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Another Hotel Chain Goes Smoke-Free on May 1st 2007

Silver Spring, Md. (March 12, 2007) - Choice Hotels
International (NYSE: CHH) announced today that its Comfort
Suites brand will become 100 percent smoke free May 1,
2007. All 433 domestic Comfort Suites including public areas
will be non-smoking. This move extends Choice Hotels legacy
as an industry pioneer in non-smoking accommodations, as
in 1984, Choice became the first hotel company to include
non-smoking rooms in every one of its properties worldwide.

The Comfort Suites brand provides a safe, comfortable and
enjoyable environment for its guests and this policy is a
direct outgrowth of consumers' preferences for a smoke-free
hotel experience. Both Comfort Suites guests and Comfort
Suites hotel owners expressed support for the move to a
smoke-free brand.

"The extensive survey research we conducted with Comfort
Suites guests and our franchisees strongly indicated that
going smoke-free was the right decision for our brand," said
Janna Morrison, division president of Choice Hotels. "More
and more information is becoming available on the hazards
of second-hand smoke -- that information is undoubtedly
influencing where our guests stay."

Ten percent of Comfort Suites hotels are already smoke-free.
The owners of those Comfort Suites hotels report being
positively affected by the smoke-free switch.