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CMP: Certified Meeting Professional
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1. A term used in food and beverage that refers to the purchasing option based on the amount utilized by the group. The organization pays for the food and beverage based on the actual food and beverage served.
Concession
On consumption
Credit card badge
Force majeure
2. Using hypertext - a link is a selectable connection from one word - picture or information object to another. From a Web site - a link points to content.
Audit
Link
Digital marketing
Attrition clause
3. Type of adjustable spotlight used to light lecterns - signs and areas that need a tightly focused pool of light.
Leko
Unopposed exhibit hours
Housing company
Simultaneous translation
4. 1) A food service vendor - often used to describe a vendor who specializes in banquets and theme parties. 2) An exclusive food & beverage contractor within a facility.
Export declaration
Audience polling
Caterer
Exhibitor service manual
5. 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.
DVCam
Shoulder season
Protocol
Manifest
6. In which rows of tables with chairs face the front of a room and each person has a space for writing.
Schoolroom set-up
In-house contractor
Familiarization (fam) trip
Cancellation or Interruption Insurance
7. Light-weight aluminum tubing and drapery used to separate exhibit booths/stands - staging areas - and other similar locations.
Pipe & drape
Barrier-free
Message board
Consular invoice
8. 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
Familiarization (fam) trip
Convention and visitors bureau (CVB)
Arrival pattern
Certificate of insurance
9. An audio signal generated by a microphone.
NCR form
Line level
Mic level
Installation and dismantle (I&D)
10. 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
Multi-point bridge
Fiber-optic cable
Marketing plan
History
11. Unpublished rates offered from the areas of the U.S. and Canada to specified event destinations; they do not require Saturday night stay over.
Carnet
Zone fare
Citywide event
Lectern microphone
12. FP. Projection of an image onto the front surface of a light reflecting screen from a projector placed within or behind the audience.
Cash flow
Front projection
Transfer
ite inspection
13. Device used to compensate for undesired sound system characteristics or room acoustics.
Mailing list
Override
Equalizer
Broadcast Music - Inc. (BMI)
14. 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.
B2B
Priority point system
Fiber-optic cable
Shoulder season
15. Anticipated dates and times of arrival of group members.
Deposit
Arrival pattern
Message board
Decorator
16. Direct mail promotional materials sent to current and prospective exhibitors to encourage participation and promote the benefits of exhibiting in a specific show. Contains information about technical points - cost of exhibition space - floor plan of
Radio frequency identification (RFID)
Exhibitor prospectus
Hundredweight (CWT)
Complimentary room
17. Requirement of many professional groups by which members must certify participation in formal educational programs designed to maintain their level of ability beyond their original certification date. CEUs are non-academic credit. One CEU is awarded
Continuing Education Unit (CEU)
Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
Housing company
Resolution
18. An event that draws a national and international audience. Typically 15% or more of attendees reside outside of the host country.
Mitigation
Intelligent lighting
International event
Schoolroom set-up
19. An encrypted file that authenticates the source of financial data - usually for an online credit card transaction.
Billing instructions
Secure digital certificate
Concession
Arbitration
20. Computer program that uses variable pricing models to maximize the return on a fixed (perishable) inventory - such as hotel rooms - based on supply-and-demand theory.
Podcast
Yield management
Two-tiered set-up
Full American Plan
21. A payment to a sales representative for meeting or exceeding a sales revenue goal. Or a payment made to an individual or organization for bringing business to another individual or organization.
Liquidated damage clause
Commission
Fresnel
Sub-block
22. 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.
Press release
CODEC
Certificate of insurance
Protocol
23. A statement of revenues and expenses. Also known as a profit & loss statement.
Target date
Pipe & drape
Network
Income statement
24. 1) Any seat - berth - room - or service provided and/or sold to a guest - attendee or passenger. 2) Under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) - a step taken to allow a person with a disability to participate in an event or employment.
