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Well, I'm heading back to Texas, to San Antonio. That's where our General Managers for our Courtyard, SpringHill Suites and Fairfield Inn brands are meeting. There's a lot going on with each of these brands. Courtyard is rapidly expanding everywhere with a new prototype in Europe. We'll soon double the number there to about 100 hotels in the next 5 years. Fairfield Inn has been reinvigorated and the results have been terrific with higher guest satisfaction and better financial performance. A lot of you, I know, have stayed at Courtyard with its 700 hotels and Fairfield with their 500, but today I want to talk to you about SpringHill Suites and its guests.
I'm often asked, "How can you have so many different brands? Isn't that a lot to manage, and doesn't it inspire a lot of confusion?" Well, not really, because every brand caters to a different kind of traveler. Now, the
