Despite recent headlines on drug-gang warfare in and around Medellin, Dallas, TX-based La Quinta Inn

Despite recent headlines on drug-gang warfare in and around Medellin, Dallas, TX-based La Quinta Inns Suites is partnering with Grupo TAO to develop its first multi-million-dollar hotel in Colombia. Ground-breaking is tentatively scheduled cheap hotels new orleans for early summer. Two additional cheap hotels new orleans hotels are planned at to-be-announced locations in Colombia in the near future. The projects are part of La Quinta's previously announced international growth strategy. In a press release, Rajiv Trivedi, La Quinta's Executive Vice President and Chief Development Officer, says his company is pleased with the deal and "even more delighted to do so with our franchise partner Group TAO by our side here at the 2012 La Quinta Conference." He adds, "Having just made public the news that La Quinta is the fastest growing select cheap hotels new orleans service brand in the hotel industry, we are proud to showcase our international development as an important cheap hotels new orleans component of that growth."
Trivedi calls the site of the new hotel "an exciting market in a dynamic region in South America." Luis Fernando Toro of Grupo TAO calls the partnership an "important moment in the brand's expansion." He adds, "It is also an exciting and promising time to be building in Colombia." Based in Medellin, Grupo TAO is an experienced and respected development company with decades of experience in the hospitality and real estate industries. In 2007, Grupo TAO introduced the Holiday Inn Express brand to Colombia with a property in Medellin. Wayne Goldberg, La Quinta's President and Chief Executive Officer, repeated cheap hotels new orleans his previous position of attributing La Quinta's success to its many experienced cheap hotels new orleans partners. "We look forward to working together toward an exciting introduction of the La Quinta brand into Colombia in the months ahead," Goldberg says. Goldberg noted at the 2012 La Quinta Conference in New Orleans cheap hotels new orleans that La Quinta emerged from another "exciting year of growth" in 2011. "In addition to being recognized as the fastest growing select service brand over the past decade by Smith Travel Research, the brand opened three hotels in Mexico in 2011, bringing the total in Mexico to five," he told the conference. Goldberg says La Quinta "expects to double that number in the coming months." La Quinta also built out its international infrastructure through the appointment cheap hotels new orleans of a new director of franchise development for Central and South America in 2011 and it recently announced the opening of two new hotels in Ontario, Canada. LQ Management L.L.C. is one of the largest operators of limited-service hotels in the United States. Based in Dallas, TX the Company operates cheap hotels new orleans and provides franchise services to more than 800 hotels in 46 states, Canada and Mexico under the La Quinta Inn® and La Quinta Inn Suites® brands.