Swope to speak at annual event September 22
 
ATLANTA, September 16, 2010 – Rubicon, a leading provider of competitive market intelligence to the travel and hospitality industry, today announced Chairman Steve Swope will speak at the 2010 Annual Lodging Conference on Wednesday, September 22 at 10:30 a.m.  The panel will present statistics, trends and projections for the coming months and year.  Swope will offer insight into the demand outlook for Q3 2010 through Q2 2011, including forward-looking occupancy and ADR trends, and discuss leading and lagging North American markets.  The conference takes place September 21 – 24th in Phoenix, Arizona at The Arizona Biltmore Resort & Spa.

“The Lodging Conference is one of the hotel industry’s premier events, and we are glad to be sharing our forward-looking demand data with such important hotel industry executives,” said Rubicon President and CEO Tim Hart.  “We would like to thank the Lodging Conference for inviting us to present again.  Steve’s panel is full of leading industry experts, so I look forward to hearing the collective insight they will offer.”

Other panelists that will accompany Swope include Vail Brown, Vice President, Global Sales & Marketing, STR; Bruce Ford, Senior Vice President Business Development, Lodging Econometrics; and R. Mark Woodworth, President, PKF Hospitality Research, Inc.
Rubicon will also be exhibiting at the event at booth #12. 

About The Lodging Conference

The 16th annual edition of The Lodging Conference is a must-attend hotel industry event. Over the past 16 years, over 17,000 industry executives from around the globe have attended this conference. Since, 1995, The Lodging Conference has been bringing together the hotel industry's most influential presidents and CEOs to discuss hotel strategies in development, finance, franchising, management and operations, as well as to network and make deals. More deals get done at The Lodging Conference than at any other industryevent.

About Rubicon®

Rubicon (www.RubiconGroup.com) offers the broadest and deepest collection of market insight in the travel industry today. A leading provider of competitive market intelligence, market analysis and revenue management products for the global travel industry, Rubicon integrates competitive market information into the business planning and revenue management practices of its customers. Its signature product, MarketVision®, offers a comprehensive suite of services that addresses market positioning in terms of price, demand and channel. Rubicon's publishing arm, IndustryIntel™, provides insights from the world's largest repository of future demand and cross-channel pricing data. 

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