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CMP: Certified Meeting Professional
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1. Event held to communicate information to media representatives.
Press conference
Debate
American Plan (Full American Plan)
Linear booth
2. Complimentary tickets awarded by the official airline after the event according to the number of attendees who used the airline.
Mailing list
Network
Priority point system
Productivity ticket
3. A music licensing organization that represents individuals who hold the copyrights to music written in the United States. It grants licensing agreements for the performance of music.
Specialty contractor
Broadcast Music - Inc. (BMI)
Value-added tax (VAT)
Multi-management firm
4. A pre-cut - etched pattern fabricated from metal or glass that fits in the focal plane of a lighting instrument to form projected light into a shape (logo - graphic or even scenery). Templates can form light images on ceilings and walls. The pattern
Line level
Digital video
Gobo
Good faith
5. Building an event budet by analyzing both the projected and actual figures from the previous year's budget.
Ultraviolet lighting
T-3 line
Audiovisual A/V
Incremental budgeting
6. 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.
Media relations
Exclusive
Inducements
Digital marketing
7. A list of special spellings - terms and style points to be used consistently in publications related to an event.
Projector
Style sheet
Russian restaurant service
Business exchange
8. A supplier of a specific event service - such as photography - rental of furniture or audiovisual equipment - or floral decoration.
Bandwidth
Specialty contractor
Strategic plan
Combination bar
9. A holding area where trucks or buses check in and wait for instructions before delivering or picking up freight or passengers.
Banquet event order (BEO)
APEX
Marshalling yard
Promotion
10. 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
Pipe & drape
Peninsula booth
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
Contingency plan
11. List of names and addresses of the persons to whom publicity material or other information is to be sent.
Certified Special Event Professional (CSEP)
Cluster
Mailing list
Marketing
12. 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
Customs broker
Pre-set
LED Light Emitting Diode
Kiosk
13. Required for shipments valued at more than $2500; used by the U.S. government to monitor the dollar volume of export shipments.
Webcast
Travel agency
Continuing Legal Education (CLE)
Export declaration
14. A stand upon which a speaker may rest notes or books. May be "standing -" which rests on the floor - or "table-top" which is placed on a table. Often confused with PODIUM.
Lectern
Post-event report PER
Evaluation
Backbone
15. Procurement - maintenance and transportation of materials. Involves all related functions and services.
PAR
American Society of Composers - Authors and Publishers (ASCAP)
Logistics
Credit card badge
16. 1) Room or suite of rooms used to entertain guests. 2) An event in the United States usually separate from the exhibit - in which refreshments are served and exhibitor personnel and visitors socialize.
Computer data projection
Hospitality suite
Zero-based budgeting
Cut-off date
17. The station which receives data transmissions from a communications satellite.
On-demand
Downlink
Override
DLP projector
18. Digital subscriber line. Brings high bandwidth via copper phone lines.
DSL
Group ware
Continuing Medical Education (CME)
Pre-registration
19. 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.
Combination bar
Accommodation
Production company
Bandwidth
20. FP. Projection of an image onto the front surface of a light reflecting screen from a projector placed within or behind the audience.
Copy editor
Contract
Certificate of insurance
Front projection
21. Accounts receivable made available to individuals or firms with established credit.
Confrontation
Island booth
Russian banquet service
Direct billing
22. Series of tables set up in the shape of the block T with chairs set all around except at the head table.
Island booth
Seminar
T-shape set-up
Zero-based budgeting
23. Program and process by which a participant completes proscribed training and passes an assessment.
PAR
Certified Professional Catering Executive (CPCE)
Certification
Post-event meeting
24. In which rows of tables with chairs face the front of a room and each person has a space for writing.
2-D bar code
Schoolroom set-up
Floor plan
Pre-con
25. 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
Two-tiered set-up
Radio frequency identification (RFID)
Audience polling
Arrival pattern
26. The person hired to review the content of advertising or marketing materials for consistency - accuracy - and to elminate repititious information.
