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CMP: Certified Meeting Professional
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1. 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.
Media relations
Straight time
Set-up
Assisted listening devices (ALD)
2. Pre-program information distributed to tour guides - field representatives - venues or vendors - regarding the details of their program assignment for a given event or program.
Schedule of services
In conjunction with (ICW)
Freight forwarder
Dimensional weight
3. 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
PAR
CYC
Relational databases
Dimensional weight
4. An additional clause in artist's contract stipulating special requirements such as travel - dressing rooms - technical equipment - etc.
Focus group
Value proposition
Rider
Wireless microphone
5. A marketing plan should answer the question - What is the benefit to attending the event?
Simultaneous translation
Mediation
Marketing collateral
Value proposition
6. 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.
Jurisdiction
Category cable
Post-con
APEX RFP
7. MAP. A type of room rate that includes breakfast and one other meal (usually dinner).
Modified American Plan
Pre-event meeting
Press conference
Association of Destination Management Executives (ADME)
8. Educational and/or social events planned for spouses and guests of event participants.
Billing instructions
Guest program
Jurisdiction
Reservation review date
9. Casting video images on monitors or on large screen.
Video projection
Chart of accounts
Peripheral block
Barrier-free
10. All individuals who are invested in a project or event such as the sponsors - attendees - vendors - media and others.
Net worth
U-shape set-up
Stakeholder
Floor plan
11. 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
Hundredweight (CWT)
Rooming list
Exhibition service contractor
Caterer
12. A type of audio system for meetings and concerts. The speakers sit on the floor and project from each side of the room. The sound may be louder in the front than the back.
DLP projector
Exhibitor Advisory Committee
Stacked speaker system
Balance sheet
13. A feature of many videoconference systems that allows participants at each conference site to view and edit the same document.
Barrier-free
Virtual conferencing
Flying
Document sharing
14. Raised horizontal surface - stage - or flooring.
Green event
Survey
Platform
Mailing list
15. Contractor retained by a facility to be on-site and provide services as needed. In some cases - Planners are not required to use their services - but may be charged a surcharge or facility fee for bringing in an outside contractor for the same servic
Continuing Education Unit (CEU)
In-house contractor
Tip
Cancellation or Interruption Insurance
16. Truckload rates apply where the tariff shows a truckload minimum weight. Charges will be at the truckload minimum weight unless weight is higher.
Truckload
Butler service
Speakers bureau
2-D bar code
17. A cable that is made up of tiny glass strands that are wrapped and bundled together to make up a cable. Fiber can transmit voice - data and video at gigabyte speed - or 1 billion bytes per second - with less signal loss than copper wire because the s
Fiber-optic cable
Dais
Pro number
Lectern
18. 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
Net worth
Return on investment ROI
Document sharing
Press kit
19. Certified Professional Catering Executive. A certification program offered by the National Association of Catering Executives (NACE).
Copy editor
Banquet event order (BEO)
Certified Professional Catering Executive (CPCE)
Pre-event meeting
20. 1) Enclosed lights used to illuminate the top of film and stage sets. 2) Group of speakers mounted in auditoriums - arenas - and theaters.
Conflict of interest statement
Attrition clause
Ground support
Cluster
21. An event that requires the use of a convention center or event complex - as well as multiple hotels in the host city.
Certificate of insurance
Net worth
Citywide event
APEX RFP
22. Facility that combines an exhibition space with a substantial number of smaller event spaces. The purpose of these buildings is to host trade shows - public shows - conventions - large food functions and other functions related to the convention indu
Facilitator
Application service provider (ASP)
Convention center
Multi-point bridge
23. A hollow square whose corners are replaced by serpentine or half-moon tables.
Rounded hollow square
Continuing Education Unit (CEU)
Lead retrieval
U-shape set-up
24. Event held to communicate information to media representatives.
Clause
Press conference
Alternative dispute resolution (ADR)
T-1 line
25. An ongoing effort by an organization to develop relationships with key media representatives before - during - and after an event.
