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CMP: Certified Meeting Professional

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1. Labor performed and paid at standard rate for work during normal business hours as established by unions.






2. Facility form to advise departments of changes in reservations or functions.






3. A Web site that serves as a year-round online marketplace for buyers and sellers within a given marketplace. Such sites are also referred to as business-to-business (B2B) marketplaces - business-to-consumer (B2C) marketplaces or consumer-to-consumer






4. 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.






5. In which rows of tables with chairs face the front of a room and each person has a space for writing.






6. 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.






7. AP. A type of hotel rate that includes the price of the room and all meals. Also Called FULL AMERICAN PLAN (FAP).






8. See BLANKET WRAP. Non-crated freight shipped via van line covered with protective blankets or padding.






9. 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.






10. Digital subscriber line. Brings high bandwidth via copper phone lines.






11. Sequential numbering as part of a total number of pieces indicated on each package - carton - or crate. For example - box number 2 of 12.






12. 1) Certified Meeting Professional. 2) Complete Meeting Package at conference centers; includes lodging - all food and beverage - support services - including audio visual equipment - room rental - etc.






13. Efforts of a dissident group to obstruct the conduct of an event.






14. An individual or company which provides customs clearing services to shippers of goods to and from another country. Licensing and requirements vary from country to country. In the United States - a customs broker must be licensed by the Treasury Depa






15. Placing plated foods on banquet tables prior to seating guests.






16. 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.






17. Official authorization or approval; to provide with credentials; to send (an envoy) with letters of authorization; to recognize or vouch for as conforming with a standard; to recognize a college as maintaining academic standards; to consider or recog






18. Digital light processor data/video projectors were developed with an entirely new processor using microscopic mirrors to recreate video images and display them in a number of settings. These projectors picked up where LCD left off by reproducing vide






19. 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.






20. 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






21. A company that presents special effects and theatrical acts. This type of company may contract to put on an entire event or only parts of one. They sometimes hire speakers as part of their contract.






22. A release of rights to substitute one party for another party. The release of an insurance company right to succeed to the insured's rights to sue for damages against the tortfeasor - after the insurance company pays an insured's claim of loss due to






23. Complimentary tickets awarded by the official airline after the event according to the number of attendees who used the airline.






24. 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.






25. 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






26. Lighting instruments that can be computer controlled to move light around the room - and project color and patterns on screens - scenery - walls or floor.






27. 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.






28. 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






29. Anticipated dates and times of arrival of group members.






30. The person hired to review the content of advertising or marketing materials for consistency - accuracy - and to elminate repititious information.






31. The inducement to a contract. The cause - motive - price - or impelling influence which induces a contracting party to enter a contract.






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






33. Expenses that vary based upon various factors - such as the number of attendees .






34. 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.






35. 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.






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






37. Proof of Registration - i.e. - a reservation number that will be accepted by the hotel holding the room.






38. The amount of information that can be transmitted in an information channel such as a telephone line - ISDN - or Ethernet. Higher bandwidth means that images and sound will load more quickly for use in videoconferences or on the Internet.






39. Series of tables set up in the shape of the block T with chairs set all around except at the head table.






40. A requirement for entering into a binding contract. If a contract proposal (offer) is made - it is accepted if the offeree signs the offer as submitted. If the offeree makes any changes to the offer before signing - it is a counter offer - not accept






41. 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






42. 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.






43. A seating arrangement with a row of seats on low risers around a BOARDROOM SET-UP. A very space-intensive set-up.






44. The station which receives data transmissions from a communications satellite.






45. 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






46. A nonprofit organization representing specific destinations formerly known as the International Association of Convention & Visitors Bureaus. Members have expert knowledge of their city and its surrounding areas; typically they represent local hotels






47. Small group sessions - panels - workshops or presentations - offered concurrently within the event - formed to focus on specific subjects. The event is apart from the general session - but within the event format - formed to focus on specific subject






48. A tax that is added to a product at each step of the manufacturing and marketing process reflecting value which has been added to the product by processing.






49. International Association for Continuing Education and Training.






50. 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.