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CMP: Certified Meeting Professional
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1. 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.
Good faith
Straight-row seating
Space assignment
Rear projection
2. An individual who guides discussion and/or decision making.
Chat room
Advance registration
Value-added tax (VAT)
Facilitator
3. Truckload rates apply where the tariff shows a truckload minimum weight. Charges will be at the truckload minimum weight unless weight is higher.
CYC
Quick set
American Society of Composers - Authors and Publishers (ASCAP)
Truckload
4. 1) Registering in advance to attend an event. See ADVANCE REGISTRATION. 2) At a facility - pre-assigned sleeping rooms available for occupancy.
Liability
Pre-registration
Rider
Material handling
5. An organization who locates and books speakers according to my specifications and budget.
Market segments
Union
Speakers bureau
Fixed costs
6. Program and process by which a participant completes proscribed training and passes an assessment.
Shopping cart
Webcast
Exclusive
Certification
7. A food service operation in which customers carry their own trays and select food from a display counter or counters. It is similar to a buffet - but food is served by attendants.
Cafeteria service
Streaming
Mixer
Front projection
8. 1) Common term for sealed beam spot or flood lamp with self-contained lens surfaced glass. 2) In golf - one less than bogey.
Gratuity
Complimentary room
PAR
Minimum labor call
9. Required for shipments valued at more than $2500; used by the U.S. government to monitor the dollar volume of export shipments.
Export declaration
Exhibit house
Variable costs
Budget
10. 1) Process of moving equipment and/or people from one point to another. 2) Transportation between terminals and hotels. 3) To copy a picture or sound that is transmitted by one recorder to another - or to make a tape copy from film.
Transfer
Desktop videoconferenceing (DVC)
Continuing education
Customs
11. 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.
Value-added tax (VAT)
Waiver of subrogation
Productivity ticket
Post-event report PER
12. A bill of lading issued by the airline that covers both domestic and international flights transporting goods to a specified destination. Technically - it is a non-negotiable instrument of air transport that serves as a receipt for the shipper - indi
Air waybill
Destination management company (DMC)
Net worth
Linear booth
13. 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
Russian banquet service
Group specifications guide
B2B
Complimentary room
14. 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.
Download
Cancellation or Interruption Insurance
Schoolroom set-up
American Plan (Full American Plan)
15. Solicitation of opinions regarding services; questionnaire.
Category cable
Act of God
Survey
Peninsula booth
16. Marketing tools or programs used to influence buying patterns and build customer loyalty.
Inducements
Marshalling yard
Outsourcing
Message board
17. A holding area where trucks or buses check in and wait for instructions before delivering or picking up freight or passengers.
Marshalling yard
Covers
Exhibitor service manual
Rear projection
18. Wooden platform used to carry goods. See SKID.
Clause
Continuing Education Unit (CEU)
Direct billing
Pallet
19. A detailed list of the individual line items that make up the revenue and expense categories in a budget. A numbering system used to identify every line item in a budget - so income and expenses are posted to the correct accounts.
Chart of accounts
Commerical invoice
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
Direct billing
20. Large theatrical floodlight usually used for work lights or occasionally in place of strip lights to light a cyclorama or sky drop.
U-shape set-up
Fixed costs
Survey
Scoop
21. A company that presents special effects and theatrical acts. This type of company may contract to put on an entire event or only parts of one. They sometimes hire speakers as part of their contract.
Rear projection
Two-tiered set-up
Production company
LED Light Emitting Diode
22. Educational and/or social events planned for spouses and guests of event participants.
Arrival pattern
Mediation
Guest program
Installation and dismantle (I&D)
23. The rooms that are contracted for by an event organizer with a hotel(s) or housing facility(s) for a particular event.
Event-contracted block (ECB)
Jurisdiction
CYC
CODEC
24. An independent business which handles export shipments for compensation. At the request of the shipper - the forwarder makes the actual arrangements and provides the necessary services for expediting the shipment to its overseas destination. The forw
DSL
Freight forwarder
International event
Objective
25. Part of a cancellation clause that outlines the amount of damages to be paid to the noncelling party in the event of a cancellation.
