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Represents the amount of royalty fee under the franchise agreement expressed as a percentage of hotel room revenue.

No definition available.

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Represents the term of franchise agreements.

No definition available.

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Costs incurred that are directly related to generating franchise revenues from franchised outlets.

Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 952
-SubTopic 10
-Section 45
-Paragraph 1
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=109207822&loc=SL109207831-218603

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

No definition available.