WINGATE INNS LAUNCHES 'SWEET SUMMER RATES @ WINGATE' PROMOTION (5/01)

Wingate Inns International, Inc. is gearing up for the busy summer leisure travel season by launching its "Sweet Summer Rates @ Wingate" promotion, which features rates staring from $69 at participating Wingate Inn^® hotels from May 25 through September 3.

"While the Wingate Inn chain has built a fundamental reputation as a brand for business travelers, we also offer a slew of value-added amenities for leisure travelers," explains Lisa Theodore, vice president of marketing for Wingate Inns International. "The goal of the 'Sweet Summer Rates @ Wingate' promotion is to entice leisure trial of the chain in an effort to show consumers how great the hotels are for summer travel or anytime leisure travel."

Every Wingate Inn hotel is packed with valuable amenities for summer travel. For consumers who decide to take advantage of the summer rates beginning at $69, here are the leisure amenities they'll find at every Wingate Inn hotel:

• Free deluxe expanded continental breakfast buffet (cost saver for families)
• Family-friendly larger-than-average guestrooms (12' x 28')
• Free accommodations for children 18 and under accompanied by adults
• Swimming pools at most Wingate Inn hotels
• In-room entertainment system featuring pay-per-view movies and Nintendo 64 games
• Free unlimited high-speed Internet access via personal Ethernet card-equipped laptop computers
• Fitness room with whirlpool
• Free wireless phones that can be checked out at the front desk and used on the hotel grounds for incoming/outgoing calls
• Wingate Inn 100% gest satisfaction guarantee

"Wingate Inn hotels are a great value considering all the complimentary leisure and business amenities, such as a business center with free faxing, copying and printing, that come along with the inexpensive rates," notes Theodore. "With more and more people bringing families on business trips, Wingate Inn hotels offer the perfect combination of amenities to allow people to quickly complete work and still spend plenty of leisure time with the family."

Wingate Inns International is an all-new construction hotel chain that opened its first franchised hotel in July 1996. Its focused service, upper mid-market franchised hotels feature sophisticated, consumer-based enabling technology and comfortable, oversized rooms that were created in response to business travelers' needs. All Wingate Inn hotels are independently owned and operated under Franchise agreements.