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CMP: Certified Meeting Professional
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1. 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.
Cancellation Clause
Copy editor
Release date
Commission
2. 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
Accommodation
Combination bar
American Society of Composers - Authors and Publishers (ASCAP)
3. Risk that an organization takes when dealing with foreign currency due to exchange rates fluctuating over time.
Attrition clause
Foreign exchange currency risk
Acceptance
Certified Meeting Professional (CMP)
4. In which rows of tables with chairs face the front of a room and each person has a space for writing.
Lectern microphone
Schoolroom set-up
Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
Caterer
5. 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.
Peninsula booth
Uplink
Dais
Banquet event order (BEO)
6. Procurement - maintenance and transportation of materials. Involves all related functions and services.
Value-added tax (VAT)
Incremental budgeting
Fresnel
Logistics
7. 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.
Chat room
Acceptance
On consumption
Symposium
8. Written document requiring individuals to disclose any conflicts of interest that may be created by their involvement with an organization.
Conflict of interest statement
Network
Network
Lifelong learning
9. A cable that is made up of tiny glass strands that are wrapped and bundled together to make up a cable. Fiber can transmit voice - data and video at gigabyte speed - or 1 billion bytes per second - with less signal loss than copper wire because the s
Booth
Fiber-optic cable
LCD projector
Shoulder season
10. Actual number of meals served at a catered meal function or in a restaurant. See AUDIENCE COUNT.
Event-contracted block (ECB)
Covers
Cluster
Document sharing
11. An organization who locates and books speakers according to my specifications and budget.
PCMA Space Verification Program
Broadband
Certificate of insurance
Speakers bureau
12. Number of facility guest rooms actually used out of a room block.
Pick-up
Travel agency
ISDN
Internatinoal Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET)
13. 1) Lecture and dialogue allowing participants to share experiences in a particular field under the guidance of an expert discussion leader. 2) A meeting or series of meetings of from 10 to 50 specialists who have different specific skills but have a
Computer assisted drawing (CAD)
Zone fare
Seminar
Workshop
14. Educational and/or social events planned for spouses and guests of event participants.
Guest program
Desktop videoconferenceing (DVC)
Cash flow
Association of Destination Management Executives (ADME)
15. 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
Buzz session
Exclusive
Backbone
CODEC
16. 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
Theater set-up
Event specifications guide (ESG)
Covers
Certified Special Event Professional (CSEP)
17. 1) Regeneration of sound from audio speakers back through a microphone causing a squealing sound. 2) Response about an activity - policy - or idea.
Continuing Legal Education (CLE)
Broadband
Feedback
Official carrier
18. 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.
Common carrier
Liability
High season
Simultaneous translation
19. A collection of publicity items that includes: 1) pertinent data on the meeting - such as agenda - historical data - guest speakers - special events - etc. The property - such as photos - descriptions of public space areas - local entertainment - etc
Press kit
ISDN
Continental breakfast
Material handling
20. When a company tries to sell its product or service on the show floor without the permission or consent of the event's management.
Outboarding
Island booth
Barrier-free
Suitcasing
21. A supplier of a specific event service - such as photography - rental of furniture or audiovisual equipment - or floral decoration.
Clause
Concession
Chart of accounts
Specialty contractor
22. Linear exhibits are generally 10' deep. They are offered in 10' or 15' widths and can be combined to create an exhibit of almost any length.
Line array
Linear booth
CODEC
Multi-point bridge
23. A solid-state diode rectifier whose atomic properties cause it to emit light when electric current is passed through it. Current LED technology allows the emission of light from infrared through green frequencies - and visible light LEDs are availabl
Opt-in
lanning committee
LED Light Emitting Diode
NCR form
24. Audio unit by which sound signals from all sources feed into one system; allows for dissimilar inputs (microphone and line) to be combined and controlled into one output.
Export declaration
Automated external defibrillator (AED)
On-demand
Mixer
25. An encrypted file that authenticates the source of financial data - usually for an online credit card transaction.
Secure digital certificate
Lecture
Target date
Lectern microphone
26. Detailed section of a contract.
Conference center
Meet and greet
ISDN
Provision
27. 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
Line array
Hardwall
Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
Publicity
28. The inducement to a contract. The cause - motive - price - or impelling influence which induces a contracting party to enter a contract.
