Last year Choice Hotels International opened nearly 40 new properties in Europe.
The largest expansion was seen in France, where 25 new properties opened, including 16 Comfort Hotels, eight Quality hotels and 1 Clarion-branded property.
The US-based hotel group also opened new hotels in Poland, Germany, Norway, Italy and the Czech Republic.
Duncan Berry, Choice Hotels’ UK CEO, said he hopes the group will expand further in 2011 with more franchised hotels.
He said: “We are interested in working with individual hoteliers and independent hotel groups who want to benefit from a global brand and the worldwide infrastructure that Choice Hotels International provides.”
To read more about Choice Hotels plans, click here for ABTN’s interview for Hotelier of the Week with UK director of sales Brian Garvan.
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