
October 2005
TravelCLICK acquires Vantis International Corporation, a travel reservations and marketing services firm.
July 2005
TravelCLICK partners with Amadeus to market its new hotel preferred placement product, Amadeus Instant Preference (AIP).
May 2005
Robert Post becomes CEO of TravelCLICK.
April 2005
TravelCLICK introduces a new competitive intelligence product, Hotelligence FuturePACE, an interactive reporting tool that provides future-looking competitive intelligence from the GDS channel.
August 2004
TravelCLICK partners with Sabre to market its new hotel preferred placement product, Hotel Spotlight from Sabre Travel Network.
June 2004
TravelCLICK introduces a revenue management application, ChannelManager, allowing hotels to manage rates and inventory on multiple third-party websites from a single, web-based platform.
April 2004
TravelCLICK partners with USAToday.com to market its online media product.
February 2004
TravelCLICK acquires the remaining interest in iHotelier.
December 2003
TravelCLICK acquires Timeless Hospitality, a central reservation system, and migrates it into iHotelier.
September 2003
TravelCLICK partners with Hotwire to market its online media product.
July 2003
TravelCLICK acquires the majority interest in iHotelier, a company involved in the distribution of inventory and rates to electronic channels, and begins marketing iHotelier as a central reservations system.
April 2003
TravelCLICK launches its client extranet site, the Electronic Marketing Centre (EMC), to provide clients with access to online reporting and campaign management.
January 2003
TravelCLICK acquires HotelRevMax (HRM) along with several data reports designed to assist hotels in revenue management decisions. These reports become part of TravelCLICK’s competitive intelligence offering, including HotelPACE, HotelFlash and a new version of RateVIEW.
October 2002
TravelCLICK introduces two new competitive intelligence products, Corporate Hotelligence and Internet Hotelligence.
September 2002
TravelCLICK offers hotel customers voice reservations services through Virtual Agent Services (VAS).
August 2002
TravelCLICK opens operations offices in Barcelona, Spain and Melbourne, Australia.
April 2002
TravelCLICK partners with Orbitz to market its online media product.
TravelCLICK expands their partnership with Amadeus to include their data in the Hotelligence report.
January 2001
TravelCLICK partners with Worldspan to market their travel agent media product, Worldspan Accents.
August 2000
TravelCLICK partners with Amadeus to market their travel agent media product, Amadeus Instant Marketing (AIM).
2000
The TravelCLICK name and logo are officially announced to the public.
TravelCLICK expands their partnerships with Galileo and Worldspan to include their data in the Hotelligence report.
June 1999
TravelCLICK secures funding from Bain Capital.
December 1998
Making a strategic move in order to secure outside funding needed for rapid growth, Gray and Cohen merge The Graycon Group, HDSC and GMS to form one corporate entity, TravelCLICK, Inc.
September 1998
GMS partners with Sabre to market their travel agent media product, Sabre PromoSpots.
February 1997
The Graycon Group expands their relationship with Sabre by creating what will become the Hotelligence report.
June 1996
The Graycon Group expands their relationship with Galileo and begins to market their travel agent media product, Galileo Headlines. This marked the start of a new media division, Global Marketing Services (GMS).
1995
The Graycon Group partners with one of the GDS, Galileo, to create the PHASER report. This marked the start of a new division, Hospitality Data Services Corporation (HDSC).
1990
The Graycon Group introduces ResTRAK, a call center central reservation benchmarking data product.
1987
The Graycon Group was formed by Richard Gray and Ray Cohen and became a leading travel industry consulting firm specializing in information technology, distribution, marketing and strategic alliances.
1985
Two established travel industry executives, Richard W. Gray and Ray Cohen, meet and realize they both share a desire to pursue their own entrepreneurial ideas. |