Who owns Comfort Inn?
Comfort Inn is owned by Choice Hotels (the United States, NYSE: CHH).[1]
Evidence: Choice Hotels International, Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-02-19, SEC EDGAR, 19 February 2026. Verified from filings; last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Choice Hotels International, Inc. verified
- Owner HQ
- 🇺🇸 United States, North Bethesda
- Origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Category
- Travel & transport › Hotels › Budget & midscale hotels
- Parent ticker
- NYSE: CHH
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Comfort Inn
Comfort, which covers Comfort Inn and Comfort Suites, is the largest brand in the Choice Hotels portfolio by hotel count. The FY2025 Form 10-K reports 2,141 Comfort hotels at 31 December 2025 and classes the brand in the upper midscale segment of its chain scale table, alongside Sleep Inn and Country Inn & Suites.
How often Choice Hotels names Comfort Inn in its annual report
A plain count of the times the name appears in the text of each annual report, not counting the start of a sentence. A brand that an owner writes about more is usually one it treats as central. The brand is named more often than it was three years earlier.
Ownership timeline of Comfort Inn
- Current owner Choice Hotels [1] verified
Where Comfort Inn sits in Choice Hotels
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Choice Hotels
Choice Hotels controls 13 brands on Brandtree, 13 of them in travel & transport.
Also in travel & transport
Other brands in budget & midscale hotels, and who owns them
The 37 brands in budget & midscale hotels on Brandtree belong to 12 owners. The largest is Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, with 8; Choice Hotels has 5.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Elan Hotel | H World | 🇨🇳 China |
| Days Inn | Wyndham Hotels & Resorts | 🇺🇸 United States |
| 7 Days | Jin Jiang Hotels | 🇨🇳 China |
| Fiesta Inn | Grupo Posadas | 🇲🇽 Mexico |
| Courtyard by Marriott | Marriott | 🇺🇸 United States |
| ibis | Accor | 🇫🇷 France |
| First World Hotel | Genting | 🇲🇾 Malaysia |
| Hampton by Hilton | Hilton | 🇺🇸 United States |
About the owner: Choice Hotels
Choice Hotels is a publicly listed company headquartered in North Bethesda, United States. Brandtree records 13 brands under its control, and it is listed as NYSE: CHH.
Choice Hotels International is a hotel franchisor headquartered in North Bethesda, Maryland, and incorporated in Delaware in 1980. Its FY2025 Form 10-K lists brands in the economy, midscale, upscale, upper upscale and extended-stay segments. It acquired the legacy Radisson brands for the Americas on 11 August 2022; those brands (Radisson, Radisson Blu, Country Inn & Suites by Radisson and others) are left out here because the filing gives no origin for them.
Choice Hotels: full profile, brands and acquisition history →
🇺🇸 Comfort Inn and other American brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 2,399 brands that began in the United States. 461 of them (19%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Comfort Inn is not one of them.
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Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Comfort Inn?
The parent company of Comfort Inn is Choice Hotels, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United States.
Is Comfort Inn American?
Yes. Comfort Inn originated in the United States and its owner, Choice Hotels, is also headquartered in the United States.
Is Comfort Inn still owned by Choice Hotels?
Yes. As of 4 October 2026, Comfort Inn is still owned by Choice Hotels. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (1) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] Choice Hotels International, Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-02-19 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 10-K, published 19 February 2026; retrieved 4 October 2026.
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