Rubicon Fact Sheet

What: The Rubicon Group^® (Rubicon), A Travelclick company, is a leading provider of competitive market intelligence, market analysis and decision support solutions to the global travel industry.

The Difference: Rubicon offers the broadest and deepest collection of market insight in the travel industry today. Rubicon's impressive database includes years of historical trend information along with future demand and pricing information from the world's largest hotel brands, updated daily. Rubicon is the only company to offer both forward-looking and historical market views.

How: Rubicon aggregates, organizes and calculates historical and forward looking price, demand and channel information from participating hotel companies and then packages this information so that customers gain deep, actionable insights into the leading indicators of performance for the industry, the market and the individual property. Rubicon's products and services integrate into its customers' business planning and revenue management practices in ways that uniquely influence revenue performance and market position.

Products: All of the products and services Rubicon offers have a consistent focus on the future. Products include:

• MarketVision^® – a suite of services that addresses market positioning in terms of price, demand and channel
• DecisionPoint – services that help customers execute price decisions, revenue planning and other strategic business functions
• IndustryIntel™ – Rubicon’s publishing arm
• Enterprise Solutions – professional services for the enterprise needs of our customers

Customers: Rubicon's  customers include the top global hotel and rental car companies as well as those with an interest in the travel and hospitality industry.

Where: The Rubicon home office is in Atlanta, Georgia with additional offices in London and Minneapolis, Minnesota. Travelclick is headquartered in New York, New York.

Who: Founded in 1999 by executives from revenue management and travel distribution backgrounds.

• Co-founder – Steve Swope
• Co-founder and President – Tim Hart
• Co-founder, Vice President, Enterprise Solutions – Andy Storey

Why: In 1999, Rubicon founders Steve Swope, Tim Hart and Andy Storey saw a critical need in the marketplace. While participating in the largest, most complex revenue management implementations in the airline, hotel and rental car industries, they observed that virtually all such systems failed to take into account competitor pricing. These systems relied heavily on important historical information but did not take into account essential future price and demand information. Seeking to advance the state of revenue management, Swope, Hart and Storey launched Rubicon and resolved to integrate future competitive pricing and market demand information into the price decision process.

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