Other competitors in the services sector include: Ashford Hospitality Trust, Inc. (AHT), MHI Hospitality (MDH), and American Assets Trust, Inc (AAT).

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Adding to the value-investor type strategy MDH pursues in building its portfolio, it should benefit from improving trends in economic activity and improved corporate profitability and cash positions, which ought to facilitate more business trips and conferences.

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Besides improving demand, MDH should benefit from the fact that there has been a slowing of new supply in the upper segments of the market in which MDH competes, and by the fact that well-priced acquisition opportunities should arise as weaker operators find it harder to refinance debt that comes due.

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