Business Acquisition, Percentage of Voting Interests Sold

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Business Combinations, Number of Hotel

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Business Combinations, Number of Hotel Joint Ventures

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Percentage of voting equity interests acquired at the acquisition date in the business combination.

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Amount of consideration transferred, consisting of acquisition-date fair value of assets transferred by the acquirer, liabilities incurred by the acquirer, and equity interest issued by the acquirer.

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Aggregate cash proceeds received from a combination of transactions in which noncurrent assets are sold, which may include the sale of a business, an investment in an affiliate (including an equity method investee), property, plant and equipment and intangible assets. Excludes sales of trading, available-for-sale, and held-to-maturity securities.

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The carrying amount of investments in unconsolidated real estate and other joint ventures not separately presented. This includes direct and indirect investments.

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Detail information of subsequent event by type. User is expected to use existing line items from elsewhere in the taxonomy as the primary line items for this disclosure, which is further associated with dimension and member elements pertaining to a subsequent event.

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Subsequent Events (Details) $ in Thousands	Jul. 23, 2019 USD ($)	Jul. 22, 2019	Jun. 30, 2019 USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2018 USD ($)
Subsequent Event [Line Items]
Investments in unconsolidated entities			$ 108,843	$ 109,016
Cambria Hotel \| Five Hotel Joint Ventures
Subsequent Event [Line Items]
Investments in unconsolidated entities			$ 40,000
Subsequent Event
Subsequent Event [Line Items]
Business acquisition, percentage of voting interests acquired	60.00%
Business acquisition, percentage of voting interests sold	40.00%
Subsequent Event \| Four Hotels Joint Ventures
Subsequent Event [Line Items]
Business combinations, number of hotel joint ventures	4
Business combination, consideration transferred	$ 168,700
Subsequent Event \| One Hotels Joint Ventures
Subsequent Event [Line Items]
Business combinations, number of hotel joint ventures	1
Proceeds from sales of business	$ 8,900
Subsequent Event \| Five Hotel Joint Ventures
Subsequent Event [Line Items]
Business combinations, number of hotel joint ventures		5
Subsequent Event \| Cambria Hotel \| Five Hotel Joint Ventures
Subsequent Event [Line Items]
Business combinations, number of hotel		1