Whitbread owns Premier Inn hotels, Brewers Fayre pubs, Table Table pubs and Beefeater restaurants.
While Petitt owns hotels and once headed Choice Hotels (Comfort Inn, EconoLodge), Echo Mountain has no lodging, restaurants or condos.
But some major chains had no poor scores recorded at all, including Carluccio's, Eat, Marriot Hotels, Premier Inn and Zizzi.
While Petitt owns hotels and once headed Choice Hotels (Comfort Inn, EconoLodge), Echo Mountain has no overnight lodging, restaurants or condos.
They made the trip by Chrysler minivan and stayed at inexpensive hotels, like Holiday Inn.
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Bjorn Hanson, dean of New York University's Preston Robert Tisch Center for Hospitality, Tourism and Sports Management, says it may be in part because the U.S. has a greater number of budget hotels, from Comfort Inn to Econo Lodge.
The U.S. saw the rise of budget hotels coast to coast in the 1960s, as Comfort Inns, Motel 6, Days Inn and Super 8 hotels sprung up near major highway exits.
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.
HFS, based in Parsippany, New Jersey, has in recent years snapped up a variety of franchising businesses, among them Avis car-rentals, Super 8 motels, Days Inn and Ramada hotels, and Century 21 and Coldwell Banker property agencies.
At Holiday Inn Expresses and AmeriSuites hotels, at Residence Inns and Marriott Suites all across America, the final touches are being put on complimentary continental breakfast spreads.
Steimle said the property has won several internal awards from Holiday Inn's owner, InterContinental Hotels Group.
One is InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG), owner of Holiday Inn and other global brands.
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Fairfield Inn will do so at over 500 hotels by the end of this year.
Britain's InterContinental Hotels, meanwhile, has negotiated licences for two Holiday Inn Express sites in provincial capitals.
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And several Boston hotels, including the Saunders Hotel, Lenox Hotel, and Ramada Inn Boston, are using recycled vegetable oil to fuel their laundry trucks and hotel shuttle buses.
Since the Hilton Garden Inn opened in 2009, hospitality firm Lodging Econometrics recorded seven new hotels throughout Kings County in 2010.
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.
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