Note 1 - Nature of Operations and Basis of Presentation

9 Months Ended

Oct. 31, 2012

Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements Disclosure [Text Block]

1. NATURE OF OPERATIONS AND BASIS OF PRESENTATION

InnSuites Hospitality Trust (the “Trust”) is an unincorporated real estate investment trust in the State of Ohio that at October 31, 2012 wholly-owned one InnSuites® hotel located in Yuma, Arizona and together with its affiliate RRF Limited Partnership, a Delaware limited partnership (the “Partnership”), wholly-owned another InnSuites® hotel located in Tucson, Arizona, had a 56.05% interest in another hotel located in Tucson, Arizona  and had a 65.19% interest in InnSuites® hotel located in Ontario, California.  The Trust also owned a direct 50.13% interest in one InnSuites® hotel located in Albuquerque, New Mexico (all five InnSuites® hotels are hereinafter referred to as the “Hotels”).  The Trust is the sole general partner in the Partnership. The Hotels are managed by InnSuites Hotels, Inc. (“InnSuites Hotels”), which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Trust.

InnSuites Hotels holds management contracts under which it provides hotel management services to the Hotels, as well as three hotels with an aggregate of 439 suites owned by affiliates of James F. Wirth (“Mr. Wirth”), the Trust’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. Under the management agreements, InnSuites manages the hotels’ daily operations, for which it receives a percentage of revenue from the hotels and an accounting fee. InnSuites Hotels also holds licensing agreements and the “InnSuites” trademarks and provides licensing services to the Hotels, as well as the three hotels owned by affiliates of Mr. Wirth with an aggregate of 439 suites.   Under the licensing agreements with affiliates of Mr. Wirth, InnSuites Hotels receives a fixed monthly fee based on the number of units in the hotel properties in exchange for use of the “InnSuites” trademark.Additionally, InnSuites Hotels provides trademark and reservation services to 58 unrelated hotel properties. Under these licensing agreements with unrelated properties, InnSuites Hotels receives variable monthly fees based on the number of reservations processed for the hotel property and, in certain cases, the gross room revenue of the hotel property.

Effective February 1, 2012, the management agreements were amended for the Hotels and the three hotels owned by affiliates of Mr. Wirth. Under the new agreements, the employees are no longer employees of InnSuites Hotels and are now employees of the hotels at which they work. As such, each hotel is responsible for their employee’s payroll and payroll reimbursements are no longer required. The primary purpose for the amendment was to streamline the administrative and accounting functions between the management company, the Hotels and the three hotels owned by affiliates of Mr. Wirth, which resulted in a more efficient operation.

The Trust’s general partnership interest in the Partnership was 72.04% and 71.98% as of October 31 and January 31, 2012, respectively.  The weighted average for the nine months ended October 31, 2012 and 2011 was 72.03% and 71.5%, respectively.

PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT

The Partnership Agreement of the Partnership (the “Partnership Agreement”) provides for the issuance of two classes of limited partnership units, Class A and Class B. Such classes are identical in all respects, except that each Class A limited partnership unit is convertible into a like number of Shares of Beneficial Interest of the Trust at any time at the option of the limited partner. A total of 286,034 and 293,665 Class A limited partnership units were issued and outstanding as of October 31 and January 31, 2012, respectively. Additionally, as of October 31 and January 31, 2012, a total of 3,407,938 Class B limited partnership units were held by Mr. Wirth and his affiliates, in lieu of the issuance of Class A limited partnership units. Each Class B limited partnership unit is identical to Class A limited partnership units in all respects, except that Class B limited partnership units are convertible only with the approval of the Board of Trustees of the Trust, in its sole discretion. If all of the Class A and B limited partnership units were converted, the limited partners in the Partnership would receive 3,693,972 Shares of Beneficial Interest of the Trust as of October 31, 2012. The Trust held 9,517,545 and 9,509,914 General Partner Units as of October 31 and January 31, 2012, respectively.

BASIS OF PRESENTATION

The financial statements of the Partnership, InnSuites Hotels and Yuma Hospitality LP, are consolidated with the Trust, and all significant intercompany transactions and balances have been eliminated.

These consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“GAAP”) for interim financial information and with the instructions for Form 10-Q and Article 8 of Regulation S-X. Accordingly, they do not include all of the information and footnotes required by GAAP for complete consolidated financial statements. In the opinion of management, all adjustments (consisting of normal recurring accruals) considered necessary for a fair presentation have been included. Operating results for the nine-month period ended October 31, 2012 are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be expected for the year ending January 31, 2013. For further information, refer to the consolidated financial statements and footnotes thereto included in the Trust’s Annual Report on Form 10-K as of and for the year ended January 31, 2012.