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Ted E. Carter Joins Leisure Hotels Group of Companies As 
VP of Development / Director of Construction Management
 
HUTCHINSON, KS - March 26, 1999 - Steven C. Olson, CEO and President of Leisure Hotels Group of Companies, today announced the appointment of Ted E. Carter as Vice-President of Development and Director of Construction Management.

With over 25 years of construction management experience, Carter will oversee the construction, negotiation and bid work of all development for Leisure Hotels Group of Companies, totaling over $50 million of new construction in 1999 alone.

Prior to joining Leisure Development, L.L.C., Carter worked for MeriStar, the largest independent hotel operator in the world. As one of eight project managers in charge of new hotel development and renovation, he was responsible for over $65 million in new construction and hotel renovation throughout the United States.

Carter also served as senior project manager of the Hotel Construction Division of Integra, a hotel and restaurant company affiliated with the former Brock Hotel Corporation, where he built eight Residence Inns and managed numerous expansion projects on full service Holiday Inns.

In 1990, Carter began his own company, Carter Construction and Development, Inc. where he managed such projects as the renovation of the 90,000 sq. ft. Holiday Inn-City Center in Sioux Falls, So. Dakota, and the renovation of the Sturbridge Host Hotel and Conference Center in Sturbridge, Mass. He has also directed numerous conversions including the Leisure owned and operated Holiday Inn Express in Pratt, Kans. and the Days Inn in Garden City, Kans.

Carter earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas. He will be based out of Mansfield, Texas, where he lives with his wife, Linda, and two children.

The Leisure Hotels Group of Companies specializes in the management of hotels in the limited-, suite-, extended stay-, and full-service market segments of the lodging industry. The company currently manages 14 hotels in Kansas and Missouri with four additional properties under development in New Mexico, Kansas, Iowa and South Carolina.

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Contact:
Steven C. Olson 
CEO/President
Leisure Hotels Group of Companies 
(316) 663-9800 ext 107 
www.leisure-hotel.com  [email protected]
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Also See: Krisitine Davidson Appointed General Manager Of Comfort Inn, Hutchinson, Kansas / Dec 1998 
Gary Endicott Named Executive VP and CFO at Leisure Hotels Group / March 1999 

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