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CMP: Certified Meeting Professional
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1. 1) Any seat - berth - room - or service provided and/or sold to a guest - attendee or passenger. 2) Under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) - a step taken to allow a person with a disability to participate in an event or employment.
French banquet service
Flying
Arbitration
Accommodation
2. The projection of a computer signal from a personal computer - laptop or other computer device onto a screen from a LCD or equivalent projector for viewing by audience.
National Speakers Association (NSA)
Computer data projection
Mixer
Income statement
3. Program and process by which a participant completes proscribed training and passes an assessment.
Certification
Opt-out
Stacked speaker system
Complimentary room
4. Business-to-Business.
Protocol
Conference center
B2B
High season
5. Booth/stand space assigned to exhibiting companies or meeting rooms assigned to event groups.
PAR
Scoop
Sampling
Space assignment
6. A list showing the number and kinds of items being shipped - as well as other information needed for transportation purposes.
Schedule of services
Packing list
Theater set-up
Alternative dispute resolution (ADR)
7. Web browser-based videoconferencing.
Ground support
Certification
Sponsorship
Webconferencing
8. 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.
Schoolroom set-up
Marketing collateral
Specialty contractor
Music licensing
9. Legal responsibility. An obligation to pay an amount in damages. In a non-legal context - something that is a negative factor.
Pipe & drape
Paid-out
Attrition clause
Liability
10. 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
Exhibitor-appointed contractor (EAC)
Intelligent lighting
Group ware
Protocol
11. A new development using computer chips that can be read from a distance (similar to a bar code without the need for line of sight). This type of technology holds promise to help attendees - event managers and exhibitors share information - log into c
Commission
Radio frequency identification (RFID)
Barrier-free
Contract
12. The rooms that are contracted for by an event organizer with a hotel(s) or housing facility(s) for a particular event.
Rear projection
Marketing
Event-contracted block (ECB)
Exhibitor prospectus
13. RFP. A document that stipulates what services the organization wants from an outside contractor and requests a bid to perform such services. Same As BID MANUAL/SPECIFICATIONS.
B2B
Release date
Request for proposal (RFP)
Backwall
14. Web sites that give visitors a reason to return to the site and be exposed to new offers.
Chat room
Interview
International event
Mic level
15. 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.
Change order
Exhibitor prospectus
Platform
Chart of accounts
16. Casting video images on monitors or on large screen.
U-shape set-up
Specialty contractor
Straight-row seating
Video projection
17. An individual or company providing installation & dismantle and booth/stand and hall dressing services for a trade show and/or its exhibitors. Decorator services may be provided by carpenters - sign painters or others depending upon union jurisdictio
Document sharing
Decorator
Export license
Cluster
18. Digital light processor data/video projectors were developed with an entirely new processor using microscopic mirrors to recreate video images and display them in a number of settings. These projectors picked up where LCD left off by reproducing vide
Cash flow
Cash accounting
Debate
DLP projector
19. 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
Event specifications guide (ESG)
Value-added tax (VAT)
Peninsula booth
Advance registration
20. 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
Publicity
Video projection
Cash accounting
21. 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.
Music licensing
DVCam
Convention and visitors bureau (CVB)
Lavaliere microphone
22. International Association for Continuing Education and Training.
Peninsula booth
Request for proposal (RFP)
Internatinoal Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET)
Professional
23. A feature of many videoconferencing systems that allows two or more people to use the same software program - even if all do not have it on their computer or conferencing system.
T-1 line
Application sharing
Audience polling
Export license
24. Light-weight aluminum tubing and drapery used to separate exhibit booths/stands - staging areas - and other similar locations.
History
Offer
Pipe & drape
Less than truckload
25. 1) The process of attaching the cable on a crane to a piece of machinery or equipment. 2) The process for hanging materials or signs.
Rigging
Packing list
Digital marketing
ducational programming committee
26. An event that draws a national and international audience. Typically 15% or more of attendees reside outside of the host country.
