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CMP: Certified Meeting Professional
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1. AP. A type of hotel rate that includes the price of the room and all meals. Also Called FULL AMERICAN PLAN (FAP).
Riser
Mitigation
Full American Plan
CODEC
2. Function room set-up that saves room turnover time - limits the number of event rooms required - and avoids additional charges for changing room set-ups.
Override
Quick set
Minimum labor call
B2B
3. Legal responsibility. An obligation to pay an amount in damages. In a non-legal context - something that is a negative factor.
Liability
Continuing Medical Education (CME)
Application sharing
Arbitration
4. Provides the event's basic specifications and captures all the information gathered. A detailed event specifications package should include things like the goals and objectives of the event - attendee profile - prefered and optional dates - the numbe
Certificate of insurance
Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
Complimentary
Event profile
5. 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
Digital video
Blog
Booking agent
Backbone
6. Risk that an organization takes when dealing with foreign currency due to exchange rates fluctuating over time.
Blog
Foreign exchange currency risk
Lead retrieval
Contract
7. Insurance that protects a event organizer against financial loss or expenses incurred when contractually specified perils necessitate canceling or relocating a event - or cause a reduction in attendance.
Function set-up order
Pro number
Cancellation or Interruption Insurance
Feedback
8. Written document requiring individuals to disclose any conflicts of interest that may be created by their involvement with an organization.
Conflict of interest statement
Certified Speaking Professional (CSP)
Debate
Full American Plan
9. Building an event budget on estimates of potential income and likely expenses because there is no financial history from prior events available to use.
Lot labeling
Continuing Education Unit (CEU)
Fresnel
Zero-based budgeting
10. 1) Critiquing and rating the overall success of an event. 2) Developing an event profile from accurate event statistics.
Rooming list
Teleconferencing
Evaluation
Strategic plan
11. The transfer of monies into and out of an enterprise.
Smart form
Continental breakfast
Downlink
Cash flow
12. LTL. Rates applicable when the quantity of freight is less than the volume of truckload minimum weight.
Shopping cart
Russian banquet service
Less than truckload
Exhibitor prospectus
13. 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
Citywide event
Specialty contractor
Post-event meeting
Exhibitor prospectus
14. 1) Common term for sealed beam spot or flood lamp with self-contained lens surfaced glass. 2) In golf - one less than bogey.
Covers
APEX RFP
PAR
Transfer
15. 1) Some Web-based content such as event Webcasts are made available to online customers on a pay-per-view basis - which means that customers have to pay to access this programming. 2) Video productions accessible to customers who pay for access to th
Liability
Set top box solutions (STBS)
Pay-per-view
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
16. Device used to compensate for undesired sound system characteristics or room acoustics.
Line array
Force majeure
Equalizer
Cancellation or Interruption Insurance
17. 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
Site inspection
Non-performance
Accreditation
LED Light Emitting Diode
18. Preferred term for the specific person responsible for all aspects of planning - promoting - and producing an exhibition. Also Called SHOW MANAGER - SHOW ORGANIZER.
Marketing plan
Exhibition manager
Exhibitor service manual
Peripheral block
19. AP. A type of hotel rate that includes the price of the room and all meals. Also Called FULL AMERICAN PLAN (FAP).
American Plan (Full American Plan)
Customs broker
Cut-off date
In conjunction with (ICW)
20. Notice as to how charges for an event should be handled and to whom invoices should be addressed.
Digital marketing
Rounded hollow square
Provision
Billing instructions
21. I&D. 1) The set-up and teardown of exhibits. 2) Firm that does I&D work.
Lifelong learning
Interview
Installation and dismantle (I&D)
Download
22. Series of tables set up in the shape of the block T with chairs set all around except at the head table.
Liquidated damage clause
Barrier-free
T-shape set-up
Installation and dismantle (I&D)
23. 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.
Mag-stripe
CODEC
PAR
Special event professional
24. 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.
