Hotel Franchising
Our Businesses
Wyndham Hotel Group franchises hotels and provides property management services. We are:
- The World's largest lodging franchisor, as measured by the number of franchised hotels.
- A franchisor of 10 lodging brands that include economy, middle scale and upscale accommodations.
- A lodging business with over 6,500 franchised hotels. This represents approximately 550,000 rooms on six continents – constituting more than 10% of the U.S. hotel room inventory.
- The marketer of the Wyndham Rewards SM loyalty program, the lodging industry's largest loyalty program as measured by the number of participating hotels.
Our Industry
The $124 billion domestic lodging industry is a fast growing part of the hospitality industry. Generally divided into four segments, the domestic lodging industry includes luxury, upscale, middle scale and economy accommodations. In 2004, the U.S. lodging industry boasted approximately 47,600 properties, representing more than 4.4 million guest rooms – 3 million of these rooms were in franchised hotels and 1.4 million rooms were in independent hotels.
According to PricewaterhouseCoopers' forecast, the U.S. lodging industry is expected to gross $25.6 billion in pretax profits in 2006 and $30.3 billion in 2007.
