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CMP: Certified Meeting Professional
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1. Truckload rates apply where the tariff shows a truckload minimum weight. Charges will be at the truckload minimum weight unless weight is higher.
Concession
Modified American Plan MAP
Truckload
Streaming
2. Meeting Industry Network (formerly CINET or Convention Industry Network). On-line information network tracking historical and future site/booking information. CINET is provided by IACVB to its members.
Meeting Information Network (MINT)
APEX RFP
Stacked speaker system
Island booth
3. An event that requires the use of a convention center or event complex - as well as multiple hotels in the host city.
Rear projection
High season
Multi-management firm
Citywide event
4. (Unshielded Twisted Pair Cable or UTP) Usually referred to as Cat 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 or 5 cable. Cat 5 transmits data the fastest. Fast Ethernet requires enhanced Cat 5 cable or Cat 5 to operate at its full potential.
Guest program
Press conference
Category cable
ite inspection
5. A hollow square whose corners are replaced by serpentine or half-moon tables.
CODEC
Sub-block
Rounded hollow square
ite inspection
6. The rooms that are contracted for by an event organizer with a hotel(s) or housing facility(s) for a particular event.
Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME)
Event-contracted block (ECB)
Evaluation
Net worth
7. A supplier of a specific event service - such as photography - rental of furniture or audiovisual equipment - or floral decoration.
Sales lead
Russian restaurant service
Specialty contractor
Real-time
8. A detailed section of a contract pertaining to a specific issue.
Liquidated damage clause
Blog
Budget
Clause
9. Abbreviation for "hundred weight." This is the unit of measure used in drayage and freight shipments.
Cancellation clause
Priority point system
LED Light Emitting Diode
Hundredweight (CWT)
10. An exhibit with aisles on three sides.
Computer assisted drawing (CAD)
Ultraviolet lighting
Peninsula booth
Cancellation clause
11. An individual who guides discussion and/or decision making.
Facilitator
Style
Hand carry
Commerical invoice
12. 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
Podcast
Lavaliere microphone
CODEC
Hand carry
13. 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.
Attrition clause
Fixed costs
Workshop
Press release
14. European term for booth or exhibit.
Stand
Complimentary room
Uplink
Post event report
15. A self-contained unit with a LCD (liquid crystal display) panel - light source and lens that works with both PC and Mac computers and duplicates the image being shown on the monitor without any need for special software or complex setting up.
LCD projector
Stand
Continuing education
Wireless microphone
16. 1) Room or suite of rooms used to entertain guests. 2) An event in the United States usually separate from the exhibit - in which refreshments are served and exhibitor personnel and visitors socialize.
Marshalling yard
Hospitality suite
Computer data projection
Barrier-free
17. An insurance policy that provides protection against claims involving bodily injury and property damage to third parties.
Exhibitor Advisory Committee
General liability insurance
Confirmation number
LCD projector
18. An email - bulk fax - or bulk mail broadcast that provides attendees and prospects with the latest news and information about an upcoming event. Such reminders are usually distributed on an opt-in basis. See EMAIL ALERT.
Conference reminder
Covers
Exhibit house
Foreign exchange currency risk
19. 1) Pallet. 2) Wooden platform used to support machinery or a collection of objects for easier handling. 3) Thick wood blocks attached to crates which allow forklift access for easier handling. 4) Wood runners protecting the exterior of a shipping cas
ducational programming committee
Skid
Pre-registration
Certified Professional Catering Executive (CPCE)
20. Land-based system for videoconferencing designed to manage communication between one group of people - usually in a conference room setting - with another group or groups in similar settings elsewhere.
Post event report
Association of Destination Management Executives (ADME)
Room-based videoconferencing
Change order
21. Seating arrangement in which seats are in rows facing the stage area - no tables. See AUDITORIUM SET-UP.
Theater set-up
Relational databases
Destination management company (DMC)
ducational programming committee
22. 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.
Post-event meeting
Caterer
Schoolroom set-up
Interface
23. A return of part of a payment.
Rebates
Zone fare
Liquidated damage clause
Gratuity
24. A marketing plan should answer the question - What is the benefit to attending the event?
Platform
Value proposition
Objective
Convention and visitors bureau (CVB)
25. 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.