Bid
Conference reminder
Broadcast Music - Inc. (BMI)
Arbitration
25. 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.
Exhibition service contractor
Smart form
Buzz session
Assisted listening devices (ALD)
26. A manner of behavior that touches all elements of communication and the way that we interact with customers and colleagues.
Overtime
Complimentary
Air waybill
Etiquette
27. 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
Limited power of attorney
Broadcast Music - Inc. (BMI)
Inducements
Variable costs
28. 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.
Application sharing
Modified American Plan MAP
Ground support
Consideration
29. 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
Intelligent lighting
Gobo
Post-event meeting
Van line
30. 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.
Union
Cash flow
Export declaration
Lead retrieval
31. An event that broadcasts the audio and/or video portion of a keynote presentation or other educational sessions over the Web in real-time or on-demand.
Dimensional weight
Webcast
Platform
One-stop shop
32. A detailed section of a contract pertaining to a specific issue.
Cancellation Clause
Clause
Barrier-free
Value-added tax (VAT)
33. A record of transactions during an event where the resulting balance is paid directly by the group. May include room - tax - incidentals - food and beverage - audiovisual equipment - decor - etc. Also Called MASTER BILL.
Request for proposal (RFP)
Accommodation
Integrated marketing
Master account
34. Proof of Registration - i.e. - a reservation number that will be accepted by the hotel holding the room.
Conference center
Confirmation number
Indirect costs
Income statement
35. 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
Seminar
Concession
Catering manager
36. A type of room rate that includes breakfast and one other meal (usually dinner).
Modified American Plan MAP
Continental breakfast
Commerical invoice
Special event professional
37. 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
Advance deposit
Lavaliere microphone
Line array
Material handling (formerly drayage)
38. Ability to transmit huge volumes of voice and video over a network or the internet - without jumpy images.
Cancellation Clause
Logistics
Post-event meeting
Broadband
39. A service provider of videoconferencing which allows multiple sites to connect simultaneously. A bridge connects three or more tele- or videoconference sites for simultaneous communication.
Yield management
American service
Certification
Multi-point bridge
40. Number of facility guest rooms actually used out of a room block.
Media relations
Pick-up
Pre-con
Fishbowl
41. Computer Assisted Drawing/Computer Assisted Manufacturing. Some facilities have CAD systems to provide room setup diagrams.
Style sheet
Webcast
Computer assisted drawing (CAD)
Barrier-free
42. 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
Group ware
General service contractor GSC
Citywide event
Act of God
43. One of the advantages of a web-based event planning software solution or ASP is that clients already have the necessary tools available: a computer and a web browser. This familiar interface is cross-platforming - meaning that PCs - MACs - and large
Platform
Shoulder season
Interface
Omnidirectional microphone
44. A collection of publicity items that includes: 1) pertinent data on the meeting - such as agenda - historical data - guest speakers - special events - etc. The property - such as photos - descriptions of public space areas - local entertainment - etc
Promotion
Minimum labor call
Association of Destination Management Executives (ADME)
Press kit
45. An audio signal generated by a microphone.
Mic level
Line array
Poster session
Broadband
46. Audio unit by which sound signals from all sources feed into one system; allows for dissimilar inputs (microphone and line) to be combined and controlled into one output.
Secure digital certificate
Income statement
Mixer
Chat room
47. An independent business which handles export shipments for compensation. At the request of the shipper - the forwarder makes the actual arrangements and provides the necessary services for expediting the shipment to its overseas destination. The forw
Hand carry
Freight forwarder
Music licensing
Press release
48. 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
Smart form
Application service provider (ASP)
Consular invoice
Two-tiered set-up
49. Weblogs or online journals. An application that may change the face of event marketing.
Stakeholder
Island booth
Program design
Blog
50. A type of exhibit construction in which the walls are of solid material - rather than fabric.
Stand
Hardwall
Front projection
Specialty contractor