Please note that most of the following terms are internationally used. Nevertheless, their meaning can vary from one language another or depending on the sector of use. We would like to give a synthetic explanation for better understandin |
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| BUSINESS TOURIST : | A person who leaves his usual work environment for a minimum of one night for professional reasons. |
| CONFERENCE : | Important meeting with a target to communicate, exchange information, solve problems or develop any specific subject in particular. |
| CONGRESS : | A meeting of elected or appointed representatives |
| D.M.C : | Abbreviation for Destination Management Company or ground operator. |
| F&B : | Contraction for food and beverage.
The contraction F&B is often used in hotel proposals offering special rates including lunch, dinner, coffee break. These business packages (usually half or full-day) include meals and drinks. |
| FAM TRIP : | Is a contraction for familiarisation trip.
These events are usually dedicated to meeting planners / decision makers who visit a destination in order to see the quality of the services and the diversity and choice of suppliers. Fam trips can be organised by one or several suppliers in a destination or by the convention bureau of the same country.Usually the cost of a fam trip is covered by the organisation. |
| I.T : | Abbreviation for « individual tourism » as opposed to group tourism.
IT prices are usually rack rates up to 10 pax. |
| M.I.C.E : | Abbreviation of the main types of business events: Meetings,Incentives,Conferences and Events.
MICE tourism is equivalent tobusiness tourism. |
| MEETING PLANNER : | A meeting planner is an employee or a freelance who is regularly in charge of the organisation of business events: It can for domestic or international events,seminars, meetings, incentives, conferences, or congresses… The meeting planner can be director’s personal assistant (PA), the person in charge of the head of communication or marketing department. In large corporate companies the meeting planner can have full time responsibilities and is sometimes placed within a special travel department. |
| P.C.O : | Abbreviation for Professional Congress Organiser. A company specialised in congress management : accommodation management, registration of delegates, management of the abstracts, financial management of the congress, sponsoring…
The organisation of a congress is completely different from any other event and needs specific skills. |
| PAX : | Contraction of "passenger".
Also used in the business travel vocabulary with the meaning of "participant" or "person", “delegate”, part of one group. |
| RACK RATES : | Official or public rates, as opposed to group rates to a special rate negotiated by an agency or company or group rates (usually for more than 10pax). |
| RFP : | Request for proposal: this abbreviation is used by most of the meeting planners. A RFP is an organised and well-structured document which gives the professional frame for information relative to a new event project.
Such a document is historically used between event agencies and DMCs. The quality of this document is essential in the process of the organisation and realisation of any project. |