Social host
Integrated marketing
Liquidated damage clause
Computer data projection
26. Names and contact information of potential customers. Attendee lists are often provided as sales leads to exhibitors as an incentive to participate in an exhibition.
Priority point system
Flying
Sales lead
National Speakers Association (NSA)
27. Computer program that uses variable pricing models to maximize the return on a fixed (perishable) inventory - such as hotel rooms - based on supply-and-demand theory.
French cart service
Pipe & drape
Yield management
Booth
28. Digital subscriber line. Brings high bandwidth via copper phone lines.
Event-contracted block (ECB)
DSL
Hand carry
Cost center
29. Association of Destination Management Executives. A member of the Convention Industry Council.
Association of Destination Management Executives (ADME)
Style
Mailing list
Facilitator
30. Accredited designation offered by the National Speakers Association. This designation is earned for extensive - documented speaking experience and client satisfaction.
American Plan (Full American Plan)
Certified Speaking Professional (CSP)
Download
Cash bar
31. Series of tables set up in the shape of the block T with chairs set all around except at the head table.
Dram shop laws
Fixed costs
Slide
T-shape set-up
32. Compression/Decompression or Coder/Decoder. Videoconferencing standard - included in hardware and/or software - used to compress or code video - audio - and data signals for transmission and decompress or decode the signal at the other end of the tra
Event-contracted block (ECB)
Mitigation
Suitcasing
CODEC
33. The inducement to a contract. The cause - motive - price - or impelling influence which induces a contracting party to enter a contract.
Customs broker
Shuttle service
Consideration
Exclusive
34. 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.
Production company
Exhibitor service manual
Exclusive
Gobo
35. Shipment number designated by the common carrier to a single shipment - used in all cases where the shipment must be referred. Usually assigned at once.
Promotion
T-1 line
Pro number
Set top box solutions (STBS)
36. Raised horizontal surface - stage - or flooring.
Application sharing
Variable costs
Platform
Green event
37. A speaker system that is typically used in ballrooms - exhibit hall venues - etc - and are most appropriate for voice reproduction.
Modified American Plan MAP
Distributed speaker system
Room-based videoconferencing
Confrontation
38. Complimentary tickets awarded by the official airline after the event according to the number of attendees who used the airline.
Decorator
Fiber-optic cable
Exhibit house
Productivity ticket
39. Downloadable audio and video programs playable on MP3 players. This type of application may change the face of event marketing.
Podcast
Feedback
Clause
Credit card badge
40. 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.
APEX Post Event Report (PER)
Focus group
Market segments
Style
41. Sports shirt (possibly with jacket) for men; resort wear for women.
General liability insurance
Casual attire
Post-con
Material handling (formerly drayage)
42. 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
Fiber-optic cable
Seminar
Online registration
Accommodation
43. 1) The governmental authorities designated to collect duties levied by a country on imports and exports. The term also applies to the procedures involved in such collection. 2) Practices common to many of a particular group.
Indirect costs
Colloquium
Customs
Target date
44. Two or more computers or peripherals that are linked together for the purpose of sharing data.
Network
Convention services manager (CSM)
Exhibition service contractor
Confirmation number
45. 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
Chart of accounts
Marketing
Exhibitor Advisory Committee
Continuing Education Unit (CEU)
46. Automated External Defibrillator. Device installed in many large public areas (e.g. airports - hotels - convention centers). Can be used by any individual to administer life-saving care to person experiencing a heart attack.
Income statement
Automated external defibrillator (AED)
CODEC
Audiovisual A/V
47. Service for meeting and greeting a person upon arrival in a city - usually at the airport - pier or rail station and assisting him or her with entrance formalities - collecting baggage and obtaining transportation.
Webcast
Meet and greet
Complimentary room
Distance learning
48. Staff person responsible for selling and servicing group and local food and beverage functions.
Catering manager
Computer assisted drawing (CAD)
Carnet
Indirect costs
49. A system in which revenue and expenses are counted as they are actually received.
Continuing Medical Education (CME)
Cash accounting
Function set-up order
Rooming list
50. Number of facility guest rooms actually used out of a room block.
Authorized signatory
Pick-up
Fishbowl
Balance sheet