Committee
Manifest
Document sharing
Island booth
29. A detailed section of a contract pertaining to a specific issue.
Whiteboarding
Clause
Convention and visitors bureau (CVB)
Focus group
30. 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.
Exhibition service contractor
Exclusive contractor
Accommodation
Cut-off date
31. 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.
Debate
Master account
Set top box solutions (STBS)
Convention services manager (CSM)
32. Company which designs and handles some or all elements of incentive travel programs.
Incentive travel company
Evaluation
Housing company
Protocol
33. Number of facility guest rooms actually used out of a room block.
Pick-up
LCD projector
Scoop
Hand carry
34. The transfer of monies into and out of an enterprise.
Cash flow
Target date
Omnidirectional microphone
Specialty contractor
35. In-person on-site review and evaluation of a venue or location for an event.
Conflict of interest statement
Advance deposit
Site inspection
Consular invoice
36. Business-to-Business.
Buffet
B2B
Arrival pattern
Alternative dispute resolution (ADR)
37. Shipment number designated by the common carrier to a single shipment - used in all cases where the shipment must be referred. Usually assigned at once.
Flate rate
Contract
Pro number
Conference reminder
38. An advanced partial payment to secure product or service.
Pre-registration
Covers
Cluster
Deposit
39. Food is plated in the kitchen and placed before the guest. Side dishes are used for bread and butter and salad. Food is served from the left - beverages from the right - and all items are removed from the right. This is generally the service used for
Certificate of insurance
American service
Hospitality suite
Tone
40. 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.
Kiosk
T-3 line
Banquet event order (BEO)
Mitigation
41. Magnetic Stripe. A lead retrieval system using a magnetic strip on either the back of a paper badge (similar to some airline tickets) or on plastic badges similar to credit cards.
Mag-stripe
Evaluation
Productivity ticket
Audit
42. When a company contracts space at a hotel or other adjacent venue to display their products and meet with exhibition attendees without paying show management for booth space or sponsorship fees.
Outboarding
Continuing Education Unit (CEU)
V-shape set-up
Computer assisted drawing (CAD)
43. Seating arrangement in which seats are in rows facing the stage area - no tables. See AUDITORIUM SET-UP.
Downlink
Theater set-up
Line level
Exhibitor service manual
44. A new development using computer chips that can be read from a distance (similar to a bar code without the need for line of sight). This type of technology holds promise to help attendees - event managers and exhibitors share information - log into c
Seminar
Radio frequency identification (RFID)
Value-added tax (VAT)
NCR form
45. In Conjunction With. An event or function that occurs because of another event.
NCR form
Group ware
In conjunction with (ICW)
Green event
46. DMC. A professional services company possessing extensive local knowledge - expertise and resources - specializing in the design and implementation of events - activities - tours - transportation and program logistics. Depending on the company and th
Destination management company (DMC)
Program design
Publicity
Press kit
47. This pattern of service involves the use of serving pieces (usually silver); heating and garnishing of food table-side by a captain; and the serving of food on a heated plate - which is then served to the guest by a server. Plated entrees are usually
Post event report
French cart service
Alternative dispute resolution (ADR)
Lectern
48. Assets minus liabilities.
Style
Teleconferencing
Net worth
Simultaneous translation
49. 1) Enclosed lights used to illuminate the top of film and stage sets. 2) Group of speakers mounted in auditoriums - arenas - and theaters.
On-demand
Uplink
Cluster
Secure digital certificate
50. The person hired to review the content of advertising or marketing materials for consistency - accuracy - and to elminate repititious information.
Accrual accounting
Full American Plan
Automated external defibrillator (AED)
Copy editor