Copy editor
Room-based videoconferencing
Incremental budgeting
VHS Video Home System
27. Raised horizontal surface - stage - or flooring.
Advance registration
Platform
Housing company
Low season
28. Relating to organizations whose membership hold common occupational credentials or interests.
Exhibitor-appointed contractor (EAC)
Video projection
Concession
Professional
29. Any agreement which limits who may provide specific products or services under certain conditions to only one party. A general service contractor - for instance - may have an "exclusive" in a particular facility - meaning that no other contractor is
Exclusive
Green event
Shuttle service
Pay-per-view
30. 1) The act of showing how to do something. 2) A group of individuals organized to picket or protest against a group using placards - literature - songs - shouts and - sometimes - marches or sit-ins.
Truckload
Projector
Demonstration
Tone
31. 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.
High season
Unopposed exhibit hours
Continental breakfast
Sales lead
32. 1) Common term for sealed beam spot or flood lamp with self-contained lens surfaced glass. 2) In golf - one less than bogey.
Complimentary room
Automated external defibrillator (AED)
ISDN
PAR
33. 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
ducational programming committee
VHS Video Home System
Minimum labor call
Customs broker
34. Lens which produces a soft edged beam of light. Theatrical fixture with adjustable lens 150 W through 1500 W.
Carnet
Acceptance
Fresnel
Limited power of attorney
35. 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
Post-con
Press kit
Contract
Two-tiered set-up
36. 1) The governmental authorities designated to collect duties levied by a country on imports and exports. The term also applies to the procedures involved in such collection. 2) Practices common to many of a particular group.
Customs
Incremental budgeting
Peripheral block
Indirect costs
37. Any group of rooms that is classified or separated differently than the general attendee block within the Event-Contracted Block (ECB).
Fiber-optic cable
Sub-block
Event-contracted block (ECB)
Audience polling
38. Airline company designated airline of choice for an event in exchange for special rates or services.
Open bar (host bar)
Official carrier
Pre-set
Manifest
39. An organization who locates and books speakers according to my specifications and budget.
Speakers bureau
Press conference
PCMA Space Verification Program
Scoop
40. A detailed list of the individual line items that make up the revenue and expense categories in a budget. A numbering system used to identify every line item in a budget - so income and expenses are posted to the correct accounts.
Real-time
Exhibitor Advisory Committee
Clause
Chart of accounts
41. AKA Classroom set-up. Seating arrangement in which rows of tables with chairs face the front of a room and each person has a space for writing. Also Called SCHOOLROOM SET-UP.
Projector
Fiber-optic cable
Theater set-up
Schoolroom set-up
42. Unpublished rates offered from the areas of the U.S. and Canada to specified event destinations; they do not require Saturday night stay over.
Zone fare
Platform
Attrition clause
Online registration
43. Video tape recorder and player utilizing ½-inch (1.27 centimeter) tape. Not compatible with beta format.
Overhead
Cash accounting
Certification
VHS Video Home System
44. 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
Shuttle service
Accreditation
Cafeteria service
Manifest
45. EAC. Any company other than the designated "official" contractor providing a service to an exhibitor. Can refer to an Install & Dismantle Company (I&D House) - photographer - florist or any other type of contractor.
Digital marketing
Exhibitor-appointed contractor (EAC)
Equalizer
Continuing Medical Education (CME)
46. Building an event budget on estimates of potential income and likely expenses because there is no financial history from prior events available to use.
Straight time
Zero-based budgeting
Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
Download
47. 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
Pick-up
Convention services manager (CSM)
Blog
Post-event meeting
48. A group of rooms that is reserved by a party outside of the ECB but is present in the city as a result of the Main Event (for example - some exhibitors - some international tour groups). A Peripheral Block's consumed room nights should be credited to
Yield management
Post-event report PER
Commerical invoice
Peripheral block
49. 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.
Room-based videoconferencing
Common carrier
T-1 line
Marketing collateral
50. Device used to compensate for undesired sound system characteristics or room acoustics.
Rooming list
Set-up
Confirmation number
Equalizer