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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
Butler service
Accreditation
Hold harmless
Good faith
2. 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.
Release date
Ground support
Act of God
Citywide event
3. Series of tables set up in the shape of the block T with chairs set all around except at the head table.
Material handling (formerly drayage)
Master account
Offer
T-shape set-up
4. A manner of behavior that touches all elements of communication and the way that we interact with customers and colleagues.
Modified American Plan
Etiquette
Wireless microphone
DLP projector
5. A seating arrangement with a row of seats on low risers around a BOARDROOM SET-UP. A very space-intensive set-up.
Set top box solutions (STBS)
Two-tiered set-up
Straight time
Customs broker
6. Digital subscriber line. Brings high bandwidth via copper phone lines.
Convention center
DSL
Booth
Customs broker
7. In which rows of tables with chairs face the front of a room and each person has a space for writing.
Rounded hollow square
CYC
Schoolroom set-up
Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
8. The rooms that are contracted for by an event organizer with a hotel(s) or housing facility(s) for a particular event.
Video projection
Conference center
Event-contracted block (ECB)
Schedule of services
9. Absence of obstacles preventing handicapped persons from moving freely to all public areas within a building.
Barrier-free
Pallet
Rear projection
Tone
10. 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
DVCam
In-house contractor
Protocol
Media relations
11. Using hypertext - a link is a selectable connection from one word - picture or information object to another. From a Web site - a link points to content.
Link
In-house contractor
Internatinoal Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET)
Suitcasing
12. A customs document permitting the holder to carry or send merchandise temporarily into certain foreign countries (for display - demonstration or similar purposes) without paying duties or posting bonds.
Material handling
Whiteboarding
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
Carnet
13. 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.
Russian restaurant service
Reservation review date
Audit
Publicity
14. Items that an exhibitor is allowed to carry unaided into a event facility without being charged.
lanning committee
Hand carry
American Plan (Full American Plan)
Override
15. AP. A type of hotel rate that includes the price of the room and all meals. Also Called FULL AMERICAN PLAN (FAP).
Event-contracted block (ECB)
Application sharing
Computer data projection
American Plan (Full American Plan)
16. MAP. A type of room rate that includes breakfast and one other meal (usually dinner).
Business exchange
Audit
Less than truckload
Modified American Plan
17. Accredited designation offered by the National Speakers Association. This designation is earned for extensive - documented speaking experience and client satisfaction.
Cancellation Clause
Cancellation clause
Certified Speaking Professional (CSP)
Booth
18. A system in which revenue and expenses are counted as they are actually received.
Green event
Specialty contractor
Resolution
Cash accounting
19. Association of Destination Management Executives. A member of the Convention Industry Council.
Network
Cancellation clause
Official carrier
Association of Destination Management Executives (ADME)
20. In-person on-site review and evaluation of a venue or location for an event.
ISDN
Hundredweight (CWT)
Quick set
ite inspection
21. 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.
Pallet
Lecture
Van line
Quick set
22. The point at which revenues are equal to expenses.
Break-even point
ISDN
Foreign exchange currency risk
lanning committee
23. 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.
On consumption
Export declaration
Marketing collateral
Fixed costs
24. Integrated services digital network. A single ISDN line carries data at 128 Kbps. Although video conferences are possible at slower speeds - ISDN is considered to be the minimum for acceptable-quality video transmission.
Link
Marshalling yard
Whiteboarding
ISDN
25. AKA Post Conference.Any event which is arranged for the period immediately following the conference proper.
Post-con
ISDN
General service contractor GSC
Wireless microphone
26. 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.
Secure digital certificate
Cancellation clause
Mic level
Press conference
27. Structure of event program elements to achieve specific goals and objectives.
Program design
Low season
Pad-wrapped
Room-based videoconferencing
28. Complimentary tickets awarded by the official airline after the event according to the number of attendees who used the airline.
Broadcast Music - Inc. (BMI)
Meeting Information Network (MINT)
Productivity ticket
Van line
29. A type of room rate that includes breakfast and one other meal (usually dinner).
Modified American Plan MAP
Poster session
Exhibitor service manual
Russian restaurant service
30. A member of the Convention Industry Council.
Pre-event meeting
Fresnel
Marketing plan
National Speakers Association (NSA)
31. Transportation for participants; usually by coach or van - provided on a continuous basis for a certain time period.
Debate
Shuttle service
Russian restaurant service
NCR form
32. 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.
Hardwall
Break-even point
Concession
Platform
33. Shipment number designated by the common carrier to a single shipment - used in all cases where the shipment must be referred. Usually assigned at once.
Pro number
Kiosk
Overhead
Non-performance
34. Light morning meal consisting of pastries - juices - and hot beverages. Usually served buffet style.
Straight-row seating
Continental breakfast
Sponsorship
Media relations
35. A pre-cut - etched pattern fabricated from metal or glass that fits in the focal plane of a lighting instrument to form projected light into a shape (logo - graphic or even scenery). Templates can form light images on ceilings and walls. The pattern
PCMA Space Verification Program
Association of Destination Management Executives (ADME)
Gobo
Wireless microphone
36. 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
APEX
Lead retrieval
Link
Union
37. Mandatory continuning education requirements for legal professionals are adminstered by the American Bar Association (ABA).
Confrontation
Mandatory Continuing Legal Education (MCLE)
Certificate of insurance
Set-up
38. Familiarization Trip. Offered to potential buyers of a venue - a program designed to acquaint participants with specific destinations or services and to stimulate the booking of an event. Often offered in groups - but sometimes on an individual basis
Media relations
Gobo
Familiarization (fam) trip
Cancellation Clause
39. Raised horizontal surface - stage - or flooring.
Modified American Plan
DSL
Platform
Podcast
40. 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
APEX Post Event Report (PER)
Break-even point
Group ware
Point-to-multipoint videoconference
41. Continuning education requirements for legal professionals are adminstered by the American Bar Association (ABA).
Gratuity
Continuing Legal Education (CLE)
Fixed costs
Videoconferencing
42. Actual number of meals served at a catered meal function or in a restaurant. See AUDIENCE COUNT.
Category cable
Smart card
Covers
Shopping cart
43. The day-to-day cost of doing business that is pre-committed - such as salaries - insurance - lease expenses - utilities - etc.
Point-to-multipoint videoconference
Confrontation
Fixed costs
Hospitality suite
44. 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
Value-added tax (VAT)
Common carrier
Destination Marketing Association International
Manifest
45. Process of translating one language into another while the speaker is speaking.
Provision
Yield management
Distributed speaker system
Simultaneous translation
46. Preferred term for the specific person responsible for all aspects of planning - promoting - and producing an exhibition. Also Called SHOW MANAGER - SHOW ORGANIZER.
Return on investment ROI
Exhibition manager
B2B
Contingency plan
47. This beverage service includes both cash-bar and open-bar concepts. Guests are issued a certain number of tickets for free drinks and are then required to purchase additional drinks if desired.
Incremental budgeting
Application sharing
Combination bar
On-demand
48. Permits the customs broker to complete the customs document upon the return of your shipment to the country of origin. A Power of Attorney allows one person to act as agent for another. A Limited Power of Attorney grants the right to act in only limi
Continental breakfast
Stakeholder
Certification
Limited power of attorney
49. An interchange between an inner circle debating an issue and an outer circle of observers. Individuals occasionally move from one circle to the other.
Casual attire
Cut-off date
Fishbowl
Incentive travel company
50. Program and process by which a participant completes proscribed training and passes an assessment.
Certification
Acceptance
Buffet
Exhibitor-appointed contractor (EAC)