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CMP: Certified Meeting Professional
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1. Accounts receivable made available to individuals or firms with established credit.
Tone
Direct billing
Destination Marketing Association International
Opt-in
2. 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 %.
Computer assisted drawing (CAD)
Return on investment ROI
Barrier-free
Application sharing
3. A sleeping room or function room provided to an individual or organization at no cost. See COMPLIMENTARY RATIO.
High season
Certified Meeting Professional (CMP)
General liability insurance
Complimentary room
4. A methodical examination and review of records pertaining to an event. For instance - an independent verification of attendance figures submitted by an exhibition's producers.
Dais
Advance deposit
Audit
Change order
5. 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.
Straight-row seating
Press conference
Link
Certified Meeting Professional (CMP)
6. One of the advantages of a web-based event planning software solution or ASP is that clients already have the necessary tools available: a computer and a web browser. This familiar interface is cross-platforming - meaning that PCs - MACs - and large
Digital video
Post-event report PER
Interface
Computer assisted drawing (CAD)
7. An agreement between two or more parties that creates in each party a duty to do or not do something and a right to performance of the other's duty or a remedy for the breach of the other's duty.
Cost center
Professional
Contract
Foreign exchange currency risk
8. In-person on-site review and evaluation of a venue or location for an event.
Bandwidth
Projector
Site inspection
Gratuity
9. Formalized statement of outcomes to be anticipated as a result of the educational process.
Press conference
Objective
Workshop
Freight forwarder
10. 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.
Line level
Accessibility
Banquet event order (BEO)
General service contractor GSC
11. 1) The back wall (either hardwall or draped) of a perimeter - booth/stand/exhibit - or inline. 2) Panel arrangement at rear of booth/stand area.
Accrual accounting
Low season
Broadcast Music - Inc. (BMI)
Backwall
12. Building an event budet by analyzing both the projected and actual figures from the previous year's budget.
Catering manager
Incremental budgeting
Clause
Destination management company (DMC)
13. 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
Computer data projection
Resolution
Concession
Distance learning
14. Expenses that vary based upon various factors - such as the number of attendees .
Schoolroom set-up
Stacked speaker system
Variable costs
Credit card badge
15. A process of identifying human wants and needs - and developing a plan to meet those wants and needs. Refers to everything involved with convincing an attendee to come to the event. Also refers to providing information to support the exhibit sales fu
American Society of Composers - Authors and Publishers (ASCAP)
Marketing
Force majeure
Modified American Plan MAP
16. Movie - slide - or computer image presentation where the screen is between the viewer and the projector. Often used in terms of a FRONT PROJECTION SCREEN which is translucent to images being projected from the rear and can be viewed from the front.
Rear projection
LED Light Emitting Diode
Association of Destination Management Executives (ADME)
Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME)
17. AKA Post Conference.Any event which is arranged for the period immediately following the conference proper.
Whiteboarding
Good faith
Post-con
Automated external defibrillator (AED)
18. 1) Publicizing an event. See PUBLICITY. 2) An advancement in rank or position.
Lead retrieval
Promotion
Automated external defibrillator (AED)
Multi-point bridge
19. AKA Group Travel Agency. Company specializing in planning and handling group travel.
Facilitator
Travel agency
Outboarding
Pro number
20. 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
Poster session
Walk
Fresnel
In-house contractor
21. Raising and supporting sound - lighting or other equipment or décor from the ceiling.
Flying
Lectern
Customs
Contingency plan
22. 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
General service contractor GSC
Buffet
Dais
Lifelong learning
23. 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
Installation and dismantle (I&D)
Familiarization (fam) trip
Outboarding
Exclusive
24. 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
Open bar (host bar)
Post-event report PER
Platform
25. Abbreviation for "hundred weight." This is the unit of measure used in drayage and freight shipments.
Hundredweight (CWT)
Authorized signatory
LED Light Emitting Diode
Certificate of origin
26. A type of exhibit construction in which the walls are of solid material - rather than fabric.
Hardwall
Internatinoal Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET)
Exclusive
Caterer
27. Booth/stand space with aisles on all four sides.
Rooming list
Island booth
Manifest
Mic level
28. 1) Enclosed lights used to illuminate the top of film and stage sets. 2) Group of speakers mounted in auditoriums - arenas - and theaters.
