Urgo Hotels is an award-winning company recognized among the top 100 hotel developers by Hotel Business Magazine. Since 1981, Urgo Hotels has specialized in building, developing, owning and operating hotels across a wide range of brands. Urgo Hotels also offers a solid track record in asset management. Urgo Hotels and its affiliates presently have ownership interests in and/or operate 18 hotels within the United States, Canada, and the Caribbean.As hotel developers, investment advisors, and managers, the principals of Urgo Hotels have shown a unique ability to create and arrive at solutions for their clients and partners. Over the years, Urgo Hotels and its predecessor firm - Urgo Butts & Company - have acted as counsel and advisors to a number of institutional, development, and operating clients including, among others, the Marriott Corporation, Hilton International Hotels, Howard Johnson, Hyatt Corporation, The World Bank, IMF, OAS, City of Oakland, City of Quincy Massachusetts, the TraMMel Crow organization, Lerner Enterprises, Americana Hotels and Realty Corporation, Hanover Trust Company, The Bank of New York, The Riggs National Bank of Washington, D.C., Chemical Bank, The Travelers Insurance Company and Merrill Lynch. Airline clients have included Northwest, Pan Am, TWA, Aer Lingus, BWIA and LIAT.

Vantage Hospitality Group's partners had a vision to develop a different hotel brand affiliation model - one that offered a better Return on Investment and more world-class services and resources, and put the decision-making power in the hands of its hotel owners. In 1999, this vision became reality with the launch of Americas Best Value Inn.Vantage's innovative Freestyle® Brand Affiliation model allows our members the opportunity to be "In Business for Themselves, Not by Themselves." This concept has revolutionized the hospitality industry, as the award-winning Americas Best Value Inn brand has broken all growth records by expanding from two to 900 hotels in 10 years. The Lexington Collection was added in 2007, premiering as the only membership brand in the upper-mid and upscale lodging segments. Hotel owners worldwide have embraced the Freestyle® concept and Vantage's brands, with rapid expansion also taking place in Canada, China, India, and the Middle East.Today, Vantage Hospitality Group is the 10th largest hotel company worldwide and has grown to include a broad spectrum of hospitality-related ventures. And the original Vantage partners are still overseeing their respective divisions, offering members stability and cohesiveness that have served as a foundation for their brands' growth.

Chairman and CEO Michael Harrell founded the Houston-based Vista Host, Inc. in 1977. Vista Host company operates some 25 mid-priced hotel properties in about a dozen states (mostly Southern) under such banners as Comfort Suites, Homewood Suites, Hampton Inn, and Fairfield Inn & Suites. Vista opens limited-service hotels in highly trafficked tourist areas and consistently wins customer service awards. Vista Host company, which prides itself on using the latest technological innovations, offers free wireless Internet access in most of its properties.

Westmont Hospitality Group was founded in 1975. What started with a single hotel in North America, has grown to become one of the largest privately-held hospitality organizations in the world. Throughout the years, Westmont has had an ownership interest in and operated over 1,100 hotels. Currently this stands at over 500 hotels across three continents. Westmont has formed strategic alliances with many of the world's largest hotel brands. These include Fairmont, InterContinental Hotels Group, Hilton, Accor, Starwood, Wyndham, Choice Hotels, Renaissance, Radisson and Best Western. The company is one of the largest franchisees and co-owners of IHG hotels and Hilton hotels worldwide. Westmont has a very diversified portfolio ranging from budget and aparthotels to mid-market business and large conference hotels to boutique hotels and luxury resorts.

WHI was founded in 1958 to develop Holiday Inn properties. The independent hotel management company oversees about 30 properties across the US, with a portfolio of brands such as Marriott, Doubletree, and Holiday Inn (from InterContinental Hotels Group). Its clients are mainly full-service hotels, but also include all-suite, conference center, extended-stay, and resort facilities. Its management services include financial services, operations (recruiting, training, and labor management), and sales and marketing. It also has a division devoted to construction and project management.

Wyndham Worldwide Corporation is a hospitality company, which offers individual consumers and business customers a range of hospitality products and services across various accommodation alternatives and price ranges through its portfolio of brands. The Company operates in three segments: Lodging, Vacation Exchange and Rentals and Vacation Ownership. Lodging franchises hotels in the upscale, midscale, economy and extended stay segments of the lodging industry and provides hotel management services for full-service hotels globally. Vacation Exchange and Rentals provides vacation exchange products and services to owners of intervals of vacation ownership interests (VOIs) and markets vacation rental properties primarily on behalf of independent owners. Vacation Ownership develops, markets and sells VOIs to individual consumers, provides consumer financing in connection with the sale of VOIs and provides property management services at resorts.

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