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CMP: Certified Meeting Professional
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1. Net Profit divided by Net Worth. A financial ratio indicating the degree of profitability. To calculate - use event revenues minus program expenses divided by program expenses - multiplied by 100 to get the ROI %.
Site inspection
Confrontation
Speakers bureau
Return on investment ROI
2. 1) The act of showing how to do something. 2) A group of individuals organized to picket or protest against a group using placards - literature - songs - shouts and - sometimes - marches or sit-ins.
Chart of accounts
French banquet service
Demonstration
Workshop
3. Process of translating one language into another while the speaker is speaking.
Simultaneous translation
Category cable
In conjunction with (ICW)
Modified American Plan MAP
4. Meeting Industry Network (formerly CINET or Convention Industry Network). On-line information network tracking historical and future site/booking information. CINET is provided by IACVB to its members.
Sub-block
Foreign exchange currency risk
American service
Meeting Information Network (MINT)
5. Certified Professional Catering Executive. A certification program offered by the National Association of Catering Executives (NACE).
Island booth
Certified Professional Catering Executive (CPCE)
Workshop
Post-con
6. A self-contained unit with a LCD (liquid crystal display) panel - light source and lens that works with both PC and Mac computers and duplicates the image being shown on the monitor without any need for special software or complex setting up.
Stakeholder
Chat room
LCD projector
Arrival pattern
7. 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
LED Light Emitting Diode
Line array
Transfer
Fiber-optic cable
8. Registration made via the Web.
French banquet service
Shoulder season
Online registration
Reservation review date
9. The rooms that are contracted for by an event organizer with a hotel(s) or housing facility(s) for a particular event.
Virtual conferencing
Pro number
Schedule of services
Event-contracted block (ECB)
10. Informative and instructional speech.
Yield management
Cash accounting
Combination bar
Lecture
11. 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.
lanning committee
Paid-out
Continuing education
Stand
12. Transportation company which handles crated materials; an agency or business that is available to the public for transportation of persons - goods - or messages; usually referring to freight transportation on regularly scheduled trucks or airplanes.
Style
Accrual accounting
Common carrier
Overhead
13. Program and process by which a participant completes proscribed training and passes an assessment.
Certification
Social host
Press release
International event
14. Organizations offering this type of continuing education credits are accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME).
Press conference
Continental breakfast
Cluster
Continuing Medical Education (CME)
15. 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.
Truckload
Authorized signatory
Offer
Cancellation or Interruption Insurance
16. Equipment - materials - and teaching aids used in sound and visual presentations - such as television monitors - video - sound equipment - etc.
Outsourcing
Seminar
Audiovisual A/V
Zero-based budgeting
17. Raised platform usually above the floor of a hall or large room.
Videoconferencing
Cut-off date
Dais
Straight time
18. An event that requires the use of a convention center or event complex - as well as multiple hotels in the host city.
Booking agent
Provision
PCMA Space Verification Program
Citywide event
19. Risk that an organization takes when dealing with foreign currency due to exchange rates fluctuating over time.
Foreign exchange currency risk
APEX
Hand carry
Relational databases
20. 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
Music licensing
VHS Video Home System
APEX Post Event Report (PER)
Familiarization (fam) trip
21. Absence of obstacles preventing handicapped persons from moving freely to all public areas within a building.
Post-event meeting
Export declaration
Barrier-free
Cut-off date
22. Equipment which projects an image on a screen by passing light through a transparent slide or other transparency.
Lectern microphone
Secure digital certificate
Overhead
Exclusive contractor
23. Manual or kit - usually developed by the service contractor for an event - containing general event information - labor/service order forms - rules and regulations and other information pertinent to an exhibitor's participation in an exhibition.
Exhibitor service manual
Ultraviolet lighting
Marshalling yard
Packing list
24. A feature of videoconferencing systems which allows the placement of shared documents on an on-screen shared space or "whiteboard." Participants can edit and mark up the document just as on a physical whiteboard.