Travel agency
B2B
Van line
Media relations
26. 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
Contract
Teleconferencing
Room-based videoconferencing
Customs broker
27. Absence of obstacles preventing handicapped persons from moving freely to all public areas within a building.
Network
Scoop
Freight forwarder
Barrier-free
28. Video tape recorder and player utilizing ½-inch (1.27 centimeter) tape. Not compatible with beta format.
VHS Video Home System
American Bar Association (ABA)
Conference reminder
Modified American Plan MAP
29. A document - required by certain countries for tariff purposes - certifying as to the country of origin of specified goods.
Certificate of origin
Arrival pattern
Post event report
Banquet event order (BEO)
30. An account (usually a number) to which expenses for a function or activity are charged.
Freight forwarder
Cost center
Barrier-free
Certificate of insurance
31. A media campaign - normally consisting of a series of public notices and advertising activities - aimed at ensuring maximum attendance by focusing attention on an event.
In-house contractor
Shoulder season
Publicity
Complimentary room
32. 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.
Outsourcing
PCMA Space Verification Program
Certificate of origin
Break-even point
33. 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.
Van line
Pro number
Concession
Interface
34. A labor organization - typically made up of workers from the same trade formed for the purpose of advancing its members' interests such as dealing collectively with their employer on issues of wages - hours - working conditions and other matters pert
Schoolroom set-up
Union
Master account
Chat room
35. International Association for Continuing Education and Training.
Internatinoal Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET)
Island booth
Banquet event order (BEO)
Material handling (formerly drayage)
36. 1) Broadly - one who acts or has the power to act: more usually - one that acts as the representative of another. Most frequently in travel - a specific kind of agent such as a retail travel agent. 2) Person that obtains engagements for entertainers
Customs broker
APEX
Installation and dismantle (I&D)
Booking agent
37. 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.
Mitigation
Secure digital certificate
Continuing Legal Education (CLE)
Customs
38. A prepared statement released to the news media. Can be "For immediate release -" or at a specified time or date; an article intended for use by the media about a company - product - service - individual - or show. Also Called NEWS RELEASE.
Lecture
Waiver of subrogation
Service charge
Press release
39. Accepted Practices Exchange. An initiative of the meetings - conventions & exhibitions industry managed by the Convention Industry Council (CIC). APEX develops and manages the implementation of accepted practices (voluntary standards) for the industr
Gratuity
Professional congress organizer (PCO)
APEX
Hundredweight (CWT)
40. 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
On-demand
American Society of Composers - Authors and Publishers (ASCAP)
Shoulder season
Variable costs
41. Service for meeting and greeting a person upon arrival in a city - usually at the airport - pier or rail station and assisting him or her with entrance formalities - collecting baggage and obtaining transportation.
Modified American Plan MAP
Meet and greet
Arrival pattern
Sales lead
42. Detailed section of a contract.
Mitigation
Advance registration
Wireless microphone
Provision
43. Representatives of an event's exhibiting companies who act as advisers to show management on rules and procedures - and also update show management on industry trends and issues.
Change order
Survey
Booth
Exhibitor Advisory Committee
44. A statement of estimated revenues and expenditures for a specified period of time; divided into subject categories and arranged by principal areas of revenue and expense.
Protocol
Arrival pattern
Rear projection
Budget
45. 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.
T-3 line
French banquet service
Accessibility
Lectern
46. An agreement between two or more parties that creates in each party a duty to do or not do something and a right to performance of the other's duty or a remedy for the breach of the other's duty.
Lifelong learning
Linear booth
Continuing Medical Education (CME)
Contract
47. 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
2-D bar code
Point-to-multipoint videoconference
Rider
Waiver of subrogation
48. 1) A food service vendor - often used to describe a vendor who specializes in banquets and theme parties. 2) An exclusive food & beverage contractor within a facility.
Specialty contractor
Internatinoal Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET)
Caterer
Audience reaction team
49. Notice as to how charges for an event should be handled and to whom invoices should be addressed.
Pad-wrapped
Interview
Mandatory Continuing Legal Education (MCLE)
Billing instructions
50. 1) Exclusive use of all or some space on an airplane - bus - ship - or other vehicle for a special period of time and for a specific itinerary. 2) To create a new association - organization or chapter of an association or organization.
DVCam
Charter
Change order
Certified Speaking Professional (CSP)