Convention Industry Council Meets Two APEX Goals

It took two years, but the Convention Industry Council's APEX project finally has decided on a way to make sure everybody knows what he or she is talking about — at least on a couple of topics.

As part of the effort to systemize the way business in the hospitality industry is done, the first two of seven Accepted Practices Exchange areas were agreed upon: a glossary with 3,780 terms involving event management and suggestions on how to write a post-event report are now available at www.conventionindustry.org/apex.htm.

The APEX Industry Glossary, a collection of words describing event management, was approved in the terminology category, while suggestions for how and what to include in a post-event report were outlined for the history/post-event reports section.

"The benefits of panels from the first two works is that we've figured out the formula of how to streamline the research process," said Juli Finnell Jones, APEX project director. "Now, there's a more efficient industry review and feedback period because the industry is more educated on what APEX is." The target date to complete the remaining categories — resumes and work orders, requests for proposals, housing and registration, and meeting and site profiles — is 2005.