Risk management
Whiteboarding
Straight time
Attrition clause
25. 1) Common term for sealed beam spot or flood lamp with self-contained lens surfaced glass. 2) In golf - one less than bogey.
PAR
Theater set-up
In-house contractor
Cancellation or Interruption Insurance
26. An organization who locates and books speakers according to my specifications and budget.
Speakers bureau
Protocol
Equalizer
Foreign exchange currency risk
27. Total number of sleeping rooms that are utilized and attributable to one event.
Convention and visitors bureau (CVB)
Room block
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
DLP projector
28. An alternative procedure that can be specified in contracts instead of going through the process of filing a complaint and pursuing the claim in court.
Alternative dispute resolution (ADR)
Audit
Intelligent lighting
Webconferencing
29. A type of education where students work on their own at home or from an office - and communicate with faculty and other students via email - electronic forums - chat - webconferencing and other forms of online communication. Includes correspondence c
Official carrier
Distance learning
Demonstration
Uplink
30. Building an event budet by analyzing both the projected and actual figures from the previous year's budget.
Incremental budgeting
Net worth
Complimentary room
Computer assisted drawing (CAD)
31. Sequential numbering as part of a total number of pieces indicated on each package - carton - or crate. For example - box number 2 of 12.
Zone fare
Lot labeling
Barrier-free
VHS Video Home System
32. 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.
Production company
Conference reminder
Sampling
Site inspection
33. 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.
Online registration
Logistics
Exhibitor Advisory Committee
DVCam
34. Raising and supporting sound - lighting or other equipment or décor from the ceiling.
Flying
APEX RFP
Convention center
Riser
35. Capture - manipulation and storage of video in digital format on a computer. Can be displayed on a computer as part of a graphic presentation.
Line level
Digital video
Zero-based budgeting
Webconferencing
36. 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.
Citywide event
Advance deposit
Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME)
Publicity
37. Final official listing of all passengers and/or cargo aboard a transportation vehicle or vessel.
Publicity
Manifest
Packing list
Barrier-free
38. BEO. A form most often used by hotels to provide details to personnel concerned with a specific food and beverage function or event room set-up.
Hundredweight (CWT)
Banquet event order (BEO)
Protocol
Specialty contractor
39. Period when the demand for a supplier's product or service is highest. Prices general increase in high season.
Suitcasing
High season
Minimum labor call
Press release
40. Web browser-based videoconferencing.
Leko
Webconferencing
Link
Complimentary room
41. 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.
Schoolroom set-up
Broadcast Music - Inc. (BMI)
Lectern
Yield management
42. A videoconference of more than two sites.
Point-to-multipoint videoconference
Offer
Pipe & drape
Material handling
43. Procurement - maintenance and transportation of materials. Involves all related functions and services.
Logistics
Advance registration
Break-even point
Continental breakfast
44. Hiring an outside firm or individual to perform the task instead of using in-house staff; to subcontract a task or responsibility to a third party.
Rebates
Cash flow
Omnidirectional microphone
Outsourcing
45. A third party vendor or company that offers complete turnkey organization support for an event - including administrative and event management services.
Good faith
Multidisciplinary
Application service provider (ASP)
Program design
46. Items that an exhibitor is allowed to carry unaided into a event facility without being charged.
Cancellation clause
Hand carry
Ground support
Incremental budgeting
47. Required for shipments valued at more than $2500; used by the U.S. government to monitor the dollar volume of export shipments.
Integrated marketing
Front projection
American Society of Composers - Authors and Publishers (ASCAP)
Export declaration
48. A lead retrieval method using embossed plastic cards similar to credit cards.
Professional congress organizer (PCO)
Real-time
Credit card badge
Riser
49. In-house facility form authorizing cash withdrawal to be charged to master account or individual guest.
Shopping cart
Paid-out
Workshop
Cancellation Clause
50. 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.
Inducements
Official carrier
Slide
Customs broker