Humphrey Hospitality Trust, Inc. Announces Monthly Dividend Payment Schedule for January 2000 to March 2000

Business Wire, Dec 20, 1999

     Business Editors

     SILVER SPRING, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 20, 1999--Humphrey
Hospitality Trust, Inc. (Nasdaq:HUMP) today announced that its board
of directors had declared a monthly cash dividend payment schedule for
January 2000 to March 2000 as follows:

January 2000
     Declared for Shareholders of Record               01/31/2000
     Paydate                                           02/29/2000

February 2000
     Declared for Shareholders of Record               02/29/2000
     Paydate                                           03/31/2000

March 2000
     Declared for Shareholders of Record               03/31/2000
     Paydate                                           04/28/2000

     The monthly dividend will be paid at the rate of $.075 per share,
which represents an annualized rate of $.90 per share. Based on
Friday's closing stock price of $6.875 (or 6 7/8), the annualized
dividend yield is 13.1 percent.
     Humphrey Hospitality Trust, Inc. is a self-advised real estate
investment trust headquartered in Silver Spring, Maryland, which owns
88 hotels located in 19 states.

     Forward-looking statements in this news release, if any, are made
under the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation
Reform Act of 1995. Certain important factors that could cause results
to differ materially from those anticipated by the forward-looking
statements are discussed from time to time in reports filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission.

     --30--RV/ph*

     CONTACT:  Humphrey Hospitality Trust
               Paul G. Bollinger, 301/680-4357

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