Types of Meetings
Who Holds Meetings
Types of Group Customers
Types of Meeting Facilities
Trends in Meetings
Acronyms
100
Involves small groups dealing with specific problems.
What is a Workshop?
100
Technical societies belong to this major category of convention business.
What are Associations?
100
Meeting planners fall into five basic groups. (T/F)
What is false?
100
A popular choice for incentive meetings.
What are Cruise Ships?
100
The name of this trend:
What is Wellness Movement?
100
CIC.
What is the Convention Industry Council?
200
Involves sharing of knowledge.
What is a Seminar?
200
Labour Unions belong to this major category of convention business.
What are Non-profit organizations?
200
These planners will be thorough and timely in presenting information and instruction to the hotel.
What are full-time meeting planners?
200
These venues are designed specifically for meetings.
What are Conference centers?
200
This involves using alternative forms of power including solar power.
What is energy efficiency and conservation?
200
FTE.
What is Full Time Equivalent?
300
Audience participation is expected.
What is a Forum?
300
This segment has become important to hotels due the large number of room nights they occupy each year.
What are SMERF groups?
300
Dealing with an intermediary not directly with those holding the meeting.
What are third-party planners?
300
These hotels offer free wi-fi and hot breakfast.
What are Airport Hotels?
300
Banquet chefs are replacing heavy food with this "mindful" slow release energy food.
What is "brain food"?
300
LEED.
What is Leadership, Energy, Environmental & Design?
400
This type of meeting works best with a passive audience.
What is a Lecture?
400
Incentive trips are a possible prize for this major category of convention business.
What are Corporations?
400
The average salary of a meeting planner.
What is $ 77 000?
400
Great choice when if you wish to buy out an entire hotel to ensure privacy for a group.
What are Boutique hotels?
400
Hotels can contribute to these programs by providing data on meeting spend and offering suggestions to reduce costs.
What are strategic meetings management programs?
400
RFP.
What is Request for Proposal?
500
“European” Conference.
What is a Congress?
500
These attendees are usually spending their own money.
What are SMERF groups?
500
Travel agents.
What are third-party planners?
500
A popular convention hotel in Vancouver.
What is the Pan Pacific Hotel?
500
The "colour" of a building with the following certification:
What is green?
500
MICE.
What is Meetings, Incentives, Conventions and Exhibitions?