The accompanying unaudited consolidated financial statements of Hersha Hospitality Trust (“we,” “us,” “our” or the “Company”) have been prepared in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (“US GAAP”) for interim financial information and with the general instructions to Form 10-Q and Rule 10-01 of Regulation S-X. Accordingly, they do not include all of the information and notes required by US GAAP for complete financial statements. In the opinion of management, all adjustments (consisting of normal recurring accruals), considered necessary for a fair presentation have been included. Operating results for the three and six months ended June 30, 2022 are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be expected for the year ending December 31, 2022 or any future period. Accordingly, readers of these consolidated interim financial statements should refer to the Company’s audited financial statements prepared in accordance with US GAAP, and the related notes thereto, for the year ended December 31, 2021, which are included in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021, as certain footnote disclosures normally included in financial statements prepared in accordance with US GAAP have been condensed or omitted from this report pursuant to the rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission.

We are a self-administered Maryland real estate investment trust that was organized in May 1998 and completed our initial public offering in January 1999. Our common shares are traded on the New York Stock Exchange (the “NYSE”) under the symbol “HT.” We own our hotels and our investments in joint ventures through our operating partnership, Hersha Hospitality Limited Partnership (“HHLP” or “the Partnership”), for which we serve as the sole general partner. As of June 30, 2022, we owned an approximate 85.0% partnership interest in HHLP, including a 1.0% general partnership interest.

The accompanying consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with US GAAP and include all of our accounts as well as accounts of the Partnership, subsidiary partnerships and our wholly owned Taxable REIT Subsidiary Lessee (“TRS Lessee”), 44 New England Management Company. All significant inter-company amounts have been eliminated.

Consolidated properties are either wholly owned or owned less than 100% by the Partnership and are controlled by the Company as general partner of the Partnership. Properties owned in joint ventures are also consolidated if the determination is made that we are the primary beneficiary in a variable interest entity (“VIE”) or we maintain control of the asset through our voting interest in the entity.

We evaluate each of our investments and contractual relationships to determine whether they meet the guidelines for consolidation. To determine if we are the primary beneficiary of a VIE, we evaluate whether we have a controlling financial interest in that VIE. An enterprise is deemed to have a controlling financial interest if it has i) the power to direct the activities of a variable interest entity that most significantly impact the entity’s economic performance, and ii) the obligation to absorb losses of the VIE that could be significant to the VIE or the rights to receive benefits from the VIE that could be significant to the VIE. Control can also be demonstrated by the ability of a member to manage day-to-day operations, refinance debt and sell the assets of the partnerships without the consent of the other member and the inability of the members to replace the managing member. Based on our examination, there have been no changes to the operating structure of our legal entities during the three and six months ended June 30, 2022 and, therefore, there are no changes to our evaluation of VIE's as presented within our annual report presented on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021.

We classify the noncontrolling interests of our common units of limited partnership interest in HHLP (“Common Units”), and Long Term Incentive Plan Units (“LTIP Units”) as equity. LTIP Units are a separate class of limited partnership interest in the Operating Partnership that are convertible into Common Units under certain circumstances. The noncontrolling interest of Common Units and LTIP Units totaled $54,536 as of June 30, 2022 and $50,922 as of December 31, 2021. As of June 30, 2022, there were 7,070,680 Common Units and LTIP Units outstanding with a fair market value of $69,363, based on the price per share of our common shares on the NYSE on such date. In accordance with the partnership agreement of HHLP, holders of these Common Units may redeem them for cash unless we, in our sole and absolute discretion, elect to issue common shares on a one-for-one basis in lieu of paying cash.

We are party to a joint venture that owns the Ritz-Carlton Coconut Grove, FL, in which our joint venture partner has a noncontrolling equity interest of 15% in the property. Hersha Holding RC Owner, LLC, the owner entity of the Ritz-Carlton Coconut Grove joint venture ("Ritz Coconut Grove"), will distribute income based on cash available for distribution which will be distributed as follows: (1) to us until we receive a cumulative return on our contributed senior common equity interest, currently at 8%, and (2) then to the owner of the noncontrolling interest until they receive a cumulative return on their contributed junior common equity interest, currently at 8%, and (3) then 75% to us and 25% to the owner of the noncontrolling interest until we both receive a cumulative return on our contributed senior common equity interest, currently at 12%, and (4) finally, any remaining operating profit shall be distributed 70% to us and 30% to the owner of the noncontrolling interest. Additionally, the noncontrolling interest in the Ritz Coconut Grove has the right to put their ownership interest to us for cash consideration at any time during the life of the venture. The balance sheets and financial results of the Ritz Coconut Grove are included in our consolidated financial statements and the book value of the noncontrolling interest in the Ritz Coconut Grove is classified as temporary equity within our Consolidated Balance Sheets.

