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MEEC - correct answer ✔✔ Meetings, Expositions, Events, & Conventions
The CIC is now called the EIC. What does EIC stand for? - correct answer ✔✔ Events Industry
Council
Is an initiative of the EIC that promotes development and implementation of industry-wide
accepted practices to create and enhance efficiencies throughout the meetings, conventions,
and exhibitions industry. - correct answer ✔✔ Accepted practices exchange
Meeting & exhibition - correct answer ✔✔ Where the primary activity of the participants is to
attend education sessions, participate in discussions, socialize, to attend other organized events.
There is no exhibition component to this event.
Event - correct answer ✔✔ an organized occasion such as meeting, convention, exhibition,
special event, gala dinner, and so on. It is often composed of several different yet related
functions.
Tradeshow, Consumer show - correct answer ✔✔ is an exhibition of products and/or services
held for members of a common or related industry. If it were open to the public, it would be
called a consumer show.
What are the 6 segments of the hospitality industry? - correct answer ✔✔ 1. Lodging 2. FCB 3.
Transportation 4. Attractions 5. Entertainment 6. Shopping
Typically, which three groups hold MEEC gatherings? - correct answer ✔✔ 1. Corporations 2.
Associations 3. Government
, Corporations - correct answer ✔✔ legally chartered enterprises that conduct business on behalf
of their owners with the purpose of making a profit and increasing its value.
According to meeting & conventions 2008 meeting market report, corporate planners spent
about. - correct answer ✔✔ 53% of their time planning meetings.
30% of people who plan corporate meetings have the title - correct answer ✔✔ of meeting
planner.
Associations - correct answer ✔✔ organized group of individuals and/or companies that band
together to accomplish a common purpose, usually to provide for the needs of its members.
34% - correct answer ✔✔ Associations derive of their organization's income from the annual
convention, exhibition, and meetings.
The major difference between association and corporate meetings is that attendance at
association meetings is - correct answer ✔✔ voluntary not mandatory.
SMERF - correct answer ✔✔ Social, Military, Educational, Religious, Fraternal
Government - correct answer ✔✔ entities at all levels have continuing needs to hold meetings,
since they have continuing needs to communicate and interact with many constituent bodies.
The federal government and many state governments establish that set limits on expenditures
for lodging and meals. - correct answer ✔✔ per-diem rates
Convention - correct answer ✔✔ often called national tourism board or provincial tourism.