Since the first Wingate Inn® hotel opened in 1996, the brand has been committed to "focused service," meaning that Wingate Inns is dedicated to providing services and amenities that cater specifically to today's traveler. In fact, Wingate Inns' commitment to service has gained Wingate Inns recognition by some of the most renowned experts around, including:

Zagat Survey, 2004 Top US Hotels, Resorts & Spas - For the second year in a row Wingate Inns earned a rating among the top hotel chains in Zagat Survey's 2004 Top US hotels, Resorts & Spas.* The annual survey is based on the appraisals of nearly 8,000 consumer reviewers. Endorsed by ASTA, Zagat Survey rates chains, hotel, resorts and spas. Wingate Inns was one of the very few mid-priced hotel chains recognized in the survey, which is dominated by upscale Inns, and luxury hotels and resorts.
Best in Class - Entrepreneur magazine named Wingate Inn as the "Best-Mid Priced Hotel Chain" in its April 2004 Issue.

Today, Wingate has 160 hotels open and under development, with over 13,000 guest rooms nationwide, with plans for accelerated growth over the next few years. In 2004, Wingate Inns entered the international market with its first hotels in Ireland, with 12 planned to open in the next five years.

Wingate Inns was the first hotel chain in the category to offer FREE high-speed Internet access in all guest rooms. Today, when many other hotel chains have just started to emulate Wingate's free high-speed Internet service, Wingate is once again leading the way. This year the brand launched FREE wireless Internet access across all of its hotels.

Wingate wants to become North America's favorite business hotel and is committed to a strategic growth plan, with a key focus on its center city initiative, which encourages development in high-profile corporate markets.

* Zagat Survey is the world's leading provider of consumer survey-based leisure guides, with over 200,000 surveyors.

As you consider opening your own Cendant hotel franchise, you're allying yourself with one of the biggest and best in the hotel industry. With more than 6,400 hotels on five continents, Cendant is the world's largest lodging franchisor. In fact, one out of every five economy and mid-priced room-nights in the United States is spent in a Cendant hotel. We achieve superior results by giving hotel franchisees like you the help they need to be in business for themselves, but not by themselves. Help such as powerful marketing and public relations programs, training and technical systems. We'll be with you every step of the way.

Cendant Corporation's Hotel Group, based in Parsippany, N.J., is the world's largest lodging franchisor with 6,358 hotels representing 511,610 rooms on five continents under the Super 8®, Days Inn®, Ramada®, Travelodge®, Howard Johnson®, Knights Inn®, Wingate Inn® and AmeriHost Inn® brands. Cendant's franchised hotels sell nearly one out of every five economy and mid-priced room-nights in the United States, and Cendant franchises 10.4 percent of the entire U.S. hotel room supply, according to Smith Travel Research and Cendant financial data. All hotels are individually owned and operated under franchise agreements with Cendant subsidiaries.