Lead retrieval
Non-performance
Exhibitor service manual
Convention services manager (CSM)
26. 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.
Symposium
Bandwidth
Continuing education
Fishbowl
27. An advanced partial payment to secure product or service.
Deposit
Smart form
Event profile
Priority point system
28. An event that incoporates environmental considerations throughout all states of the planning process in order to minimize the negative impact on the environment.
Continuing Medical Education (CME)
Simultaneous translation
Outboarding
Green event
29. An event (e.g. war - labor strike - extreme weather - or other disruptive circumstances) or effect that cannot be reasonably anticipated or controlled: a "fortuitous event."
Force majeure
Omnidirectional microphone
Virtual conferencing
On-demand
30. Program and process by which a participant completes proscribed training and passes an assessment.
Yield management
Lead retrieval
Certification
Stakeholder
31. A manner of behavior that touches all elements of communication and the way that we interact with customers and colleagues.
Etiquette
PCMA Space Verification Program
Installation and dismantle (I&D)
Trade-out
32. Digital subscriber line. Brings high bandwidth via copper phone lines.
Audience reaction team
Return on investment ROI
Commerical invoice
DSL
33. An individual or company which provides customs clearing services to shippers of goods to and from another country. Licensing and requirements vary from country to country. In the United States - a customs broker must be licensed by the Treasury Depa
Billing instructions
National Speakers Association (NSA)
Customs broker
Concession
34. Association of Destination Management Executives. A member of the Convention Industry Council.
Association of Destination Management Executives (ADME)
Peninsula booth
Media relations
Colloquium
35. Devices that help people who are hard of hearing connect to the speaker system and use their hearing aids to hear the speaker more clearly.
Logistics
Assisted listening devices (ALD)
Income statement
Desktop videoconferenceing (DVC)
36. 1) The opposite of real-time. 2) Audio and/or video programming available on a Web site after the completion of an event - providing this content so Web site visitors can listen or view at their discretion. 3) FAX system for sending out faxed materia
Opt-out
Application sharing
On-demand
Copy editor
37. 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
Certification
General liability insurance
Distance learning
Simultaneous translation
38. Categorization of people - organizations or businesses by professional discipline or primary areas of interest for the purposes of sales analysis or assignment.
NCR form
Market segments
Equalizer
Online registration
39. Number of facility guest rooms actually used out of a room block.
Arrival pattern
Pick-up
Production company
Mitigation
40. 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
Event specifications guide (ESG)
In conjunction with (ICW)
Customs broker
Exclusive
41. Building an event budet by analyzing both the projected and actual figures from the previous year's budget.
Exhibition service contractor
Incremental budgeting
Customs broker
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
42. Business-to-Business.
Cut-off date
B2B
LED Light Emitting Diode
Social host
43. Light-weight aluminum tubing and drapery used to separate exhibit booths/stands - staging areas - and other similar locations.
Pipe & drape
Mediation
Etiquette
Group specifications guide
44. Supplier of booth/stand equipment - rental furnishings - floor coverings - labor - drayage and signs for exhibitions and trade shows. See GENERAL SERVICE CONTRACTOR.
Exhibition service contractor
Bandwidth
Sampling
Site inspection
45. Wooden platform used to carry goods. See SKID.
Force majeure
Export declaration
Pallet
Multi-management firm
46. Preferred term for the specific person responsible for all aspects of planning - promoting - and producing an exhibition. Also Called SHOW MANAGER - SHOW ORGANIZER.
Exhibition manager
Export declaration
Uplink
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
47. 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
Virtual conferencing
Gobo
Pick-up
Certificate of insurance
48. 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.
Computer assisted drawing (CAD)
CYC
Market segments
Stand
49. A document provided by an insurance company as proof that a policy has been issued and coverage is in effect.
ISDN
Whiteboarding
Stand
Certificate of insurance
50. Function room set-up that saves room turnover time - limits the number of event rooms required - and avoids additional charges for changing room set-ups.
Contract
Quick set
Exhibit house
Cost center