Hospitality Properties Trust Announces 2005 Dividend Allocation

January 9, 2006

NEWTON, Mass.--Hospitality Properties Trust (NYSE:HPT) today announced that the characterization of dividends for 2005 income tax reporting purposes is as follows:

                             Common Shares

                                                  Dividend Allocation
                                                       Per Share
                                                 ---------------------
Declaration   Record   Paid/Payable   Dividends    Ordinary  Return of
   Dates      Dates        Dates      Per Share     Income    Capital
----------- ---------- ------------- ----------- ------------ --------
  04/07/05   04/19/05      05/19/05     $0.7200      $0.6976  $0.0224
  07/07/05   07/21/05      08/18/05      0.7200       0.6976   0.0224
  10/06/05   10/21/05      11/17/05      0.7300       0.7073   0.0227
                                     ----------- ------------ --------
                          TOTALS:       $2.1700      $2.1025  $0.0675
                                     =========== ============ ========
                                         100.00%       96.89%    3.11%

HPT's common share CUSIP number is 44106M102. The Company did not incur any foreign taxes and had no capital gains. None of the common dividends paid by the Company were Qualified Dividends. In the prior year, the Company designated certain common dividends paid on January 31, 2005 as taxable to shareholders in 2004. As a result, the 2005 common dividend allocation reflects only three distributions. This information represents final income allocations.

                       Series B Preferred Shares

                                                  Dividend Allocation
                                                       Per Share
                                                 ---------------------
Declaration   Record    Paid/Payable  Dividends   Ordinary   Return of
   Dates       Dates       Dates      Per Share    Income     Capital
------------ --------- -------------- ---------- ----------- ---------
  03/01/05  03/31/05       04/15/05    $0.5547     $0.5547   $0.0000
  06/01/05  06/30/05       07/15/05     0.5547      0.5547    0.0000
  09/01/05  09/30/05       10/17/05     0.5547      0.5547    0.0000
                                     ---------- ----------- ---------
                         TOTALS:       $1.6641     $1.6641   $0.0000
                                     ========== =========== =========
                                        100.00%     100.00%     0.00%

HPT's Series B preferred share CUSIP number is 44106M409. The Company did not incur any foreign taxes and had no capital gains. None of the Series B preferred dividends paid by the Company were Qualified Dividends. In the prior year, the Company designated certain preferred dividends paid on January 18, 2005 as taxable to shareholders in 2004. As a result, the 2005 preferred dividend allocation reflects only three distributions. This information represents final income allocations.

Hospitality Properties Trust is a real estate investment trust, or REIT, which owns 299 hotels located in 38 states, Puerto Rico and Canada. HPT is headquartered in Newton, Massachusetts.

Hospitality Properties Trust
Timothy A. Bonang
617-796-8149
Manager of Investor Relations
www.hptreit.com

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