Contract
Consideration
Breakout session
Complimentary
29. The person hired to review the content of advertising or marketing materials for consistency - accuracy - and to elminate repititious information.
Barrier-free
Trade-out
Downlink
Copy editor
30. American Society of Composers - Authors - and Publishers. A membership organization that represents individuals who hold the copyrights to music written in the United States and grants licensing agreements for the performance of that music.
Contingency plan
Convention center
American Society of Composers - Authors and Publishers (ASCAP)
Association of Destination Management Executives (ADME)
31. Comp. Service - space or item provided at no charge.
Rear projection
On-demand
Group specifications guide
Complimentary
32. A list - whether printed or electronic - by which an event organizer and/or their designates (e.g. a housing bureau) delivers multiple reservations to a hotel or other housing facility. Often the information contained in a rooming list is originally
Exhibitor prospectus
Rooming list
Liability
General liability insurance
33. 1) The process of attaching the cable on a crane to a piece of machinery or equipment. 2) The process for hanging materials or signs.
Income statement
Alternative dispute resolution (ADR)
Rigging
Non-performance
34. A sleeping room or function room provided to an individual or organization at no cost. See COMPLIMENTARY RATIO.
Modified American Plan
Podcast
Complimentary room
Force majeure
35. A record of transactions during an event where the resulting balance is paid directly by the group. May include room - tax - incidentals - food and beverage - audiovisual equipment - decor - etc. Also Called MASTER BILL.
Jurisdiction
History
Master account
Slide
36. Complimentary tickets awarded by the official airline after the event according to the number of attendees who used the airline.
Fixed costs
Productivity ticket
B2B
Official carrier
37. 1) Platforms of varying heights used together to create a stage - such as the rows of steps a choral group would use during a performance. 2) Stage background scene giving illusion or depth. Also called CYC.
CYC
Charter
Trade show facilitation website
Mandatory Continuing Legal Education (MCLE)
38. A third party vendor or company that offers complete turnkey organization support for an event - including administrative and event management services.
Workshop
Shoulder season
Force majeure
Multidisciplinary
39. A popular digital format for meeetings with a good quality image - an extended recording time up to 184 minutes - with a tape stock that is less expensive than BetaSP.
Exclusive contractor
DVCam
Space assignment
Cost center
40. Notice as to how charges for an event should be handled and to whom invoices should be addressed.
Request for proposal (RFP)
Post-event meeting
General service contractor GSC
Billing instructions
41. The type of platform that multi-purpose technology solutions designed to handle many event planning and management tasks are built on. They range in price from a few hundred dollars for a basic single-user program to hundreds of thousands of dollars
Audiovisual A/V
Marketing
Relational databases
Certified Meeting Professional (CMP)
42. 1) Publicizing an event. See PUBLICITY. 2) An advancement in rank or position.
Demonstration
Promotion
Gratuity
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
43. 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
Arbitration
Special event professional
Convention and visitors bureau (CVB)
Broadband
44. Professional Congress Organizer. European term for DMC (Destination Management Company). Local supplier who can arrange - manage and/or plan any function or service an event.
Professional
Certified Special Event Professional (CSEP)
Provision
Professional congress organizer (PCO)
45. A tax that is added to a product at each step of the manufacturing and marketing process reflecting value which has been added to the product by processing.
Exhibitor Advisory Committee
DLP projector
Value-added tax (VAT)
Charter
46. Dispute resolution process in which the parties use a third party to assist them in reaching a compromise. The mediator may work with both sides together - or may act as "go between" in an attempt to move the sides toward agreement. The mediator may
Mediation
Modified American Plan MAP
Business exchange
Document sharing
47. Weblogs or online journals. An application that may change the face of event marketing.
Act of God
Conflict of interest statement
Blog
Production company
48. 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.
Skid
High season
Music licensing
Lead retrieval
49. Any meeting where people at two or more distant locations are linked using video - audio and data for two-way communication via satellite communications or the Internet. Each party sees and hears the other through a TV screen or computer monitor and
American service
Liability
Offer
Virtual conferencing
50. Video tape recorder and player utilizing ½-inch (1.27 centimeter) tape. Not compatible with beta format.
One-stop shop
VHS Video Home System
Straight time
Inducements