SAO PAULO Choice Atlantica Hotels has signed contracts to manage five hotels in Brazil. The contracts represent 524 guestrooms and a U.S. investment of $34 million.
The first new hotel, a 69-room Quality Inn, is scheduled to open in June. It will be followed in March 2002 by the 90-room Comfort Suites Vitoria. The Comfort Hotel Londrina, a 123-unit property, is slated to open in early 2003, followed by the 114-room Comfort Hotel Uberlandia in July 2003, and the 128-room Comfort Hotel Benedito Calixto in April 2004.
Choice Atlantica executives said the company is adding one hotel every 20 days, and on average is signing two management contracts per month. With these five contracts, the company has 52 hotels under construction in South America and 12 hotels under operation. (5/3/01)