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CMP: Certified Meeting Professional
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1. An account (usually a number) to which expenses for a function or activity are charged.
Cost center
Flying
Pre-registration
Application service provider (ASP)
2. 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.
Assisted listening devices (ALD)
LED Light Emitting Diode
Equalizer
Accreditation
3. Computer application that enables voting and then collects and displays the results - simplifying decision-making among event participants.
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
ISDN
Audience polling
Interface
4. 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
Carnet
Contract
Tone
Group ware
5. Certified Special Event Professional; an earned designation from the International Special Events Society (ISES).
Clause
Certified Special Event Professional (CSEP)
Teleconferencing
Association of Destination Management Executives (ADME)
6. 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.
Distributed speaker system
Professional congress organizer (PCO)
Scoop
Cut-off date
7. 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.
Minimum labor call
Relational databases
Dais
Smart form
8. The projection of a computer signal from a personal computer - laptop or other computer device onto a screen from a LCD or equivalent projector for viewing by audience.
Computer data projection
Lectern
Pay-per-view
Skid
9. A discussion which takes place within a meeting - a public or private sitting or in one of the various types of assembly or meeting.
Good faith
Air waybill
Debate
Contract
10. An ongoing process in which an individual actively seeks to understand and contribute to change.
PAR
Lifelong learning
Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME)
B2B
11. A permanently installed series of cable comprised of copper wire cable and/or fiber optic cable - utilized as the main thoroughfare in a building to transmit voice and data signals in or out of the facility.
Priority point system
Advance registration
Backbone
Integrated marketing
12. Series of tables set up in the shape of the letter U with chairs set all around on one or both sides.
Business exchange
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
Acceptance
U-shape set-up
13. 1) Publicizing an event. See PUBLICITY. 2) An advancement in rank or position.
Complimentary
Event-contracted block (ECB)
Promotion
Set-up
14. 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.
Association of Destination Management Executives (ADME)
lanning committee
Workshop
Combination bar
15. Period when the demand for a supplier's product or service is lowest. Prices general decrease in low season.
Citywide event
Special event professional
Value proposition
Low season
16. Date beyond which a facility is free to rent the unused sleeping rooms or function space to other groups.
Release date
T-3 line
Conference center
Professional congress organizer (PCO)
17. 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.
Covers
Room-based videoconferencing
Multi-point bridge
Hundredweight (CWT)
18. Linear exhibits are generally 10' deep. They are offered in 10' or 15' widths and can be combined to create an exhibit of almost any length.
Symposium
Linear booth
Exhibitor-appointed contractor (EAC)
Lecture
19. A list of special spellings - terms and style points to be used consistently in publications related to an event.
DSL
Breakout session
Decorator
Style sheet
20. 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
Income statement
Audience reaction team
Rider
Arbitration
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.
Accommodation
Commission
Complimentary room
Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
22. Large theatrical floodlight usually used for work lights or occasionally in place of strip lights to light a cyclorama or sky drop.
Confrontation
Catering manager
Scoop
Group specifications guide
23. Used to sell products through a Web site. An online shopping cart application allows customers to select and then purchase books - tapes and other items.
Suitcasing
Computer assisted drawing (CAD)
Shopping cart
Professional
24. An event that draws a national and international audience. Typically 15% or more of attendees reside outside of the host country.
International event
Lifelong learning
Consideration
Dimensional weight
25. Notice as to how charges for an event should be handled and to whom invoices should be addressed.
Island booth
Marketing collateral
Billing instructions
Material handling
26. Complimentary tickets awarded by the official airline after the event according to the number of attendees who used the airline.
Productivity ticket
Smart form
American Plan (Full American Plan)
Exhibitor-appointed contractor (EAC)
27. LTL. Rates applicable when the quantity of freight is less than the volume of truckload minimum weight.
Less than truckload
Peninsula booth
Distance learning
Telecommunications devices for the deaf (TDD)
28. 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.
Press conference
Minimum labor call
Publicity
Russian restaurant service
29. A food service operation in which customers carry their own trays and select food from a display counter or counters. It is similar to a buffet - but food is served by attendants.
Cafeteria service
Speakers bureau
Specialty contractor
Theater set-up
30. 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
Offer
Peninsula booth
Butler service
Mitigation
31. One or more standard units of exhibit space. In the US - a standard unit is generally known to be a 10' x 10' space (one standard booth/stand unit - equaling 100 nsf). However - if an exhibitor purchases multiple units side-by-side or back-to-back -
Shuttle service
Van line
Booth
Feedback
32. A return of part of a payment.
Rebates
Function set-up order
Dram shop laws
Ground support
33. Items that an exhibitor is allowed to carry unaided into a event facility without being charged.
Post event report
Podcast
Blog
Hand carry
34. Private room bar set up where guests do not pay for drinks.
Open bar (host bar)
APEX RFP
Cash accounting
Post-con
35. Wooden platform used to carry goods. See SKID.
Certificate of origin
Continuing Legal Education (CLE)
Tone
Pallet
36. Risk that an organization takes when dealing with foreign currency due to exchange rates fluctuating over time.
Schedule of services
Room-based videoconferencing
Production company
Foreign exchange currency risk
37. Raised platform.
Flying
Broadband
Riser
Cash bar
38. Sports shirt (possibly with jacket) for men; resort wear for women.
Shopping cart
Convention services manager (CSM)
Casual attire
Social host
39. 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
French cart service
Leko
Waiver of subrogation
Room-based videoconferencing
40. The transfer of monies into and out of an enterprise.
Cash flow
Accrual accounting
Marketing plan
Schoolroom set-up
41. Facility form to advise departments of changes in reservations or functions.
Change order
Equalizer
Gobo
Concession
42. AKA Post Conference.Any event which is arranged for the period immediately following the conference proper.
Contract
Post-con
Dais
Telecommunications devices for the deaf (TDD)
43. 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
Consular invoice
Installation and dismantle (I&D)
Press kit
Skid
44. Platters of food are composed in the kitchen. Each food item is then served from the guest's left by the server from platters to individual plates. Any course can be 'Frenched' by having the dressing put on the salad or having sauce added to a entrée
Straight time
Press kit
French banquet service
Linear booth
45. 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
Network
Uplink
Special event professional
46. A group of voluntary committee members with vested interests in program content who are commonly used to establish direction for educational programs offered at association meetings.
Material handling (formerly drayage)
Riser
Variable costs
ducational programming committee
47. 1) A research method based upon selecting a portion of a population for study. 2) Paperwork and fees paid to a building by exhibitors for the right to serve food product.
Sampling
Trade-out
Leko
Cash accounting
48. Executive responsible for financial affairs of an organization.
Export license
Smart form
Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
Line level
49. 1) Display of reports and papers - usually scientific - accompanied by authors or researchers. 2) A session dedicated to the discussion of the posters shown inside the meeting area. When this discussion is not held in a special session - it can take
Distance learning
Desktop videoconferenceing (DVC)
Cash accounting
Poster session
50. Educational and/or social events planned for spouses and guests of event participants.
Association of Destination Management Executives (ADME)
Real-time
Accommodation
Guest program