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CMP: Certified Meeting Professional
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1. All individuals who are invested in a project or event such as the sponsors - attendees - vendors - media and others.
Unopposed exhibit hours
Continuing Education Unit (CEU)
Commission
Stakeholder
2. 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.
Transfer
Production company
Certification
American Plan (Full American Plan)
3. Number of facility guest rooms actually used out of a room block.
Media relations
Scoop
Pick-up
Fixed costs
4. Certified Special Event Professional; an earned designation from the International Special Events Society (ISES).
Service charge
Gratuity
LCD projector
Certified Special Event Professional (CSEP)
5. 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 data projection
Return on investment ROI
Net worth
Fixed costs
6. Association of Destination Management Executives. A member of the Convention Industry Council.
Rider
Release date
Pipe & drape
Association of Destination Management Executives (ADME)
7. 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
Relational databases
Line level
Clause
Casual attire
8. Period when the demand for a supplier's product or service is lowest. Prices general decrease in low season.
Low season
Meet and greet
Poster session
Cafeteria service
9. Hiring an outside firm or individual to perform the task instead of using in-house staff; to subcontract a task or responsibility to a third party.
Symposium
Outsourcing
Streaming
Broadband
10. Flat rate for which a hotel or motel agrees to offer any of its available sleeping rooms (with the exception of suites) to a group. Final assignment of rooms is at the discretion of the hotel. See RUN-OF-THE-HOUSE RATE.
Complimentary room
Point-to-multipoint videoconference
Outsourcing
Flate rate
11. Period when the demand for a supplier's product or service is neither high nor low.
On consumption
Arbitration
APEX RFP
Shoulder season
12. Informative and instructional speech.
Focus group
Barrier-free
Skid
Lecture
13. 1) Ability of a projection system to distinguish and reproduce fine detail. 2) Motion put forward for a joint decision; usually has the force of a legislative decision.
Digital video
Exhibitor-appointed contractor (EAC)
Sampling
Resolution
14. 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.
Computer data projection
Marketing
Contract
Real-time
15. The transfer of monies into and out of an enterprise.
Budget
Platform
Multi-point bridge
Cash flow
16. Labor performed and paid at standard rate for work during normal business hours as established by unions.
APEX RFP
Intelligent lighting
Etiquette
Straight time
17. 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.
Direct billing
CYC
French banquet service
Export license
18. Lifts - trusses - pipe or other freestanding devices used to raise sound - lighting or other equipment above the heads of attendees and to support it from the floor.
Exclusive
Stand
Ground support
Secure digital certificate
19. The activities that are undertaken to either reduce the probability that an emergency or crisis will occur or reduce the consequences if it does occur.
Accommodation
Intelligent lighting
Zone fare
Mitigation
20. 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
Paid-out
Rooming list
Floor plan
Group ware
21. 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.
Van line
Overhead
Transfer
Projector
22. 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.
Installation and dismantle (I&D)
Cash flow
Customs
Flying
23. A holding area where trucks or buses check in and wait for instructions before delivering or picking up freight or passengers.
Marshalling yard
Minimum labor call
Intelligent lighting
V-shape set-up
24. Portable MICROPHONE operating on its own power source. Often used to pass through an audience for questions or comments. Also Called WIRELESS MICROPHONE.
Ultraviolet lighting
Wireless microphone
Deposit
Backwall
25. 1) Free-standing pavilion or light structure - often inside a facility - where printed or electronic information is available. 2) A small enclosure for ticket sales - information - etc.
Master account
Trade show facilitation website
Kiosk
Convention services manager (CSM)
26. Private room bar set up where guests do not pay for drinks.
Open bar (host bar)
CYC
Travel agent
Rounded hollow square
27. 1) A mandatory and automatic amount added to standard food and beverage charges - usually used to defray the cost of labor - such as housemen - servers - technicians - etc. and which the facility receives a portion of the charge. In return - the gues
Accessibility
Meet and greet
Service charge
Tip
28. The opposite of an opt-in email marketing campaign
Fresnel
Mitigation
Opt-out
Budget
29. Abbreviation for "hundred weight." This is the unit of measure used in drayage and freight shipments.
Scoop
Hundredweight (CWT)
Installation and dismantle (I&D)
Shopping cart
30. 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
Exhibitor prospectus
Dram shop laws
LCD projector
Modified American Plan MAP
31. Program and process by which a participant completes proscribed training and passes an assessment.
Provision
Certification
Concession
Green event
32. One or more standard units of exhibit space. In the US - a standard unit is generally known to be a 10' x 10' space (one standard booth/stand unit - equaling 100 nsf). However - if an exhibitor purchases multiple units side-by-side or back-to-back -
Booth
Multidisciplinary
Intelligent lighting
Authorized signatory
33. Actual number of meals served at a catered meal function or in a restaurant. See AUDIENCE COUNT.
Platform
Covers
Island booth
Chat room
34. A black light used to make phosphorescent and fluorescent paints glow in the dark.
Ultraviolet lighting
Room block
Multi-management firm
Hospitality suite
35. 1) The jobs that may be performed by a specific labor union. 2) The locality where a contractual dispute is decided. 3) In law - the ability of a court to hear and decide a matter brought before it.
Exhibition service contractor
Jurisdiction
Space assignment
Buzz session
36. 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
Smart form
Limited power of attorney
Buzz session
Consideration
37. A return of part of a payment.
Concession
LED Light Emitting Diode
Kiosk
Rebates
38. Unpublished rates offered from the areas of the U.S. and Canada to specified event destinations; they do not require Saturday night stay over.
Symposium
Zone fare
Etiquette
Variable costs
39. 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.
Audit
Video projection
Marketing
Buzz session
40. AKA Pre-con meeting. A meeting at the primary facility at which an event will take place just prior to the event beginning. Attendees generally include the primary event organizer - representatives of the event organizer/host organization - departmen
Mixer
Pre-event meeting
Travel agent
Continuing Legal Education (CLE)
41. A document provided by an insurance company as proof that a policy has been issued and coverage is in effect.
Line level
Exhibitor Advisory Committee
Certificate of insurance
Hand carry
42. 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.
Alternative dispute resolution (ADR)
Concession
Etiquette
Return on investment ROI
43. Required for shipments valued at more than $2500; used by the U.S. government to monitor the dollar volume of export shipments.
PCMA Space Verification Program
Special event professional
Social host
Export declaration
44. In-person on-site review and evaluation of a venue or location for an event.
Modified American Plan
Event specifications guide (ESG)
ite inspection
Certified Professional Catering Executive (CPCE)
45. The standard seating supplied by most facilities. This kind of seating in wide rooms has the disadvantage of restricting the view of attendees sitting at the row ends. Best for presentations in which audience interaction is not required.
History
Attrition clause
Tip
Straight-row seating
46. 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
Market segments
Jurisdiction
Production company
Event specifications guide (ESG)
47. An event that requires the use of a convention center or event complex - as well as multiple hotels in the host city.
Priority point system
Pre-event meeting
Zone fare
Citywide event
48. 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
Suitcasing
Acceptance
ISDN
Lavaliere microphone
49. Raised horizontal surface - stage - or flooring.
Target date
Social host
Change order
Platform
50. A group of rooms that is reserved by a party outside of the ECB but is present in the city as a result of the Main Event (for example - some exhibitors - some international tour groups). A Peripheral Block's consumed room nights should be credited to
Peripheral block
Cash flow
Post-event meeting
Chart of accounts