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CMP: Certified Meeting Professional

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1. In-house facility form authorizing cash withdrawal to be charged to master account or individual guest.






2. 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.






3. A document - required by some countries - describing a shipment of goods and showing information such as the consignor - consignee - and value of the shipment. Certified by a consular official of the foreign country - it is used by that country's cus






4. Sports shirt (possibly with jacket) for men; resort wear for women.






5. This beverage service includes both cash-bar and open-bar concepts. Guests are issued a certain number of tickets for free drinks and are then required to purchase additional drinks if desired.






6. Primary uses of satellite videoconferencing today are major announcements - product launches - and other presentations for which timeliness and a top-quality broadcaset is desired. they are typically sent to a large - geographically remote audience -






7. A facility that provides a dedicated environment for events - especially small events. May be certified by the International Association of Conference Centers.






8. 1) Schematic drawing of an exhibit hall including dimensions - design - shape - entrances - aisles - numbered exhibit booth/stands - lounges - concession areas - restrooms - electrical/plumbing accessibility - etc. 2) Scale plan of the floor area of






9. 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.






10. 1) Free-standing pavilion or light structure - often inside a facility - where printed or electronic information is available. 2) A small enclosure for ticket sales - information - etc.






11. Any group of rooms that is classified or separated differently than the general attendee block within the Event-Contracted Block (ECB).






12. 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.






13. Raised platform.






14. 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






15. Building an event budet by analyzing both the projected and actual figures from the previous year's budget.






16. Detailed section of a contract.






17. A statement of revenues and expenses. Also known as a profit & loss statement.






18. Legal responsibility. An obligation to pay an amount in damages. In a non-legal context - something that is a negative factor.






19. Services performed by GENERAL SERVICE CONTRACTOR that includes delivery of exhibit materials from the dock to assigned space - removing empty crates - returning crates at the end of the event for re-crating - and delivering materials back to the dock






20. 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.






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.






22. 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.






23. A company that offers complete turnkey organization support for an event - including administrative and event management services.






24. 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.






25. Accounts receivable made available to individuals or firms with established credit.






26. 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.






27. 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






28. 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.






29. AKA Brainstorming. Group decision-making software and services use technology on-site to maximize the group decision and brainstorming process. Often the set-up involves a network of computers that event participants use to respond to questions - pll






30. Period when the demand for a supplier's product or service is lowest. Prices general decrease in low season.






31. A discussion which takes place within a meeting - a public or private sitting or in one of the various types of assembly or meeting.






32. Structured educational and training experiences for personal or professional development.






33. Certified Special Event Professional; an earned designation from the International Special Events Society (ISES).






34. The software that makes Webcasting work. These "stream" audio and video from a central source - or media server - to recipients on their personal computers.






35. Required for shipments valued at more than $2500; used by the U.S. government to monitor the dollar volume of export shipments.






36. An event that incoporates environmental considerations throughout all states of the planning process in order to minimize the negative impact on the environment.






37. European term for booth or exhibit.






38. A single source provider of goods or services.






39. 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






40. 1) Merchandise or refreshments sold on site - to individuals - in conjunction with an event. 2) Contractual agreement where one party provides something of value to the other party in exchange for something else - pending certain conditions.






41. 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.






42. 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






43. 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.






44. The tone of a document refers to the feeling or impression a document conveys. Formal writing style tends to convey an objective tone that is deliberate and factual. The toneo f an informal document typically is relaxed - informative - helpful - casu






45. Categorization of people - organizations or businesses by professional discipline or primary areas of interest for the purposes of sales analysis or assignment.






46. The rooms that are contracted for by an event organizer with a hotel(s) or housing facility(s) for a particular event.






47. A type of barter. The exchange of goods and services instead of using money.






48. 1) The jobs that may be performed by a specific labor union. 2) The locality where a contractual dispute is decided. 3) In law - the ability of a court to hear and decide a matter brought before it.






49. Marketing activities with a common focus on the marketplace or a customer segment. The execution of each individual piece of the integrated marketing plan is consistent with - and supportive of - each of the other pieces of the plan.






50. Services performed by GENERAL SERVICE CONTRACTOR that includes delivery of exhibit materials from the dock to assigned space - removing empty crates - returning crates at the end of the event for re-crating - and delivering materials back to the dock