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CMP: Certified Meeting Professional
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1. A government document which permits the "licensee" to engage in the export of designated goods to certain destinations.
Export license
Space assignment
Automated external defibrillator (AED)
Exhibitor service manual
2. 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.
Banquet event order (BEO)
Indemnification clause
Conference reminder
DLP projector
3. 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
Interface
Social host
Line array
4. 1) Schematic drawing of an exhibit hall including dimensions - design - shape - entrances - aisles - numbered exhibit booth/stands - lounges - concession areas - restrooms - electrical/plumbing accessibility - etc. 2) Scale plan of the floor area of
Floor plan
Multidisciplinary
Continuing Medical Education (CME)
Contract
5. Risk that an organization takes when dealing with foreign currency due to exchange rates fluctuating over time.
Smart card
Audience reaction team
lanning committee
Foreign exchange currency risk
6. A member of the Convention Industry Council.
Credit card badge
Downlink
National Speakers Association (NSA)
Trade-out
7. 1) Merchandise or refreshments sold on site - to individuals - in conjunction with an event. 2) Contractual agreement where one party provides something of value to the other party in exchange for something else - pending certain conditions.
Citywide event
Island booth
Flate rate
Concession
8. Association of Destination Management Executives. A member of the Convention Industry Council.
Familiarization (fam) trip
Exhibition service contractor
Association of Destination Management Executives (ADME)
Exhibitor service manual
9. Any group of rooms that is classified or separated differently than the general attendee block within the Event-Contracted Block (ECB).
National Speakers Association (NSA)
Schoolroom set-up
Sub-block
Scoop
10. Recognizing the possibility of injury - damage or loss - and having a means to prevent it or provide insurance.
Blog
Risk management
Multi-point bridge
Uplink
11. A needs assessment is an essential setp in ensuring that educational offerings are relevant to attendees. The results of post-event evaluations can be as valuable as a needs assessment.
Function set-up order
Needs assessment
U-shape set-up
PAR
12. The tone of a document refers to the feeling or impression a document conveys. Formal writing style tends to convey an objective tone that is deliberate and factual. The toneo f an informal document typically is relaxed - informative - helpful - casu
Exhibition service contractor
Certificate of insurance
Tone
Manifest
13. An informal meeting for the purpose of discussion; usually of an academic or research nature and in order to ascertain areas of mutual interest through exchange of ideas. Conducted as and when convenient - but with little regularity.
Lifelong learning
Mag-stripe
Colloquium
Foreign exchange currency risk
14. Comp. Service - space or item provided at no charge.
Podcast
Common carrier
Complimentary
Unopposed exhibit hours
15. Series of tables set up in the shape of the letter U with chairs set all around on one or both sides.
Concession
U-shape set-up
Van line
Teleconferencing
16. A true and honest effort to uphold the law. (as in Good Faith Effort)
In-house contractor
Customs broker
Bid
Good faith
17. The transfer of monies into and out of an enterprise.
Catering manager
Mailing list
Simultaneous translation
Cash flow
18. A black light used to make phosphorescent and fluorescent paints glow in the dark.
Seminar
Fishbowl
LCD projector
Ultraviolet lighting
19. A requirement for entering into a binding contract. If a contract proposal (offer) is made - it is accepted if the offeree signs the offer as submitted. If the offeree makes any changes to the offer before signing - it is a counter offer - not accept
Space assignment
Acceptance
Less than truckload
Audit
20. An alternative plan that may replace the original plan when circumstances change.
Contingency plan
Pre-event meeting
Indemnification clause
Certified Special Event Professional (CSEP)
21. 1) Common term for sealed beam spot or flood lamp with self-contained lens surfaced glass. 2) In golf - one less than bogey.
Shopping cart
Evaluation
Quick set
PAR
22. Integrated services digital network. A single ISDN line carries data at 128 Kbps. Although video conferences are possible at slower speeds - ISDN is considered to be the minimum for acceptable-quality video transmission.
