If Choice Hotels is an organization that's slipping, Carlson is one that's in freefall.
Participating hotels include Marriott, Best Western, Wyndham, Laquinta Inns and Suites (beginning in January), Americinn and Choice Hotels.
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Meanwhile, 90% of Choice Hotels franchisees say they're happy with Ledsinger and Choice, up from 80% three years ago.
While Petitt owns hotels and once headed Choice Hotels (Comfort Inn, EconoLodge), Echo Mountain has no lodging, restaurants or condos.
While Petitt owns hotels and once headed Choice Hotels (Comfort Inn, EconoLodge), Echo Mountain has no overnight lodging, restaurants or condos.
Other competitors in the services sector include: Hyatt Hotels Corporation (H), Wyndham Worldwide (WYN), and Choice Hotels International, Inc. (CHH).
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When Charles Ledsinger Jr. became chief executive of Choice Hotels in 1998, the hotel industry was adding rooms by the thousands, and ever-fancier ones at that.
Since becoming chief executive at Choice Hotels International (nyse: CHH - news - people ) in 1998, Ledsinger has added 1, 700 properties to Choice's collection, bringing it to 5, 200.
Another is Petter Stordalen, the owner of Nordic Choice Hotels, the largest hotel chain in Norway, who chartered it in August to sail around the Greek islands with his wife, the model-cum-physician Gunhild.
When the casinos first opened, visitors had a choice of 20 hotels in all of Tunica County.
And a careful choice of transport providers and hotels can also ensure travel spend has socio-economic or environmental benefits.
Holiday clubs offer the choice of different locations of hotels for customers and pay an upfront fee, as well as an annual maintenance fee.
Westminster City Council said it was dealing with an unprecedented demand for homes in the borough and that it had no choice but to use the hotels to house homeless people.
He frets over the "guest experience" at the hotels and motels that carry Choice's nine flags, which include Comfort Inn, Quality Inn, Econo Lodge and Sleep Inn.
The cheapo segment is looking mighty attractive to big customers like FedEx, which has invited Choice to bid on a corporate-travel account involving 300 hotels in the Pacific Northwest.
This year 123 of the company's 199 new franchise agreements came from converting other hotels--a Holiday Inn, say--to one of Choice's chains.
Amazingly, for a hotel that is far and away the top choice in the city, it is also surprisingly affordable and shows up many more expensive hotels around the country.
Still, the most important factor in hotel choice is the price of the room, said Gina LaBarre of Crowne Plaza, and hotels are taking a serious look at how much they charge so they can stay competitive.
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