He showed us what he wants to do with upgrading the training facilities and that shows he's got the players at heart because he's listening to their concerns.

Hotel ownership is an attractive investment for entrepreneurs, but those not versed in the lodging industry may not realize the opportunity. Owners of restaurants, auto dealerships, and convenience stores have the business acumen and financial capacity to own and operate hotels, and we can show them how to transfer and utilize their unique skill sets to hotel ownership.

I thought we had it. I wanted to win, but I feel we took this a long way. We took it farther than this school has ever been.

We should have never gotten down that far in the first place. That just gave us more intensity to come back.

It's a different type of utilization. If you're able to get a lemans series, it brings 15,000 people a day for four days. You've just doubled what you would do with the dirt track over the year.

At Choice Hotels we're committed to expanding and diversifying our franchisee base. Truly successful companies continuously find ways to grow and evolve and we're doing just that by educating minority entrepreneurs about hotel franchising and the power of the Choice Hotels system.