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CMP: Certified Meeting Professional
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1. An ongoing process in which an individual actively seeks to understand and contribute to change.
Continuing Legal Education (CLE)
Liquidated damage clause
Lifelong learning
Cancellation Clause
2. 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
Truckload
U-shape set-up
Audiovisual A/V
3. A type of room rate that includes breakfast and one other meal (usually dinner).
Modified American Plan MAP
Sales lead
Cut-off date
Slide
4. An additional clause in artist's contract stipulating special requirements such as travel - dressing rooms - technical equipment - etc.
History
Decorator
Rider
Smart form
5. A plastic credit card with an embedded integrated circuit chip that can store up to 16 -000 bits of data for lead retrieval and other functions.
Shopping cart
Smart card
Hospitality suite
Overhead
6. 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.
Lead retrieval
APEX
Objective
Telecommunications devices for the deaf (TDD)
7. 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.
On consumption
High season
Advance deposit
Banquet event order (BEO)
8. 1) Customs and regulations dealing with diplomatic formality - precedence - and etiquette. 2) A formal description of message formats and the rules two computers must follow to exchange messages.
Truckload
Protocol
Balance sheet
Paid-out
9. 1) Ability of a projection system to distinguish and reproduce fine detail. 2) Motion put forward for a joint decision; usually has the force of a legislative decision.
Multi-management firm
Leko
Lavaliere microphone
Resolution
10. Device used to compensate for undesired sound system characteristics or room acoustics.
Truckload
Pre-event meeting
Copy editor
Equalizer
11. 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.
Convention services manager (CSM)
Trade show facilitation website
Booth
Attrition clause
12. The station used to transmit signals from Earth to a satellite (videoconferencing).
Commission
Automated external defibrillator (AED)
Marketing
Uplink
13. The style of a document refers to choices writers make that create the tone to readers. A writing style could be either formal or informal.
Audience reaction team
Application sharing
LCD projector
Style
14. 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
Exhibition manager
Limited power of attorney
Podcast
Russian restaurant service
15. Process of translating one language into another while the speaker is speaking.
Pay-per-view
Fresnel
Shoulder season
Simultaneous translation
16. A type of barter. The exchange of goods and services instead of using money.
Trade-out
Style sheet
Radio frequency identification (RFID)
APEX Post Event Report (PER)
17. A writtten plan that's purpose is to define the market for an event - outline a strategy for attracting and keeping participants - and prepare to adapt to changes in the market. This working document guides decisions about how - when - and where to e
Authorized signatory
Projector
Marketing plan
Certified Professional Catering Executive (CPCE)
18. Notice as to how charges for an event should be handled and to whom invoices should be addressed.
Convention center
Billing instructions
Contract
American Bar Association (ABA)
19. A type of digital telecommunication line that provides high speed internet access for mulitple users.
Dais
ISDN
Certification
Lot labeling
20. Raised platform.
PCMA Space Verification Program
Riser
One-stop shop
Conference reminder
21. An account (usually a number) to which expenses for a function or activity are charged.
Exhibition service contractor
APEX RFP
Cost center
Copy editor
22. 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.
Convention center
Link
CODEC
lanning committee
23. Private dispute resolution process - Often referred to as alternate dispute resolution - in which the parties agree to submit their dispute to an impartial third party for a decision. Depending on the type of arbitration - the arbitrator's decision m
Arbitration
Rider
Certification
Pay-per-view
24. 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.
Meeting Information Network (MINT)
Attrition clause
Market segments
Destination management company (DMC)
25. 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
Convention and visitors bureau (CVB)
Credit card badge
DVCam
Customs broker
26. A type of indemnity clause that requires one party to fully protect the other from a claim asserted. This would include the payment of costs or attorney fees.
Contract
Hold harmless
Risk management
Certified Special Event Professional (CSEP)
27. MAP. A type of room rate that includes breakfast and one other meal (usually dinner).
T-3 line
General liability insurance
Modified American Plan
Confrontation
28. Event held to communicate information to media representatives.
Conference reminder
Press conference
Unopposed exhibit hours
Minimum labor call
29. A return of part of a payment.
V-shape set-up
Rebates
Quick set
Mandatory Continuing Legal Education (MCLE)
30. 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.
Variable costs
Common carrier
Accreditation
Peninsula booth
31. An email marketing campaign that only sends messages to users who have requested (or opted-in) to receive specific types of information. Email conference reminders and newsletters are examples of opt-in email marketing campaigns based upon permission
Booth
Opt-in
APEX
ISDN
32. 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.
Theater set-up
Focus group
Pre-set
Outsourcing
33. 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
Butler service
Ground support
Exhibition manager
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
34. A third party vendor or company that offers complete turnkey organization support for an event - including administrative and event management services.
Multidisciplinary
Common carrier
Fishbowl
Ground support
35. Items that an exhibitor is allowed to carry unaided into a event facility without being charged.
Hand carry
Pro number
Continuing Education Unit (CEU)
Zone fare
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
Peninsula booth
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
Yield management
Skid
37. A Web-site whose primary function is to provide attendees (buyers) and exhibitors (sellers) with online tools that help facilitate participation in an upcoming event.
Decorator
Trade show facilitation website
French banquet service
Peninsula booth
38. 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.
Event-contracted block (ECB)
Material handling (formerly drayage)
Charter
Professional congress organizer (PCO)
39. Expenses that vary based upon various factors - such as the number of attendees .
Hand carry
Variable costs
Exhibition service contractor
Audit
40. Marketing activities with a common focus on the marketplace or a customer segment. The execution of each individual piece of the integrated marketing plan is consistent with - and supportive of - each of the other pieces of the plan.
Post-con
Secure digital certificate
Leko
Integrated marketing
41. Recognizing the possibility of injury - damage or loss - and having a means to prevent it or provide insurance.
Meeting Information Network (MINT)
Risk management
Multidisciplinary
Kiosk
42. 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.
Interface
Budget
Good faith
Rear projection
43. Magnetic Stripe. A lead retrieval system using a magnetic strip on either the back of a paper badge (similar to some airline tickets) or on plastic badges similar to credit cards.
Customs broker
Automated external defibrillator (AED)
Mediation
Mag-stripe
44. An electronic message center or online discussion group - usually serving a special-interest group. They allow you to review messages left by others - and leave your own message if you choose. Also known as bulletin board systems or electronic forum.
Message board
Shopping cart
Liquidated damage clause
National Speakers Association (NSA)
45. In which rows of tables with chairs face the front of a room and each person has a space for writing.
Schoolroom set-up
Covers
NCR form
Function set-up order
46. When a company tries to sell its product or service on the show floor without the permission or consent of the event's management.
Digital video
Budget
Suitcasing
Peninsula booth
47. Raised platform usually above the floor of a hall or large room.
Dais
Uplink
Butler service
Production company
48. Educational and/or social events planned for spouses and guests of event participants.
Mixer
Continuing Medical Education (CME)
Logistics
Guest program
49. Convention and visitor bureaus are not-for-profit organizations charged with representing a specific destination and helping the long-term development of communities through a travel and tourism strategy. Convention and visitor bureaus are usually me
Convention and visitors bureau (CVB)
Decorator
Exhibitor-appointed contractor (EAC)
Complimentary room
50. AKA Housing Bureau. Organization that provides reservation services for a group and its attendees.
Jurisdiction
Attrition clause
Housing company
ite inspection