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CMP: Certified Meeting Professional
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1. 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.
Budget
Front projection
Post event report
Incentive travel company
2. 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
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
Green event
Style
Cancellation clause
3. 1) Airline lift into and out of a destination. 2) Capable of being used by people with physical challenges and disabilities. This is an important aspect of the United States' Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
Set top box solutions (STBS)
Certificate of insurance
Accessibility
Flying
4. 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.
Customs broker
Sales lead
Assisted listening devices (ALD)
Lecture
5. AKA Post Conference.Any event which is arranged for the period immediately following the conference proper.
Value-added tax (VAT)
Point-to-multipoint videoconference
Hospitality suite
Post-con
6. 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.
Business exchange
Outboarding
APEX Post Event Report (PER)
Booth
7. AKA Group Travel Agency. Company specializing in planning and handling group travel.
Decorator
Internatinoal Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET)
Exhibitor service manual
Travel agency
8. Apparatus used for projecting photographic slides onto a screen. It will often have a remote (either wired or wireless) that can be used to advance the slides.
Provision
Link
Slide
APEX Post Event Report (PER)
9. The newest development in audio systems that can take traditional distributed systems - which require delay speakers to be hung throughout the room - to a new level. The advantage is that you can cover a room from a single line of speakers over the r
Overtime
Fishbowl
Line array
Integrated marketing
10. A speaker system that is typically used in ballrooms - exhibit hall venues - etc - and are most appropriate for voice reproduction.
Carnet
Intelligent lighting
Casual attire
Distributed speaker system
11. 1) Servers offer a variety of both hot and cold hors d'oeuvres on platters to guests at receptions. 2) A style of table service where guests serve themselves from platters presented by the server. 3) Specialized in-room service offered by a hotel.
Certificate of insurance
Butler service
Request for proposal (RFP)
Uplink
12. Minimum amount for which union labor must be paid.
Minimum labor call
Provision
Common carrier
Customs
13. Booth/stand space with aisles on all four sides.
Island booth
Press conference
APEX RFP
Colloquium
14. 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.
Whiteboarding
Hundredweight (CWT)
Contract
Complimentary room
15. 1) Enclosed lights used to illuminate the top of film and stage sets. 2) Group of speakers mounted in auditoriums - arenas - and theaters.
Contract
Dais
International event
Cluster
16. 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
Association of Destination Management Executives (ADME)
One-stop shop
Banquet event order (BEO)
Radio frequency identification (RFID)
17. The industry preferred term for a report of the details and activities of an event. A collection of post event reports over time will provide the complete History for an event. The industry accepted practice is to use the APEX POST EVENT REPORT - whi
Category cable
Demonstration
Post-event report PER
Set-up
18. Contract wording that outlines potential damages or fees that a party may be required to pay in the event that it does not fulfill minimum commitments in the contract.
Override
Facilitator
ducational programming committee
Attrition clause
19. 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.
Chat room
Post-con
Press release
Cut-off date
20. System of assigning points to exhibiting companies to determine which firms will be allowed to select booth/stand space for the next event first. Also Called PRIORITY RATING SYSTEM.
Priority point system
Truckload
B2B
ISDN
21. Assortment of foods - offered on a table - self-served.
Stand
Rebates
Buffet
Shopping cart
22. Legal responsibility. An obligation to pay an amount in damages. In a non-legal context - something that is a negative factor.
Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME)
Pro number
Export declaration
Liability
23. Contract wording that outlines potential damages or fees that a party may be required to pay in the event that it does not fulfill minimum commitments in the contract.
Paid-out
Attrition clause
Bandwidth
Force majeure
24. 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
Zone fare
Commerical invoice
Customs broker
Breakout session
25. 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.
Consideration
Lead retrieval
Freight forwarder
Ultraviolet lighting
26. 4 or 5 participants query the main speaker from the stage with questions from the audience and follow up questions.
Fiber-optic cable
Audience reaction team
Post-event meeting
Pay-per-view
27. 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
Rooming list
American Bar Association (ABA)
Rigging
Material handling
28. The person hired to review the content of advertising or marketing materials for consistency - accuracy - and to elminate repititious information.
Production company
On-demand
Line level
Copy editor
29. 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.
Broadcast Music - Inc. (BMI)
Good faith
Buzz session
Zone fare
30. Automated External Defibrillator. Device installed in many large public areas (e.g. airports - hotels - convention centers). Can be used by any individual to administer life-saving care to person experiencing a heart attack.
Real-time
Objective
Telecommunications devices for the deaf (TDD)
Automated external defibrillator (AED)
31. Two or more computers or peripherals that are linked together for the purpose of sharing data.
Concession
Network
Mitigation
Buffet
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.
Foreign exchange currency risk
Indemnification clause
PCMA Space Verification Program
Buzz session
33. 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.
Material handling (formerly drayage)
Unopposed exhibit hours
Sampling
Ground support
34. Accounts receivable made available to individuals or firms with established credit.
Function set-up order
Multi-management firm
Direct billing
Social host
35. A needs assessment is an essential setp in ensuring that educational offerings are relevant to attendees. The results of post-event evaluations can be as valuable as a needs assessment.
Needs assessment
Platform
Booth
Complimentary
36. Light-weight aluminum tubing and drapery used to separate exhibit booths/stands - staging areas - and other similar locations.
Continuing education
Marketing
Multi-point bridge
Pipe & drape
37. 1) Critiquing and rating the overall success of an event. 2) Developing an event profile from accurate event statistics.
Convention and visitors bureau (CVB)
Lead retrieval
Association of Destination Management Executives (ADME)
Evaluation
38. FP. Projection of an image onto the front surface of a light reflecting screen from a projector placed within or behind the audience.
Commission
Continuing Legal Education (CLE)
Front projection
APEX
39. European term for booth or exhibit.
T-1 line
Stand
Buzz session
Intelligent lighting
40. When online activities take place at a designated time - they are referred to as real-time events. A Webcast of a keynote presenter that can be watched live over the Internet is an example of a real-time event.
Provision
Overtime
Real-time
Flying
41. 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.
Business exchange
On consumption
Lead retrieval
Platform
42. 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.
Familiarization (fam) trip
Deposit
Cancellation clause
Marketing collateral
43. The right granted by one party to let a another party use live or recorded music through special agreements and fee structures.
Music licensing
APEX
Consular invoice
Audiovisual A/V
44. Building an event budget on estimates of potential income and likely expenses because there is no financial history from prior events available to use.
Lead retrieval
Marshalling yard
Master account
Zero-based budgeting
45. A type of room rate that includes breakfast and one other meal (usually dinner).
Accommodation
Continuing Legal Education (CLE)
Modified American Plan MAP
Direct billing
46. Requirement of many professional groups by which members must certify participation in formal educational programs designed to maintain their level of ability beyond their original certification date. CEUs are non-academic credit. One CEU is awarded
Continuing Education Unit (CEU)
LCD projector
Non-performance
DSL
47. An organization that provides event management and exhibitors with a wide range of services - sometimes including - but not limited to - Installation & Dismantle - creating and hanging signage and banners - laying carpet - drayage - and providing boo
General service contractor GSC
Value proposition
Russian banquet service
ISDN
48. A marketing plan should answer the question - What is the benefit to attending the event?
Value proposition
Kiosk
Suitcasing
Pay-per-view
49. Method of doing research using a small group led by a facilitator.
Focus group
Lead retrieval
Backwall
Outsourcing
50. Risk that an organization takes when dealing with foreign currency due to exchange rates fluctuating over time.
Flate rate
Foreign exchange currency risk
Provision
Survey