Best Western International will add 50 hotels in southern Asian countries by 1993, the lodging chain said.

The lodging chain is owed by Cendant.

A concentration of hotels dominates the four quadrants of the State Line Avenue/Interstate 30 interchange, with over a dozen different lodging chains being represented at this exit.

The lodging chain cited the need to change marketing directions and find a fresh creative approach.

Most lodging chains have accommodations near the trail complexes.

The announcement of the split, effective on Feb. 1, followed weeks of speculation in trade publications that the lodging chain was considering such a change.

Motel 6 led the Big Board active list, rising 2 3/4, to 22, after Accor of France agreed to buy the lodging chain for $1.3 billion.

Super8, Days Inn, Ramada, Travelodge and other lodging chains will be in a third.

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In 1976, the company started a lodging chain, with properties branded as "Shoney's Inn" motels.