Hospitality Properties Trust (NYSE: HPT) today announced that Bruce M.
Gans, M.D. has been appointed to fill the unexpired term of Frank J.
Bailey as an Independent Trustee of HPT. HPT has previously announced
that Mr. Bailey had submitted his resignation effective January 30,
2009, as a result of Mr. Bailey's appointment as a Federal Bankruptcy
Judge for the District of Massachusetts. Dr. Gans is expected to serve
the remainder of Mr. Bailey's term that will expire at the annual
meeting of HPT shareholders in 2009, at which time it is expected that
Dr. Gans will stand for election by HPT shareholders.
Dr. Gans has also been appointed to HPT's Audit, Compensation, and
Nominating and Governance Committees.
Dr. Gans (age 62) has been Executive Vice President and Chief Medical
Officer of the Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation in West Orange, New
Jersey for the past seven years. Dr. Gans is also a Director of Five
Star Quality Care, Inc. (NYSE Alternext US: FVE) and has been since 2001.
Hospitality Properties Trust is a real estate investment trust which
owns 289 hotels and 185 travel centers located throughout the United
States and in Puerto Rico and Canada. HPT is headquartered in Newton, MA.
A Maryland Real Estate Investment Trust with transferable shares of
beneficial interest listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
No shareholder, Trustee or officer is personally liable for any act
or obligation of the Trust.
Hospitality Properties Trust
Timothy A. Bonang, 617-796-8232
Director of Investor Relations
or
Carlynn Finn, 617-796-8232
Manager of Investor Relations
www.hptreit.com
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