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CMP: Certified Meeting Professional
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1. Accredited designation offered by the National Speakers Association. This designation is earned for extensive - documented speaking experience and client satisfaction.
Yield management
Barrier-free
Floor plan
Certified Speaking Professional (CSP)
2. 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 -
Press kit
Pre-set
Covers
Videoconferencing
3. 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
Poster session
Manifest
Exhibitor-appointed contractor (EAC)
Flate rate
4. 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
Freight forwarder
Hardwall
Event specifications guide (ESG)
Rooming list
5. The station which receives data transmissions from a communications satellite.
Stacked speaker system
Outsourcing
Hundredweight (CWT)
Downlink
6. 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.
Yield management
Production company
Concession
Manifest
7. 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.
APEX Post Event Report (PER)
Chat room
Lead retrieval
Continuing Legal Education (CLE)
8. Provision in a contract which outlines damages to be paid to the non-canceling party if cancellation occurs - due the canceling party's breach of the contract.
Cancellation Clause
Trade show facilitation website
Opt-out
Exhibitor prospectus
9. A government document which permits the "licensee" to engage in the export of designated goods to certain destinations.
Arrival pattern
Continuing Education Unit (CEU)
Export license
Fresnel
10. 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.
Publicity
Citywide event
Convention center
ducational programming committee
11. Legal responsibility. An obligation to pay an amount in damages. In a non-legal context - something that is a negative factor.
Media relations
Fresnel
Accrual accounting
Liability
12. An email marketing campaign that only sends messages to users who have requested (or opted-in) to receive specific types of information. Email conference reminders and newsletters are examples of opt-in email marketing campaigns based upon permission
Certification
Opt-in
Whiteboarding
Credit card badge
13. A voluntary and selective amount of money - given at will for special or excellent service.
Network
Tip
Unopposed exhibit hours
Multi-management firm
14. A statement of revenues and expenses. Also known as a profit & loss statement.
Value-added tax (VAT)
Confrontation
Income statement
Official carrier
15. 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
Hospitality suite
Peripheral block
Tone
Facilitator
16. A list of special spellings - terms and style points to be used consistently in publications related to an event.
Destination management company (DMC)
Override
Style sheet
Indirect costs
17. 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.
Smart form
Authorized signatory
Bandwidth
Chart of accounts
18. 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.
Clause
Cut-off date
Attrition clause
Schoolroom set-up
19. 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
In-house contractor
Lot labeling
Interface
Special event professional
20. 1) Meeting of several persons for intensive discussion. The workshop concept has been developed to compensate for diverging views in a particular discipline or on a particular subject. 2) Informal and public session of free discussion organized to ta
Master account
Commission
Workshop
Assisted listening devices (ALD)
21. 1) Registering in advance to attend an event. See ADVANCE REGISTRATION. 2) At a facility - pre-assigned sleeping rooms available for occupancy.
ISDN
Pre-registration
Event profile
Russian banquet service
22. A marketing plan should answer the question - What is the benefit to attending the event?
Value proposition
Pay-per-view
Russian banquet service
Contract
23. The transfer of monies into and out of an enterprise.
Theater set-up
Cash flow
Outboarding
Desktop videoconferenceing (DVC)
24. Computer Assisted Drawing/Computer Assisted Manufacturing. Some facilities have CAD systems to provide room setup diagrams.
Backwall
Secure digital certificate
Needs assessment
Computer assisted drawing (CAD)
25. Risk that an organization takes when dealing with foreign currency due to exchange rates fluctuating over time.
Fishbowl
Foreign exchange currency risk
In-house contractor
Smart form
26. A record of transactions during an event where the resulting balance is paid directly by the group. May include room - tax - incidentals - food and beverage - audiovisual equipment - decor - etc. Also Called MASTER BILL.
Target date
Feedback
Master account
Concession
27. 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.
Promotion
Quick set
General service contractor GSC
Pallet
28. The organization who provides accrediation for Continuing Medical Education (CME).
Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME)
Specialty contractor
Zone fare
T-shape set-up
29. 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
Certificate of insurance
Russian restaurant service
Space assignment
Peripheral block
30. Absence of obstacles preventing handicapped persons from moving freely to all public areas within a building.
Schoolroom set-up
Barrier-free
Dram shop laws
Shopping cart
31. Transportation for participants; usually by coach or van - provided on a continuous basis for a certain time period.
Shuttle service
Travel agency
Cash flow
Post-con
32. 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)
Customs broker
Outsourcing
Outboarding
33. Any meeting where people at two or more distant locations are linked using video - audio and data for two-way communication via satellite communications or the Internet. Each party sees and hears the other through a TV screen or computer monitor and
Pre-set
Chat room
Room block
Virtual conferencing
34. The activities that are undertaken to either reduce the probability that an emergency or crisis will occur or reduce the consequences if it does occur.
Accessibility
Mitigation
Straight time
Equalizer
35. Downloadable audio and video programs playable on MP3 players. This type of application may change the face of event marketing.
Podcast
Post-event report PER
Citywide event
Mag-stripe
36. 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
Site inspection
T-1 line
Truckload
37. Period when the demand for a supplier's product or service is neither high nor low.
Shoulder season
Override
Variable costs
Certificate of insurance
38. 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.
Group ware
Reservation review date
Concession
Poster session
39. Person or firm which is licensed and specializes in travel related arrangements - such booking hotel rooms - meals - transportation - cruises - tours - vacation packages and other travel elements.
Contract
Travel agent
Union
Two-tiered set-up
40. 1) Any seat - berth - room - or service provided and/or sold to a guest - attendee or passenger. 2) Under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) - a step taken to allow a person with a disability to participate in an event or employment.
Production company
Export declaration
Combination bar
Accommodation
41. AKA Housing Bureau. Organization that provides reservation services for a group and its attendees.
Cash accounting
Housing company
Catering manager
Peripheral block
42. 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.
Function set-up order
Packing list
Schoolroom set-up
Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME)
43. Continuning education requirements for legal professionals are adminstered by the American Bar Association (ABA).
Open bar (host bar)
Continuing Legal Education (CLE)
Budget
B2B
44. 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.
Unopposed exhibit hours
Stand
Exhibitor-appointed contractor (EAC)
Consular invoice
45. 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.
Hospitality suite
Rider
Liability
Overtime
46. 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.
Exhibition manager
Lead retrieval
Alternative dispute resolution (ADR)
Force majeure
47. A type of room rate that includes breakfast and one other meal (usually dinner).
Flying
Modified American Plan MAP
Riser
Sub-block
48. 1) A statement of what one will give or take in return for something else (a price); proposal. 2) Proposal submitted by a convention & visitors bureau and/or hotel(s) to an event organizer that includes defined dates and room blocks.
Cash bar
On-demand
Bid
Modified American Plan
49. Individuals who will participate in the pre-event meetings. Generally includes the planner - key members of planner's staff - CSM - Catering Managers - A/V representatives - room set-up representatives - etc.
Two-tiered set-up
Income statement
lanning committee
Scoop
50. The presenter is questioned by a moderator on behalf of the audience.
Clause
Pick-up
Interview
Pre-set