Demonstration
Continuing Legal Education (CLE)
Accommodation
Site inspection
25. Service for meeting and greeting a person upon arrival in a city - usually at the airport - pier or rail station and assisting him or her with entrance formalities - collecting baggage and obtaining transportation.
Meet and greet
Hospitality suite
Walk
PCMA Space Verification Program
26. Digital subscriber line. Brings high bandwidth via copper phone lines.
DSL
Platform
Projector
Group specifications guide
27. Date beyond which a facility is free to rent the unused sleeping rooms or function space to other groups.
Slide
Foreign exchange currency risk
Release date
Skid
28. A list showing the number and kinds of items being shipped - as well as other information needed for transportation purposes.
T-shape set-up
Customs broker
Packing list
Download
29. Final official listing of all passengers and/or cargo aboard a transportation vehicle or vessel.
Streaming
Manifest
Risk management
Rider
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.
Mailing list
Cut-off date
Non-performance
Market segments
31. Provision in a contract which outlines damages to be paid to the non-canceling party if cancellation occurs - due the canceling party's breach of the contract.
Cancellation Clause
Resolution
Equalizer
Straight-row seating
32. 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.
Stacked speaker system
Provision
Bid
Uplink
33. 1) Broadly - one who acts or has the power to act: more usually - one that acts as the representative of another. Most frequently in travel - a specific kind of agent such as a retail travel agent. 2) Person that obtains engagements for entertainers
Continuing Medical Education (CME)
Combination bar
Booking agent
CYC
34. In-house facility form authorizing cash withdrawal to be charged to master account or individual guest.
Paid-out
Business exchange
Caterer
Ultraviolet lighting
35. 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
Computer data projection
Provision
Survey
Marketing
36. 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
Hospitality suite
Point-to-multipoint videoconference
Sales lead
In-house contractor
37. The software that makes Webcasting work. These "stream" audio and video from a central source - or media server - to recipients on their personal computers.
Streaming
Radio frequency identification (RFID)
Unopposed exhibit hours
Fishbowl
38. A seating arrangement with a row of seats on low risers around a BOARDROOM SET-UP. A very space-intensive set-up.
Two-tiered set-up
Online registration
Suitcasing
Symposium
39. MICROPHONE that picks up sound from all directions.
Omnidirectional microphone
Shuttle service
Master account
Minimum labor call
40. Total number of sleeping rooms that are utilized and attributable to one event.
Room block
Booking agent
ite inspection
Exhibitor prospectus
41. 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.
Transfer
Application service provider (ASP)
Rooming list
Modified American Plan MAP
42. Items that an exhibitor is allowed to carry unaided into a event facility without being charged.
Suitcasing
Point-to-multipoint videoconference
Accreditation
Hand carry
43. A meeting at the primary facility at which an event occurred just after it has ended. Attendees generally include the primary event organizer - representatives of the event organizer/host organization - department heads at the facility - other facili
PCMA Space Verification Program
Function set-up order
Post-event meeting
Authorized signatory
44. Land-based system for videoconferencing designed to manage communication between one group of people - usually in a conference room setting - with another group or groups in similar settings elsewhere.
Mandatory Continuing Legal Education (MCLE)
Room-based videoconferencing
Online registration
Fishbowl
45. Devices that help people who are hard of hearing connect to the speaker system and use their hearing aids to hear the speaker more clearly.
Productivity ticket
Pro number
Cut-off date
Assisted listening devices (ALD)
46. 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
Flate rate
Business exchange
Uplink
47. Integrated services digital network. A single ISDN line carries data at 128 Kbps. Although video conferences are possible at slower speeds - ISDN is considered to be the minimum for acceptable-quality video transmission.
ISDN
Advance deposit
V-shape set-up
Post-con
48. 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
Concession
Association of Destination Management Executives (ADME)
General liability insurance
Arbitration
49. Structure of event program elements to achieve specific goals and objectives.
Peninsula booth
Continuing Medical Education (CME)
Schedule of services
Program design
50. 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
General liability insurance
Destination management company (DMC)
Style
Downlink