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CMP: Certified Meeting Professional
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1. A marketing plan should answer the question - What is the benefit to attending the event?
Value proposition
Uplink
Conference reminder
Streaming
2. 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.
Network
National Speakers Association (NSA)
Focus group
Commission
3. Raised platform usually above the floor of a hall or large room.
Backwall
Dais
Audiovisual A/V
Facilitator
4. Efforts of a dissident group to obstruct the conduct of an event.
Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME)
Audience reaction team
Confrontation
Customs broker
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.
Rebates
Release date
Green event
PCMA Space Verification Program
6. 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
Familiarization (fam) trip
Pro number
On-demand
Pre-event meeting
7. Contractor appointed by event or building management as the sole agent to provide specific services or products.
National Speakers Association (NSA)
Exclusive contractor
Exhibitor-appointed contractor (EAC)
In-house contractor
8. Insurance that protects a event organizer against financial loss or expenses incurred when contractually specified perils necessitate canceling or relocating a event - or cause a reduction in attendance.
Cancellation or Interruption Insurance
Breakout session
Room block
Convention center
9. The day-to-day cost of doing business that is pre-committed - such as salaries - insurance - lease expenses - utilities - etc.
Fixed costs
Pad-wrapped
Cash accounting
Confrontation
10. Airline company designated airline of choice for an event in exchange for special rates or services.
Attrition clause
Official carrier
Travel agency
Freight forwarder
11. Compression/Decompression or Coder/Decoder. Videoconferencing standard - included in hardware and/or software - used to compress or code video - audio - and data signals for transmission and decompress or decode the signal at the other end of the tra
Event profile
CODEC
Market segments
Association of Destination Management Executives (ADME)
12. 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.
Opt-out
Stand
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
Contract
13. A nonprofit organization representing specific destinations formerly known as the International Association of Convention & Visitors Bureaus. Members have expert knowledge of their city and its surrounding areas; typically they represent local hotels
Omnidirectional microphone
Focus group
Destination Marketing Association International
Space assignment
14. In-person on-site review and evaluation of a venue or location for an event.
ite inspection
Telecommunications devices for the deaf (TDD)
Bid
Room block
15. 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.
Continental breakfast
LCD projector
Concession
Continuing Education Unit (CEU)
16. An alternative plan that may replace the original plan when circumstances change.
Pre-event meeting
Contingency plan
Shopping cart
Speakers bureau
17. I&D. 1) The set-up and teardown of exhibits. 2) Firm that does I&D work.
Installation and dismantle (I&D)
Return on investment ROI
Download
Message board
18. 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
Streaming
Rounded hollow square
Combination bar
APEX Post Event Report (PER)
19. Certified Special Event Professional; an earned designation from the International Special Events Society (ISES).
French cart service
Certified Special Event Professional (CSEP)
Straight-row seating
Integrated marketing
20. 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.
Provision
Meet and greet
Break-even point
Russian restaurant service
21. Sports shirt (possibly with jacket) for men; resort wear for women.
Net worth
Foreign exchange currency risk
French banquet service
Casual attire
22. Seating arrangement in which chairs are arranged in rows slanted in a V shape and separated by a center aisle. They face the head table or speaker.
V-shape set-up
Hundredweight (CWT)
Uplink
Authorized signatory
23. 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
In conjunction with (ICW)
Customs broker
Equalizer
Backwall
24. In Conjunction With. An event or function that occurs because of another event.
In conjunction with (ICW)
Sponsorship
Non-performance
Income statement
25. Facility form to advise departments of changes in reservations or functions.
Change order
Seminar
Distributed speaker system
Continuing education
26. Equipment - materials - and teaching aids used in sound and visual presentations - such as television monitors - video - sound equipment - etc.
Meeting Information Network (MINT)
Audiovisual A/V
Straight-row seating
Slide
27. Accounts receivable made available to individuals or firms with established credit.
Meet and greet
NCR form
Direct billing
Specialty contractor
28. A type of digital telecommunication line that provides high speed internet access for mulitple users.
Budget
Interview
Audiovisual A/V
ISDN
29. Raised horizontal surface - stage - or flooring.
Incremental budgeting
Freight forwarder
Platform
Material handling (formerly drayage)
30. Proof of Registration - i.e. - a reservation number that will be accepted by the hotel holding the room.
Category cable
Confirmation number
Media relations
Attrition clause
31. 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
Walk
Waiver of subrogation
Shopping cart
Needs assessment
32. Computer Assisted Drawing/Computer Assisted Manufacturing. Some facilities have CAD systems to provide room setup diagrams.
Mediation
Certified Professional Catering Executive (CPCE)
Computer assisted drawing (CAD)
Ultraviolet lighting
33. Light morning meal consisting of pastries - juices - and hot beverages. Usually served buffet style.
Cafeteria service
Continental breakfast
DLP projector
Exhibit house
34. 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
Specialty contractor
Gratuity
Pay-per-view
Event profile
35. Flat rate for which a hotel or motel agrees to offer any of its available sleeping rooms (with the exception of suites) to a group. Final assignment of rooms is at the discretion of the hotel. See RUN-OF-THE-HOUSE RATE.
Flate rate
Evaluation
Customs broker
Bid
36. 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
Stacked speaker system
NCR form
Waiver of subrogation
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
37. Placing plated foods on banquet tables prior to seating guests.
Pre-set
Contingency plan
Fishbowl
Familiarization (fam) trip
38. Computer application that enables voting and then collects and displays the results - simplifying decision-making among event participants.
Concession
Platform
Shuttle service
Audience polling
39. 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.
Exhibitor-appointed contractor (EAC)
lanning committee
Schedule of services
Bid
40. 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.
Marketing plan
Flying
Ground support
Resolution
41. 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.
Hold harmless
Real-time
Pre-registration
Skid
42. 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.
Sales lead
Objective
U-shape set-up
Peripheral block
43. Assortment of foods - offered on a table - self-served.
Buffet
Yield management
Force majeure
Conference reminder
44. Period when the demand for a supplier's product or service is lowest. Prices general decrease in low season.
Van line
National Speakers Association (NSA)
Low season
Override
45. Transmitting data at speeds of up to 1.544 Mbps - operates at a much higher capacity than an ISDN line and can be split to accommodate several users at one time (known as a fractional T-1).
Blog
T-1 line
LED Light Emitting Diode
Modified American Plan MAP
46. 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.
Certified Speaking Professional (CSP)
Mag-stripe
Butler service
Integrated marketing
47. Transfer a file from a host computer to your computer.
Distributed speaker system
Convention center
Group ware
Download
48. 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.
Symposium
Request for proposal (RFP)
Sales lead
Alternative dispute resolution (ADR)
49. Total number of sleeping rooms that are utilized and attributable to one event.
Poster session
Room block
Simultaneous translation
Break-even point
50. 1) Certified Meeting Professional. 2) Complete Meeting Package at conference centers; includes lodging - all food and beverage - support services - including audio visual equipment - room rental - etc.
Lead retrieval
Certified Meeting Professional (CMP)
Uplink
Video projection