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CMP: Certified Meeting Professional
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1. Building an event budget on estimates of potential income and likely expenses because there is no financial history from prior events available to use.
Contract
Symposium
Logistics
Zero-based budgeting
2. Raising and supporting sound - lighting or other equipment or décor from the ceiling.
E-conferencing
Flying
Dais
Request for proposal (RFP)
3. An encrypted file that authenticates the source of financial data - usually for an online credit card transaction.
Secure digital certificate
Floor plan
Focus group
Exhibitor Advisory Committee
4. Portable MICROPHONE operating on its own power source. Often used to pass through an audience for questions or comments. Also Called WIRELESS MICROPHONE.
Chat room
Wireless microphone
Webcast
Russian restaurant service
5. AKA Group Specification Guide or Resume. Spec Guide. The industry preferred term for a comprehensive document that outlines the complete requirements and instructions for an event. This document is typically authored by the event planner and is share
Customs broker
Rear projection
Colloquium
Event specifications guide (ESG)
6. The station which receives data transmissions from a communications satellite.
Convention center
Downlink
Cafeteria service
Online registration
7. 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.
Audit
LCD projector
Cash accounting
Virtual conferencing
8. Process of translating one language into another while the speaker is speaking.
Confirmation number
High season
Simultaneous translation
Symposium
9. Light morning meal consisting of pastries - juices - and hot beverages. Usually served buffet style.
APEX
T-1 line
Schoolroom set-up
Continental breakfast
10. Amount of money paid to secure a room - facility or service in advance.
Advance deposit
Gratuity
ISDN
Promotion
11. 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.
Strategic plan
Arbitration
Platform
Slide
12. A stand upon which a speaker may rest notes or books. May be "standing -" which rests on the floor - or "table-top" which is placed on a table. Often confused with PODIUM.
Mitigation
Lecture
Lectern
Ultraviolet lighting
13. Downloadable audio and video programs playable on MP3 players. This type of application may change the face of event marketing.
Set top box solutions (STBS)
Covers
Accreditation
Podcast
14. An additional clause in artist's contract stipulating special requirements such as travel - dressing rooms - technical equipment - etc.
Liquidated damage clause
Rider
V-shape set-up
Marketing collateral
15. Time worked by an employee outside of - or in addition to - regular working time or beyond the standard forty-hour workweek.
Overtime
Exhibitor prospectus
Teleconferencing
Advance deposit
16. Truckload rates apply where the tariff shows a truckload minimum weight. Charges will be at the truckload minimum weight unless weight is higher.
Truckload
Buffet
High season
Marketing plan
17. 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
Booth
Overtime
Equalizer
18. 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
Continuing Medical Education (CME)
In conjunction with (ICW)
National Speakers Association (NSA)
Line array
19. 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.
Style
Exhibition manager
Exhibitor prospectus
Audience polling
20. Transmitting data at speeds of up to 44.184 Mbps - is faster than a T-1 line - allowing performance of more tasks simultaneously at a greater speed. See T-1 LINE.
Accrual accounting
T-3 line
Charter
Style
21. Devices that help people who are hard of hearing connect to the speaker system and use their hearing aids to hear the speaker more clearly.
Hand carry
Packing list
Assisted listening devices (ALD)
French banquet service
22. A videoconference of more than two sites.
Liability
Sponsorship
Point-to-multipoint videoconference
Overhead
23. AKA CSEP or Certified Special Event Professional - a designation offered by the International Special Events Society (ISES) earned through education - perofrmance - experience - and service to the industry.
Special event professional
Billing instructions
Pipe & drape
Lectern microphone
24. Program and process by which a participant completes proscribed training and passes an assessment.
Certification
Multi-management firm
Credit card badge
Relational databases
25. A type of audio system for meetings and concerts. The speakers sit on the floor and project from each side of the room. The sound may be louder in the front than the back.
Trade show facilitation website
Shuttle service
Stacked speaker system
Mitigation
26. Generally refers to air-freight and van line shipments. Invoices are calculated with two weights - actual and dimensional. The dimensional weight is based upon the volume of the shipment. The billing weight is the larger of the two.
Income statement
Dimensional weight
Low season
Caterer
27. The point at which revenues are equal to expenses.
Association of Destination Management Executives (ADME)
Category cable
Break-even point
Flying
28. An extraordinary natural event such as extreme weather - flood - hurricanes - tornadoes - earthquake or similar natural disaster that cannot be reasonably foreseen or prevented over which a contracting party has no reasonable control - making perform
Pre-set
B2B
Act of God
Customs
29. Guest holding confirmed sleeping room reservation is denied accommodations at the hotel where to reservation is held upon their arrival and is relocated to another hotel.
Cash bar
Walk
Export license
Intelligent lighting
30. 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
Gobo
Copy editor
Quick set
Confrontation
31. Detailed section of a contract.
Production company
Overhead
Advance deposit
Provision
32. Expenses that vary based upon various factors - such as the number of attendees .
Equalizer
CYC
Schedule of services
Variable costs
33. Recognizing the possibility of injury - damage or loss - and having a means to prevent it or provide insurance.
Risk management
Acceptance
Contract
Exhibitor Advisory Committee
34. 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
Seminar
Special event professional
Pad-wrapped
Destination Marketing Association International
35. 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.
Attrition clause
Automated external defibrillator (AED)
Carnet
Lecture
36. AKA Brainstorming. Group decision-making software and services use technology on-site to maximize the group decision and brainstorming process. Often the set-up involves a network of computers that event participants use to respond to questions - pll
Group ware
Secure digital certificate
Pad-wrapped
Caterer
37. 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
Download
Cancellation clause
Distance learning
Marshalling yard
38. AP. A type of hotel rate that includes the price of the room and all meals. Also Called FULL AMERICAN PLAN (FAP).
Blog
American Plan (Full American Plan)
Media relations
Release date
39. 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
Hardwall
Liquidated damage clause
Sales lead
Limited power of attorney
40. 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.
Combination bar
Video projection
Publicity
Direct billing
41. Other names for event order (EO) - function sheet - or Banquet Event Order (BEO)
Speakers bureau
Exclusive
Function set-up order
Ultraviolet lighting
42. Equipment which projects an image on a screen by passing light through a transparent slide or other transparency.
Mailing list
Overhead
Slide
Desktop videoconferenceing (DVC)
43. Any agreement which limits who may provide specific products or services under certain conditions to only one party. A general service contractor - for instance - may have an "exclusive" in a particular facility - meaning that no other contractor is
Exclusive
Flate rate
Audience polling
2-D bar code
44. List of names and addresses of the persons to whom publicity material or other information is to be sent.
Mailing list
Less than truckload
Speakers bureau
Mitigation
45. In the United States - a legal term for laws covering the liability of people serving alcoholic beverages. Under dram shop laws - a party injured by an intoxicated person can sue establishments contributing to that person's intoxication. Many dram sh
Dram shop laws
Mitigation
Cancellation or Interruption Insurance
Virtual conferencing
46. A list showing the number and kinds of items being shipped - as well as other information needed for transportation purposes.
Colloquium
DLP projector
Event specifications guide (ESG)
Packing list
47. 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.
Exhibitor-appointed contractor (EAC)
Fixed costs
Post event report
V-shape set-up
48. Computer application that enables voting and then collects and displays the results - simplifying decision-making among event participants.
Relational databases
Audience polling
Jurisdiction
Contract
49. 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
Exhibitor-appointed contractor (EAC)
Audiovisual A/V
General service contractor GSC
Computer data projection
50. Record of an event over time.
Point-to-multipoint videoconference
B2B
History
Press conference