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CMP: Certified Meeting Professional
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1. LTL. Rates applicable when the quantity of freight is less than the volume of truckload minimum weight.
Etiquette
Colloquium
Event specifications guide (ESG)
Less than truckload
2. A music licensing organization that represents individuals who hold the copyrights to music written in the United States. It grants licensing agreements for the performance of music.
Transfer
Post-con
Broadcast Music - Inc. (BMI)
Good faith
3. 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
Riser
Familiarization (fam) trip
CYC
Secure digital certificate
4. Private dispute resolution process - Often referred to as alternate dispute resolution - in which the parties agree to submit their dispute to an impartial third party for a decision. Depending on the type of arbitration - the arbitrator's decision m
Lead retrieval
VHS Video Home System
Arbitration
Group specifications guide
5. 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.
Balance sheet
Digital marketing
Stand
Citywide event
6. A detailed list of the individual line items that make up the revenue and expense categories in a budget. A numbering system used to identify every line item in a budget - so income and expenses are posted to the correct accounts.
Chart of accounts
Floor plan
Accrual accounting
One-stop shop
7. An alternative plan that may replace the original plan when circumstances change.
Certificate of insurance
Contingency plan
American Plan (Full American Plan)
Cost center
8. A true and honest effort to uphold the law. (as in Good Faith Effort)
Good faith
Professional
Dram shop laws
Set-up
9. 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.
Protocol
Mailing list
lanning committee
Rebates
10. A statement of revenues and expenses. Also known as a profit & loss statement.
Income statement
Group specifications guide
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
Mixer
11. 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."
Rounded hollow square
DLP projector
Audit
Force majeure
12. 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
Protocol
In-house contractor
Special event professional
American service
13. 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
Travel agent
APEX RFP
APEX
Copy editor
14. 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
Network
Shoulder season
Lot labeling
15. Raising and supporting sound - lighting or other equipment or décor from the ceiling.
Flying
Official carrier
Line level
Confirmation number
16. Educational and/or social events planned for spouses and guests of event participants.
Resolution
LCD projector
Conference reminder
Guest program
17. Raised platform usually above the floor of a hall or large room.
Change order
Less than truckload
Mediation
Dais
18. Device used to compensate for undesired sound system characteristics or room acoustics.
Clause
Equalizer
Convention center
On-demand
19. Raised horizontal surface - stage - or flooring.
DLP projector
T-shape set-up
Platform
Housing company
20. 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
Application service provider (ASP)
Fiber-optic cable
Cut-off date
APEX
21. Transportation for participants; usually by coach or van - provided on a continuous basis for a certain time period.
Peripheral block
Shuttle service
Hospitality suite
Audit
22. 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.
High season
Link
Publicity
Peninsula booth
23. When online activities take place at a designated time - they are referred to as real-time events. A Webcast of a keynote presenter that can be watched live over the Internet is an example of a real-time event.
Front projection
Real-time
Gratuity
Non-performance
24. Period when the demand for a supplier's product or service is neither high nor low.
Automated external defibrillator (AED)
Shoulder season
Pre-event meeting
Omnidirectional microphone
25. Solicitation of opinions regarding services; questionnaire.
Pick-up
Survey
Van line
ISDN
26. 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
CYC
Request for proposal (RFP)
Document sharing
Offer
27. A wired or wireless microphone that hooks around the neck or is clipped to clothing. Sometimes called a NECKLACE - LAPEL - or PENDANT MICROPHONE.
Wireless microphone
Streaming
Lavaliere microphone
Certified Special Event Professional (CSEP)
28. Light-weight aluminum tubing and drapery used to separate exhibit booths/stands - staging areas - and other similar locations.
Deposit
Credit card badge
Pipe & drape
Alternative dispute resolution (ADR)
29. AKA Pre Conference.Any event which is arranged for the period immediately preceeding the conference proper.
Broadband
Pre-con
Arbitration
Air waybill
30. A marketing plan should answer the question - What is the benefit to attending the event?
Value proposition
Marketing plan
Inducements
Post-event meeting
31. A popular digital format for meeetings with a good quality image - an extended recording time up to 184 minutes - with a tape stock that is less expensive than BetaSP.
Contract
Income statement
Point-to-multipoint videoconference
DVCam
32. Structured educational and training experiences for personal or professional development.
Trade-out
Webconferencing
Exhibit house
Continuing education
33. A contract clause in which one party agrees to pay damages or claims that the other party may be required to pay to another. For example - if a hotel is sued by an attendee that is injured at an event due to the fault of the group - an indemnificatio
Cut-off date
Van line
Indemnification clause
Focus group
34. 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
Open bar (host bar)
Force majeure
Material handling
35. A document provided by an insurance company as proof that a policy has been issued and coverage is in effect.
Complimentary
Marketing plan
2-D bar code
Certificate of insurance
36. A Web-based form that can be designed to guide the user through the process of completing the form and can alert the user to errors.
Act of God
Smart form
Exhibition manager
Liquidated damage clause
37. To neglect to carry out an agreement.
Non-performance
Straight time
Continuing Legal Education (CLE)
T-shape set-up
38. 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
Mailing list
Barrier-free
Open bar (host bar)
39. CSM. Professional at a hotel - convention center or convention bureau who is responsible for event operations management on all levels.
Butler service
Complimentary room
Convention services manager (CSM)
Buffet
40. Absence of obstacles preventing handicapped persons from moving freely to all public areas within a building.
Barrier-free
Liquidated damage clause
Limited power of attorney
Kiosk
41. Association of Destination Management Executives. A member of the Convention Industry Council.
Russian banquet service
2-D bar code
Exhibit house
Association of Destination Management Executives (ADME)
42. 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
E-conferencing
Fixed costs
Distance learning
Projector
43. The organization who provides accrediation for Continuing Medical Education (CME).
Service charge
Pay-per-view
Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME)
Professional
44. International Association for Continuing Education and Training.
Leko
Barrier-free
DSL
Internatinoal Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET)
45. Two or more computers or peripherals that are linked together for the purpose of sharing data.
Contingency plan
Mandatory Continuing Legal Education (MCLE)
APEX Post Event Report (PER)
Network
46. 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
Distance learning
Cost center
Linear booth
47. Computer application that enables voting and then collects and displays the results - simplifying decision-making among event participants.
Contingency plan
Virtual conferencing
Blog
Audience polling
48. A prepared statement released to the news media. Can be "For immediate release -" or at a specified time or date; an article intended for use by the media about a company - product - service - individual - or show. Also Called NEWS RELEASE.
Streaming
Press release
Group ware
Van line
49. Web browser-based videoconferencing.
Exhibitor-appointed contractor (EAC)
Trade show facilitation website
Webconferencing
lanning committee
50. 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.
Mediation
Exhibitor-appointed contractor (EAC)
Hospitality suite
Freight forwarder