At the 7th Annual Million Dollar Club Celebration recently held at Minot's new 126-unit Sleep Inn, Inn & Suites, Chuck Ledsinger, President and CEO of Choice Hotels International, and other key Choice executives honored 64 sales representatives of Minot's Million Dollar Club.

The Million Dollar Club is a recognized program for sales representatives who produce at least $1 million in revenue within a calendar year. Sales representative Christa Bjordahl was the Million Dollar Club's top revenue producer. Phyllis Harmon was honored as Minot's Employee of the Year and Bryce Schroeder, a group sales specialist, was recognized as having the highest revenue within Minot's group sales department. Bjordahl, Harmon and Schroeder all live in Minot.

In total, the 64 members of Minot's Million Dollar Club produced almost $74.5 million in revenue for calendar year 2003.

The Minot Reservations Call Center, located at 1625 20th Avenue S.E., is one of two U.S. Choice "mega" reservation centers that together receive an average of 32,000 calls per day and account for 40% of all Choice worldwide reservations. The Minot Reservations Call Center, which celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2001, employs almost 400 associates.

The Sleep Inn, Inn & Suites located at 2400 10th St., S.W. in Minot has a 24,000 square foot water park and is attached to the 750,000 square foot Dakota Square Regional Mall. The hotel is owned by Minot Lodging Expo, LLC.

Choice Hotels International (NYSE:CHH) is one of the world's largest lodging franchisors marketing more than 5,000 hotels open or under development in 42 countries and territories under the Comfort Inn, Comfort Suites, Quality, Clarion, Sleep Inn, Econo Lodge, MainStay Suites and Rodeway Inn brand names. To make a reservation at any Choice brand hotel worldwide, contact Choice Hotels' toll-free reservation service at 1-800-4CHOICE or visit the company's website, www.choicehotels.com.

Choice Hotels, Choice Hotels International, Comfort Inn, Comfort Suites, Quality, Sleep Inn, Clarion, MainStay Suites, Econo Lodge, Rodeway Inn and 1-800-4CHOICE are proprietary trademarks and service marks of Choice Hotels International, Inc.

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