Earlier named as Quality Courts United, the hotel chain Choice Hotel International was founded in the year 1939 in Maryland, United States. Its headquarters is at Silver Spring in Maryland. It has the spread of about 4000 brands – Quality Inn, Choice Hotels, Comfort Inn, Comfort Suites, Quality, Sleep Inn, Clarion, MainStay Suites, Suburban Extended Stay Hotel, Econo Lodge and Rodeway Inn to name a few. It has more than 6,200 hotels and more than 500,000 rooms in more than 30 countries and territories. This company's total revenue is nearly 642 million US dollars. They claim to have a rich history of innovation as they were the first in the industry to introduce guarantee reservations, telephones inn every room, 24-hours desk service and much more.