The development pipeline in Europe involves nearly 30 projects, including the Renaissance Moscow Monarch Center Hotel (2010), the Courtyard by Marriott Budapest (2010) and the JW Marriott Hotel Ankara (2010).

Early check-in, late check-out, two new restaurant concepts and five room designs further define Radisson's expansion.

As part of this strategy, the Radisson brand will be tiered across the upper upscale and upscale segments. Radisson Blu will be applied to the upper upscale segment and Radisson Green will be applied to the upscale segment.

Beginning in 2010, the brand will open roughly 50 new hotels over three years in 15 countries. This represents an investment of more than $4 billion, and follows Starwood's recent revitalization of the Sheraton brand.

Franchise company will enter Poland with six new Choice brand hotels.

Carlson opened 92 properties under its five brands worldwide during the year with systemwide sales of $5.8 billion. The company also signed 66 new properties, adding to its contracted pipeline of 249 properties.

The two properties are a Budgetel Inn & Suites with 70 rooms and suites, plus a café and meeting rooms and an America's Best Inn & Suites with 90 rooms and suites, plus a restaurant and meeting rooms. Both hotels are located in Yiwu.

The company has 524 new hotels across 11 brands representing 43,991 guestrooms in 45 states and 15 countries spanning five continents.

Roughly 70 percent of the new hotels will be outside of North America, with the majority in Asia Pacific. Starwood's upper-upscale and luxury brands are leading the charge, representing more than 60 percent of the new openings.

Franchisors say they will continue to enhance brand clarity, improve customer satisfaction, gain consumer market share and focus on converting properties to their brand family.