{"id":22590,"date":"2020-04-08T17:06:30","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T17:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/uncategorized\/hotel-franchise-contract-agreement\/"},"modified":"2025-02-03T15:38:54","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T15:38:54","slug":"hotel-franchise-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/hotel-franchise-contract","title":{"rendered":"Hotel Franchise Contract \/ Agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is the meaning \/ definition of Hotel Franchise Contract \/ Agreement?<\/p>\n<p>A contract between a <a class=\"glossary-only-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/hotel\">hotel<\/a> owner and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.veturihotels.com\/\">hotel franchise company<\/a> where the franchise company allows a hotel to use its services and name for a fee. Services a <a class=\"glossary-only-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/franchisor\">franchisor<\/a> can provide are for example national advertising, reservation system, employee training and other benefits depending on the hotel franchise company. A <a class=\"glossary-only-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/hotel-franchise\">hotel franchise<\/a> contract usually lasts 20 years, but depending on the hotel and franchise company the contract length can from 5 years to, in rare cases, 100 years.<\/p>\n<p>This contract also requires that the hotel meets certain standards or admits to certain rules &amp; regulations in order to keep the contract. Examples, therefore, are that the franchisor requires the hotel to purchase furniture from its approved suppliers, the use of the company\u2019s <a class=\"glossary-only-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/pms-property-management-system\">property management<\/a> <a class=\"glossary-only-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/pms-property-management-system\">system<\/a>, franchise inspections for quality of facilities, upgrades to the hotel every few years or decades and other mandatory requests by the franchise company.<\/p>\n<p><strong>See also:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><a class=\"glossary-only-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/hotel-franchise\">Hotel Franchise<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><a href=\"\/en\/glossary\/virtual-hotel-operator-chain\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Virtual <\/span><\/a><a class=\"glossary-only-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/hotel-operator\">Hotel Operator<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><a class=\"glossary-only-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/soft-brand\">Hotel Soft Brand<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><a class=\"glossary-only-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/hotel-brand\">Hotel Brand<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><a class=\"glossary-only-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/independent-hotel\">Independent Hotel<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><a class=\"glossary-only-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/chain-hotel\">Chain Hotel<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><a class=\"glossary-only-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/hotel-chain\">Hotel Chain<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><a class=\"glossary-only-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/hotel-operator\">Hotel Operator<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the meaning \/ definition of Hotel Franchise Contract  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-h","category-glossary"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - 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