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CMP: Certified Meeting Professional
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1. 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
Clause
CYC
Accreditation
Green event
2. 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
Network
Bandwidth
French banquet service
Shopping cart
3. 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
Pay-per-view
Export declaration
Air waybill
Press conference
4. 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.
Target date
Assisted listening devices (ALD)
Overtime
Stand
5. 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.
Offer
PCMA Space Verification Program
Event specifications guide (ESG)
Banquet event order (BEO)
6. A government document which permits the "licensee" to engage in the export of designated goods to certain destinations.
PCMA Space Verification Program
Marketing
Booth
Export license
7. The type of platform that multi-purpose technology solutions designed to handle many event planning and management tasks are built on. They range in price from a few hundred dollars for a basic single-user program to hundreds of thousands of dollars
Association of Destination Management Executives (ADME)
Lifelong learning
Relational databases
Needs assessment
8. 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.
Kiosk
Internatinoal Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET)
Association of Destination Management Executives (ADME)
Material handling
9. A meeting of a number of experts in a particular field - at which papers are presented and discussed by specialists on particular subjects with a view to making recommendations concerning the problems under discussion.
Straight-row seating
Network
Symposium
American service
10. 1) The opposite of real-time. 2) Audio and/or video programming available on a Web site after the completion of an event - providing this content so Web site visitors can listen or view at their discretion. 3) FAX system for sending out faxed materia
Export declaration
On-demand
Commerical invoice
Paid-out
11. An individual who guides discussion and/or decision making.
Post-event meeting
Facilitator
Audiovisual A/V
Rider
12. Company which designs and handles some or all elements of incentive travel programs.
Multi-point bridge
Webcast
Incentive travel company
Exhibitor prospectus
13. An event that incoporates environmental considerations throughout all states of the planning process in order to minimize the negative impact on the environment.
Green event
Exclusive
Continuing education
Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME)
14. Building an event budet by analyzing both the projected and actual figures from the previous year's budget.
Incremental budgeting
Colloquium
Trade show facilitation website
Certification
15. Sequential numbering as part of a total number of pieces indicated on each package - carton - or crate. For example - box number 2 of 12.
Assisted listening devices (ALD)
Lot labeling
V-shape set-up
Scoop
16. 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.
Set-up
Cash bar
Russian restaurant service
Request for proposal (RFP)
17. 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.
DVCam
Non-performance
Lead retrieval
LED Light Emitting Diode
18. Period when the demand for a supplier's product or service is lowest. Prices general decrease in low season.
Low season
Focus group
Exhibitor service manual
Barrier-free
19. 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
Exhibitor service manual
Waiver of subrogation
Confirmation number
Professional congress organizer (PCO)
20. 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.
Billing instructions
Leko
Outboarding
Backbone
21. An audio signal generated by a microphone.
Mic level
Russian restaurant service
Group ware
Radio frequency identification (RFID)
22. Facility form to advise departments of changes in reservations or functions.
Productivity ticket
Change order
Caterer
Gobo
23. AP. A type of hotel rate that includes the price of the room and all meals. Also Called FULL AMERICAN PLAN (FAP).
Exhibitor-appointed contractor (EAC)
Audience polling
Charter
American Plan (Full American Plan)
24. Period when the demand for a supplier's product or service is neither high nor low.
Association of Destination Management Executives (ADME)
Shoulder season
Russian restaurant service
Budget
25. Series of tables set up in the shape of the letter U with chairs set all around on one or both sides.
T-shape set-up
U-shape set-up
LCD projector
Exhibition service contractor
26. A member of the Convention Industry Council.
National Speakers Association (NSA)
Equalizer
Multi-management firm
Marketing plan
27. 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
Download
Consular invoice
Packing list
Transfer
28. Ability to transmit huge volumes of voice and video over a network or the internet - without jumpy images.
Limited power of attorney
Broadband
Booking agent
Straight-row seating
29. A facility that provides a dedicated environment for events - especially small events. May be certified by the International Association of Conference Centers.
lanning committee
Conference center
V-shape set-up
Webconferencing
30. In which rows of tables with chairs face the front of a room and each person has a space for writing.
Minimum labor call
Schoolroom set-up
Advance registration
Webcast
31. 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
Radio frequency identification (RFID)
Continuing education
Application service provider (ASP)
Less than truckload
32. 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.
Mixer
Copy editor
Air waybill
Real-time
33. Equipment - materials - and teaching aids used in sound and visual presentations - such as television monitors - video - sound equipment - etc.
Opt-out
Break-even point
Audiovisual A/V
Trade-out
34. 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 -
Booth
APEX RFP
Mailing list
Convention services manager (CSM)
35. Booth/stand space with aisles on all four sides.
Island booth
Post event report
Fixed costs
Interface
36. AP. A type of hotel rate that includes the price of the room and all meals. Also Called FULL AMERICAN PLAN (FAP).
Symposium
Full American Plan
Publicity
Chart of accounts
37. European term for booth or exhibit.
Room block
Stand
Application sharing
APEX Post Event Report (PER)
38. 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.
Social host
Commission
Group specifications guide
Event profile
39. Lens which produces a soft edged beam of light. Theatrical fixture with adjustable lens 150 W through 1500 W.
Schoolroom set-up
Fresnel
Stand
Budget
40. Staff person responsible for selling and servicing group and local food and beverage functions.
Hold harmless
Catering manager
Transfer
Tone
41. I&D. 1) The set-up and teardown of exhibits. 2) Firm that does I&D work.
Outsourcing
Attrition clause
Installation and dismantle (I&D)
Rebates
42. 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.
B2B
Arrival pattern
Linear booth
Confrontation
43. An alternative plan that may replace the original plan when circumstances change.
Complimentary room
American Bar Association (ABA)
Contingency plan
Kiosk
44. 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.
Ground support
2-D bar code
Jurisdiction
Exhibitor prospectus
45. Downloadable audio and video programs playable on MP3 players. This type of application may change the face of event marketing.
Cafeteria service
Link
Style sheet
Podcast
46. Educational and/or social events planned for spouses and guests of event participants.
Full American Plan
Guest program
Cut-off date
Carnet
47. 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.
Sponsorship
Radio frequency identification (RFID)
Telecommunications devices for the deaf (TDD)
On consumption
48. RFP. A document that stipulates what services the organization wants from an outside contractor and requests a bid to perform such services. Same As BID MANUAL/SPECIFICATIONS.
Feedback
Theater set-up
Smart card
Request for proposal (RFP)
49. Final official listing of all passengers and/or cargo aboard a transportation vehicle or vessel.
Pallet
Arbitration
Manifest
Chat room
50. Total number of sleeping rooms that are utilized and attributable to one event.
Survey
Contract
Room block
Pre-set