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Choice Hotels Rewards Members with a Chance to Win a Trip to Hawaii While Earning Triple Points This Winter (PR Newswire)</title><link>http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/story/*http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/091210/ph23574.html?.v=1</link><description>Choice Hotels is giving its Choice Privileges members the chance to say &quot;Aloha&quot; this winter with a Hawaiian vacation giveaway! This promotion will allow Choice Privileges members to register to earn triple Choice Privileges rewards points or triple Airline Rewards, starting with their second qualifying stay.* Choice Hotels guests who register for the promotion will also be entered for a chance to win a seven-day, six-night dream vacation to Hawaii.**</description><guid isPermaLink="false">yahoo_finance/3591583311</guid><pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:30:00 Etc/GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Marriott Takes Fairfield Inn &amp; Suites Brand International, Will Add Record 36 Hotels In Mexico, Tripling Presence There (PR Newswire)</title><link>http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/story/*http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/091209/ne23656.html?.v=1</link><description>Marriott International today bolstered its international hotel development strategy in the Americas by signing an agreement with Pulso Hotelero of Mexico to develop 36 Fairfield Inns in Mexico, which will triple the company&apos;s lodging portfolio there.</description><guid isPermaLink="false">yahoo_finance/2128275683</guid><pubDate>Wed, 9 Dec 2009 21:26:00 Etc/GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Marriott Provides Better Guidance (Zacks.com)</title><link>http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/story/*http://biz.yahoo.com/zacks/091209/28127.html?.v=1</link><description></description><guid isPermaLink="false">yahoo_finance/538823441</guid><pubDate>Wed, 9 Dec 2009 21:03:34 Etc/GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>[audio] Red Roof CEO: Vacationers coming back [2.0 min] (at MarketWatch)</title><link>http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/external/cbsm/rss/SIG=11b2pb2sn/*http%3A//www.marketwatch.com/story/story/?guid=%7BBE4401FA%2DD7F5%2D4301%2DB839%2D3BF0010E8418%7D&amp;siteid=yhoo</link><description>Business travel is still in a slump, but Red Roof CEO Andy Alexander says his hotels are seeing vacationers return. 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