Hospitality Properties Trust Announces Record Date for Annual Meeting

January 31, 2011

NEWTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Hospitality Properties Trust (NYSE: HPT) today announced that it has scheduled its 2011 Annual Meeting of Shareholders for May 11, 2011. The record date for determination of shareholders entitled to vote at the meeting is February 18, 2011.

Hospitality Properties Trust is a real estate investment trust that 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
617-796-8232
Timothy A. Bonang, Vice President, Investor Relations
or
Carlynn Finn, Manager, Investor Relations
www.hptreit.com

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