Sponsorship
ISDN
Rider
Press release
23. List of names and addresses of the persons to whom publicity material or other information is to be sent.
Riser
Mailing list
Intelligent lighting
Breakout session
24. A videoconference of more than two sites.
Kiosk
Production company
Charter
Point-to-multipoint videoconference
25. 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.
T-1 line
Attrition clause
Return on investment ROI
Overtime
26. A commission over and above the normal base commission percentage.
Override
Music licensing
Broadband
Straight time
27. 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
Room block
Freight forwarder
Telecommunications devices for the deaf (TDD)
Desktop videoconferenceing (DVC)
28. 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
Interface
Exhibitor-appointed contractor (EAC)
Customs
Event profile
29. Donated financial or material support - usually in exchange for recognition; Paid opportunity for entity or an exhibitor to increase its visibility at the event.
Sponsorship
Leko
Income statement
Whiteboarding
30. Lens which produces a soft edged beam of light. Theatrical fixture with adjustable lens 150 W through 1500 W.
Fresnel
Social host
Destination management company (DMC)
Peripheral block
31. Structure of event program elements to achieve specific goals and objectives.
Program design
Broadcast Music - Inc. (BMI)
Lectern
Exhibition manager
32. Absence of obstacles preventing handicapped persons from moving freely to all public areas within a building.
Continuing Medical Education (CME)
Direct billing
Incremental budgeting
Barrier-free
33. Designated date when the facility will release a block of sleeping rooms to the general public. The date is typically three to four weeks before the event.
Request for proposal (RFP)
Cut-off date
Shopping cart
Certified Meeting Professional (CMP)
34. 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.
Audiovisual A/V
Linear booth
American Bar Association (ABA)
Certificate of insurance
35. A system in which revenue and expenses are counted as they are actually received.
Line array
Chat room
Cash accounting
Booking agent
36. Direct mail promotional materials sent to current and prospective exhibitors to encourage participation and promote the benefits of exhibiting in a specific show. Contains information about technical points - cost of exhibition space - floor plan of
Exhibitor prospectus
Zone fare
Marshalling yard
Internatinoal Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET)
37. The station which receives data transmissions from a communications satellite.
Less than truckload
Category cable
Downlink
Guest program
38. Accepted Practices Exchange. An initiative of the meetings - conventions & exhibitions industry managed by the Convention Industry Council (CIC). APEX develops and manages the implementation of accepted practices (voluntary standards) for the industr
Market segments
Shopping cart
V-shape set-up
APEX
39. 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
Material handling (formerly drayage)
Post-con
Link
40. 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.
Audit
Contract
Open bar (host bar)
Style
41. AKA Classroom set-up. Seating arrangement in which rows of tables with chairs face the front of a room and each person has a space for writing. Also Called SCHOOLROOM SET-UP.
Banquet event order (BEO)
Paid-out
Schoolroom set-up
History
42. 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
Space assignment
Marketing
lanning committee
Production company
43. Method to increase audience participation by dividing all participants in discussion groups each of which reports the group's findings and opinions during a following plenary session.
Backwall
Buzz session
Attrition clause
Continuing Medical Education (CME)
44. Abbreviation for "hundred weight." This is the unit of measure used in drayage and freight shipments.
Hundredweight (CWT)
International event
Mediation
Consideration
45. Digital subscriber line. Brings high bandwidth via copper phone lines.
Manifest
Copy editor
DSL
Fresnel
46. A release of rights to substitute one party for another party. The release of an insurance company right to succeed to the insured's rights to sue for damages against the tortfeasor - after the insurance company pays an insured's claim of loss due to
Manifest
Catering manager
Reservation review date
Waiver of subrogation
47. A document provided by an insurance company as proof that a policy has been issued and coverage is in effect.
CODEC
Certificate of insurance
Fishbowl
Pre-event meeting
48. A document - required by some countries - describing a shipment of goods and showing information such as the consignor - consignee - and value of the shipment. Certified by a consular official of the foreign country - it is used by that country's cus
American service
Walk
Exhibit house
Consular invoice
49. 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.
Walk
Audit
Market segments
Cafeteria service
50. 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.
Cut-off date
CYC
Evaluation
Suitcasing