WINGATE INN® HOTEL OPENS IN OAKDALE, MN

Hotel Features Complimentary In-Room High Speed Internet Access

OAKDALE, MN (December 17, 1999) - Business and leisure travelers to the Oakdale area will benefit from free guestroom high-speed Internet access, thoughtful amenities, and a 100% stisfaction guarantee policy at the new three-story, 83-room franchised Wingate Inn hotel at 970 Helena Avenue North.

"The property is within minutes of numerous corporate offices for companies such as Eastman Kodak, Anderson Windows, Imation and Statefarm Insurance, making this property a great choice for business travelers in the area," says H. Dan Wright, managing member of developer U.S.P. Hotel Services, L.L.C. "The hotel's various high tech amenities, comfortable accommodations and close proximity to restaurants and a 20-screen movie theater also make this a prime hotel for leisure travelers. It's a great addition to the Oakdale area."

John Paul Nichols, president and CEO of Wingate Inns International Inc. adds, "Not only will guests benefit from the hotel's convenient location, but they will also appreciate its full range of high-tech amenities, top-notch service, and incredible value."

As a part of the Wingate Inns chain, this franchised Wingate Inn hotel will feature high speed Internet access connections in every guestroom, as well as in the meeting room and boardroom. Guests with a standard Ethernet card and RJ45 connector will be able to enjoy free access to the Internet from guestrooms at speeds up to 50 times faster than conventional 56K modems. Meeting room and boardroom high speed Internet access will be rentable on a half-day and full day basis.

The hotel will also feature standard amenities such as express, automated check-in and check-out, as well as in-room cordless phones and two-line desk phones with dataport, speaker, conference call and voice mail capabilities. Wingate Inn hotels also offer meeting rooms, 24-hour access to a business center with free usage of fax, printing and copying equipment, and wireless phones that can be checked out from the front desk and used anywhere within the hotel for both incoming and outgoing calls.

Although focused on providing efficient working conditions for the business traveler, Wingate Inn hotels also provide amenities for leisure travelers such as an in-room entertainment system featuring pay-per-view movies and Nintendo 64 games. They can also benefit from larger-than-average guestrooms (12' x 28'), an expanded continental breakfast, a whirlpool, exercise facilities, free accommodations for children 18 and under accompanied by adults, the Wingate Inn 100% gest satisfaction guarantee and in-room safes, coffee makers, hair dryers and ironing boards with irons. In addition to the standard amenities, the Wingate Inn hotel in Oakdale features two suites, a whirlpool, and exercise facilities.

Wingate Inns International, Inc. 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 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. Reservations can be made by calling Wingate Inns' toll-free reservation center at 1.800.228.1000. For more information on Wingate Inn hotels, visit the company's website at www.wingateinns.com. Wingate Inns International, Inc. is a subsidiary of Cendant Corporation (NYSE: CD).