Supply Side Forecast for 2007 Shows 100,000 New Guestrooms to Open; '07 Expected to be a Second Record-breaking Profit Year in a Row

Business Wire, July 14, 2005

For the remaining 112 smaller markets, InterContinental has the deepest Development Pipeline with 356 hotels/30,934 rooms, largely due to its Holiday Inn Express brand, the fastest-growing brand in the country. Hilton is second with 253 hotels/26,536 rooms - impacted by its strong Hampton Inn programs at highway locations, in smaller cities and in the suburbs of the major markets. Marriott follows with a lower 199 hotels/25,173 rooms, primarily because they don't always choose to pursue the development of smaller projects in non-strategic markets.

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