PARSIPPANY, N.J. / Aug. 8, 2001--Wingate Inns International, Inc. is now officially international.

Superior Lodging Corp. opened the first non-USA-based franchised Wingate Inn® hotel. The four-story, 103-room hotel, located on 400 Midpark Way SE in Calgary, Canada, features 30 extra large suites, an indoor pool and water slide, free guestroom high-speed Internet access via Ethernet card-equipped laptop computers, and a variety of other guest-friendly amenities.

"To open our first international property in only our fifth year of existence is an outstanding achievement for the brand, as well as for our franchisee Marc Staniloff," says Keith J. Pierce, president and CEO of Wingate Inns International. "We've been growing rapidly in the United States since we opened our first hotel in 1996, and this opening in Calgary just gets the ball rolling on our international development. In addition to Marc planning to build nine new Wingate Inn hotels in Canada over the next nine years, we'd like to see additional international development in places such as South America, Europe and the Philippines."

Business and leisure travelers to the new Wingate Inn hotel in Calgary will have the best of both worlds as the hotel is near corporate offices for Staples, Carolina Homes, Colgate-Palmolive and DaimlerChrysler Financial Services. Leisure attractions are the Calgary Zoo, Calgary Tower, Chinook Center Mall, Glenbow Museum, Stampede Park/SaddleDome, Southcenter Mall and Canada Olympic Park.

As a part of the Wingate Inn chain, this franchised Wingate Inn hotel features 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 can 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 is rentable on a half-day and full day basis.

The hotel also features 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. Guests can also benefit from larger-than-average guestrooms (12' x 28'), an expanded continental breakfast, a whirlpool, exercise facilities, free accommodations for children 17 and under accompanied by adults, the Wingate Inn 100% guest satisfaction guarantee and in-room safes, coffee makers, hair dryers, refrigerators and ironing boards with irons. Room rates at the Wingate Inn hotel in Calgary start at $85 (U.S. dollars) and suite rates begin at $118 (U.S. dollars).

Wingate Inns 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 with Wingate Inns International, Inc. Reservations can be made by calling Wingate Inns' toll-free reservation center at 1.800.228.1000 or through the company's website at www.wingateinns.com. Wingate Inns International, Inc. is a subsidiary of Cendant Corporation CD.