Choice Hotels International (NYSE: CHH) is one of the world's largest hotel companies, with more than 6,000 hotels, representing more than 485,000 rooms, located in more than 35 other countries and territories. Choice-brand hotels range from limited service to full service, economy, mid-priced, and upscale hotels, which cater to both leisure and business travelers. The company's 10 brands include Comfort Inn, Comfort Suites, Quality, Sleep Inn, Clarion, Cambria Suites, MainStay Suites, Suburban Extended Stay Hotel, Econo Lodge and Rodeway Inn. In addition, via its Ascend Collection membership program, travelers in the United States, Canada and the Caribbean have upscale lodging options at historic, boutique and unique hotels. The company's headquarters are in Silver Spring, Maryland.

Originally formed in 1939 as a membership organization known as Quality Courts United, Choice has pioneered a number of firsts for the industry. Consider the following Choice-led innovations, which have helped shape the face of the industry as we know it today:
- First to offer a brand name and create a hotel chain.
- First to establish brand and quality standards.
- First to provide travel directories.
- First to offer 24-hour a day front desk service and in-room telephones.
- First to guarantee reservations.
- First to establish hotel segments -- with hotels designated as luxury, mid-priced or budget brands.
- First to offer 24-hour a day reservations and a toll-free reservations line.
- First to offer a global marketing/reservations system.
- First to offer non-smoking rooms in every hotel.
- First to provide online reservations via the World Wide Web.
- First to launch a global iPhone application.

Over the past seven decades, Choice has solidified its position as an industry leader with a commitment to serve the traveling public by offering high-standardaccommodations at an affordable price, and to providing an outstanding return on investment for its franchisees.