Are you building or buying a hotel? Or thinking about rebranding one or more of your properties? If so, be sure to use Lodging Hospitality’s relaunched online Franchise Fee Calculator to determine cost of a franchise.

Using the tool, owners and developers can calculate basic first-year franchise or membership fees for more than 60 top hotel brands that operate in North America. Armed with simple data about the property (number of rooms, annual occupancy and ADR), they can simply and quickly retrieve the franchise costs for up to five brands at a time. The tool is free to use.

If you have questions about the calculator, contact Editor Ed Watkins (ed.watkins@penton.com). Hotel brands looking for sponsorship opportunities can contact Publisher Gary Dietz (gary.dietz@penton.com).