Sales lead
Facilitator
Cluster
In conjunction with (ICW)
29. AP. A type of hotel rate that includes the price of the room and all meals. Also Called FULL AMERICAN PLAN (FAP).
Marketing collateral
B2B
Distributed speaker system
American Plan (Full American Plan)
30. 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.
Multi-point bridge
Etiquette
Cancellation Clause
Post-event meeting
31. 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.
Full American Plan
Certified Speaking Professional (CSP)
Real-time
Style
32. 1) Airline lift into and out of a destination. 2) Capable of being used by people with physical challenges and disabilities. This is an important aspect of the United States' Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
Arrival pattern
Accessibility
Trade show facilitation website
Commission
33. Contractor appointed by event or building management as the sole agent to provide specific services or products.
Change order
Workshop
Exclusive contractor
APEX
34. Notice as to how charges for an event should be handled and to whom invoices should be addressed.
Resolution
Convention services manager (CSM)
Covers
Billing instructions
35. An interchange between an inner circle debating an issue and an outer circle of observers. Individuals occasionally move from one circle to the other.
Interview
Cost center
Fishbowl
Ultraviolet lighting
36. Supplier of booth/stand equipment - rental furnishings - floor coverings - labor - drayage and signs for exhibitions and trade shows. See GENERAL SERVICE CONTRACTOR.
DLP projector
Official carrier
PAR
Exhibition service contractor
37. EAC. Any company other than the designated "official" contractor providing a service to an exhibitor. Can refer to an Install & Dismantle Company (I&D House) - photographer - florist or any other type of contractor.
Rounded hollow square
Liquidated damage clause
Risk management
Exhibitor-appointed contractor (EAC)
38. Private room bar set up where guests pay for drinks individually.
Pre-set
Gobo
Cash bar
Network
39. 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
Platform
Line array
Association of Destination Management Executives (ADME)
DVCam
40. A statement of revenues and expenses. Also known as a profit & loss statement.
Income statement
Installation and dismantle (I&D)
American Society of Composers - Authors and Publishers (ASCAP)
Audiovisual A/V
41. 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.
Press release
History
DVCam
Official carrier
42. 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
Secure digital certificate
Exhibitor-appointed contractor (EAC)
Protocol
Group ware
43. Ability to transmit huge volumes of voice and video over a network or the internet - without jumpy images.
Material handling
Cash flow
Event profile
Broadband
44. Complimentary tickets awarded by the official airline after the event according to the number of attendees who used the airline.
Packing list
Concession
Continuing Legal Education (CLE)
Productivity ticket
45. A single source provider of goods or services.
Desktop videoconferenceing (DVC)
One-stop shop
Audit
DLP projector
46. Minimum amount for which union labor must be paid.
Online registration
Minimum labor call
Chart of accounts
Multi-point bridge
47. 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.
Lectern
Exhibit house
Booth
Mandatory Continuing Legal Education (MCLE)
48. Part of a cancellation clause that outlines the amount of damages to be paid to the noncelling party in the event of a cancellation.
Liquidated damage clause
Destination management company (DMC)
Style
Mediation
49. CSM. Professional at a hotel - convention center or convention bureau who is responsible for event operations management on all levels.
NCR form
Convention services manager (CSM)
B2B
Streaming
50. 1) Some Web-based content such as event Webcasts are made available to online customers on a pay-per-view basis - which means that customers have to pay to access this programming. 2) Video productions accessible to customers who pay for access to th
Credit card badge
Destination Marketing Association International
Pay-per-view
Reservation review date