Choice Hotels News

Choice Hotels International inks partnership with Maplewood Hotels & Resorts
Choice Hotels International, one of the world’s largest hotel companies, today announced a partnership with Maplewood Hotels & Resorts to develop new Cambria Suites properties in Canada. Maplewood is a joint venture between Driftwood Hospitality Management and Pacrim Hospitality Services Inc.

Choice Hotels adds two more hotels to UK portfolio
Choice Hotels Europe, the company behind the Comfort, Quality and Clarion brands in Europe and part of Choice Hotels International, one of the largest lodging franchisors in the world, today announced that two more properties have been added to its network in Manchester and Richmond.

Choice Hotels upgrades choiceADVANTAGE
Choice Hotels International, Inc. the company behind the Comfort, Quality and Clarion brands, today announced that it has deployed a new, streamlined interface for choiceADVANTAGE, its cloud-based hotel property management system (PMS), and has successfully installed the PMS so far in over 30% of its UK hotel network.

Choice Hotels adds five hotels in UK and Ireland
Choice Hotels Europe has added five more properties, located in The Midlands and Hampshire in England and in Dublin, Ireland, have been added to its portfolio.

Ascend Hotel Collection continues global expansion
Choice Hotels’ Ascend Hotel Collection is stepping up its global expansion with the announcement that two boutique hotels have joined the portfolio. These properties are the gibson hotel, Dublin, Ireland and Lindenwarrah at Milawa, Australia. The announcement was made to industry insiders at the 19th annual meeting of The Lodging Conference in Phoenix, Arizona.

Choice Hotels breaks ground on first Cambria Suites in Arizona
Choice Hotels and O’Reilly Hospitality are expanding the upscale hotel brand, Cambria Suites, into the Phoenix market. The four-story, 121-room Cambria Suites Phoenix-Desert Ridge is the first of the brand in Arizona, and is the second of two Cambria Suites to be developed and managed by O’Reilly Hospitality Management.

Choice Hotels Europe launches property-level websites
Choice Hotels Europe announced today that it has entered into a relationship with buuteeq, a leading cloud-based digital marketing provider for lodging operators that will enable Choice Hotels franchisees throughout Europe to create and manage their own property-level websites with direct booking capabilities

Choice Hotels Europe launches 2014 brochure
Choice Hotels Europe, the company behind the Comfort, Quality and Clarion brands in Europe and part of Choice Hotels International, today announced the launch of its new 2014 Pan-European Groups and Tours Brochure.

Choice Hotels in mobile focus
Choice Hotels has unveiled a new tool which enables travellers to make reservations using their mobile devices. RapidBook streamlines the search and checkout functions by leveraging the preferences and other information customers opt to add to their online profile.

Choice Hotels expands hotel portfolio in Europe
Choice Hotels Europe revealed it has opened nine European properties so far in 2013 in the UK and France with a further eight scheduled to open in Q3 in the UK, France, Germany and the Czech Republic.

Choice Hotels International announces new vice president of brand strategy
Choice Hotels International, Inc, one of the world’s largest hotel companies, today announced that Anne Engelking Smith has joined the company as Vice President of Brand Strategy. Smith joins the company from AARP where she was responsible for overseeing the AARP brand in commercial marketing and driving membership growth including the organization’s multicultural membership base.

Choice Hotels International enters joint venture to develop multiple Cambria Suites
Choice Hotels International, one of the world’s largest hotel companies, today announced that it has entered into a joint venture with private investment firm Fillmore Capital Partners, LLC and its affiliates to develop multiple Cambria Suites hotel properties, adding to the upscale brand’s growing clout. This marks the brand’s first institutional investor, underscoring the confidence developers and Choice Hotels have already expressed for the emerging brand’s performance potential.