International event
Cash accounting
Point-to-multipoint videoconference
Needs assessment
27. Series of tables set up in the shape of the block T with chairs set all around except at the head table.
Chart of accounts
Transfer
T-shape set-up
Pre-con
28. CSM. Professional at a hotel - convention center or convention bureau who is responsible for event operations management on all levels.
Rider
Document sharing
Bid
Convention services manager (CSM)
29. A member of the Convention Industry Council.
National Speakers Association (NSA)
ite inspection
Flying
Paid-out
30. Other names for event order (EO) - function sheet - or Banquet Event Order (BEO)
Exhibitor service manual
Buffet
Cash flow
Function set-up order
31. 1) Broadly - one who acts or has the power to act: more usually - one that acts as the representative of another. Most frequently in travel - a specific kind of agent such as a retail travel agent. 2) Person that obtains engagements for entertainers
Booking agent
Rear projection
Suitcasing
Booth
32. Building an event budet by analyzing both the projected and actual figures from the previous year's budget.
Incremental budgeting
Internatinoal Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET)
Linear booth
Pre-con
33. The organization providing alcohol to guests.
Carnet
Smart form
American service
Social host
34. Equipment - materials - and teaching aids used in sound and visual presentations - such as television monitors - video - sound equipment - etc.
CYC
Download
Acceptance
Audiovisual A/V
35. 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.
Linear booth
Material handling (formerly drayage)
Facilitator
Lead retrieval
36. Affordable videoconferencing equipment that is available and allows participants to use their computers indead of proprietary hardware for virtual meetings. They provide real-time interaction using a personal computer.
Shopping cart
Desktop videoconferenceing (DVC)
Convention services manager (CSM)
Marshalling yard
37. 1) A statement of what one will give or take in return for something else (a price); proposal. 2) Proposal submitted by a convention & visitors bureau and/or hotel(s) to an event organizer that includes defined dates and room blocks.
Minimum labor call
Bid
Distributed speaker system
2-D bar code
38. List of names and addresses of the persons to whom publicity material or other information is to be sent.
Lead retrieval
Service charge
Mailing list
Scoop
39. 1) Regeneration of sound from audio speakers back through a microphone causing a squealing sound. 2) Response about an activity - policy - or idea.
Butler service
Digital marketing
Cancellation Clause
Feedback
40. The organization who provides accrediation for Continuing Medical Education (CME).
Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME)
Demonstration
Reservation review date
Post event report
41. 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.
Production company
Trade-out
APEX
Hundredweight (CWT)
42. 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.
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
Assisted listening devices (ALD)
Yield management
Market segments
43. A solid-state diode rectifier whose atomic properties cause it to emit light when electric current is passed through it. Current LED technology allows the emission of light from infrared through green frequencies - and visible light LEDs are availabl
Digital video
Event-contracted block (ECB)
Interface
LED Light Emitting Diode
44. 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.
Shopping cart
Modified American Plan MAP
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
Cancellation Clause
45. Actual number of meals served at a catered meal function or in a restaurant. See AUDIENCE COUNT.
Chat room
Exhibitor Advisory Committee
Certified Professional Catering Executive (CPCE)
Covers
46. AKA Housing Bureau. Organization that provides reservation services for a group and its attendees.
American Plan (Full American Plan)
Mixer
Productivity ticket
Housing company
47. Organizations offering this type of continuing education credits are accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME).
Override
ISDN
Continuing Medical Education (CME)
Chat room
48. Guest holding confirmed sleeping room reservation is denied accommodations at the hotel where to reservation is held upon their arrival and is relocated to another hotel.
Shoulder season
Russian restaurant service
Walk
Secure digital certificate
49. When a company tries to sell its product or service on the show floor without the permission or consent of the event's management.
Convention center
Computer data projection
Suitcasing
Professional congress organizer (PCO)
50. Individuals who will participate in the pre-event meetings. Generally includes the planner - key members of planner's staff - CSM - Catering Managers - A/V representatives - room set-up representatives - etc.
Pre-event meeting
Bandwidth
Mediation
lanning committee