For Ritz Coconut Grove, income or loss is allocated using Hypothetical Liquidation at Book Value ("HLBV method") as the liquidation rights and priorities, as defined by the venture's governing agreement, differs from the underlying percentage ownership in the venture. The Company applies the HLBV method using a balance sheet approach. A calculation is prepared at each balance sheet date to determine the amount that we would receive if the venture entity were to liquidate all of its assets at carrying value and distribute that cash to the joint venture based on the contractually defined liquidation priorities. The difference between the calculated liquidation distribution amounts at the beginning and the end of the reporting period, after adjusting for capital contributions and distributions, is our share of the earnings or losses and the remainder is allocated to noncontrolling interest.

The noncontrolling interest in the Ritz Coconut Grove is measured at the greater of historical cost or the put option redemption value, and is recorded as part of the Income (Loss) Allocated to Noncontrolling Interests line item within the Consolidated Statements of Operations. The value of the noncontrolling interest at the put option redemption value was $5,274 as of June 30, 2022. As such, we reclassified $2,964 from Additional Paid in Capital to Redeemable Noncontrolling Interests - Consolidated Joint Venture during the six months ended June 30, 2022 to record the noncontrolling interest at the estimated value of the put option.

Terms of the Series C, Series D, and Series E Preferred Shares outstanding at June 30, 2022 and December 31, 2021 are summarized as follows:


							Dividend Per Share (1)
	Shares Outstanding						Six Months Ended June 30,
Series	June 30, 2022	December 31, 2021	Aggregate Liquidation Preference		Distribution Rate		2022		2021
Series C	3,000,000	3,000,000	$	75,000	6.875	%	$	0.8594	$	2.5782
Series D	7,701,700	7,701,700	$	192,500	6.500	%	$	0.8126	$	2.4378
Series E	4,001,514	4,001,514	$	100,000	6.500	%	$	0.8126	$	2.4378
Total	14,703,214	14,703,214

(1) During the six months ended June 30, 2021, the Company paid cash dividends on the Company's Series C, Series D and Series E cumulative redeemable preferred stock reflecting accrued and unpaid dividends for the dividend periods ended April 15, 2020, July 15, 2020, October 15, 2020 and January 15, 2021. In addition, the Company paid a cash dividend on all Series of cumulative redeemable preferred stock for the first dividend period ending April 15, 2021 and declared a similar cash dividend for the second dividend period ending July 15, 2021, which was paid July 15, 2021 to holders of record as of July 1, 2021. The Company is current on dividend obligations on all Series of cumulative redeemable preferred stock as of June 30, 2022.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the effects of travel restrictions both globally and in the United States, the hospitality industry has experienced drastic drops in demand as a result of government mandates, health official recommendations, corporate policy changes and individual responses. We believe the ongoing effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on our operations have had, and may continue to have a material negative impact on our financial results and liquidity, and such negative impact may continue beyond the containment of the pandemic.

On August 4, 2022, we closed on the sale of six of the seven previously announced hotel dispositions to an unaffiliated buyer for a purchase price of $435,900. These six hotels included the Courtyard Brookline, the Hampton Inn Washington, DC, Hilton Garden Inn M Street Washington, DC, Hampton Inn - Philadelphia, TownePlace Suites Sunnyvale and the Courtyard Los Angeles Westside. The proceeds from the sale were used to pay off the Company's junior subordinated notes (the "Junior Notes"), which the Company entered into on February 17, 2021, at a redemption price of 104%, or $164,418. Proceeds from the sale were also used to pay down amounts borrowed under the Company’s line of credit and term loans. Also on August 4, 2022, the Company entered into a new credit agreement for a senior secured credit facility which provides for a $100,000 revolving line of credit and $400,000 term loan. The Company made an initial draw of $400,000 on the facility’s term loan, using the proceeds to pay off the remaining balances under the Company’s prior line of credit and term loans, effectively reducing the Company’s borrowings and moving the maturity of borrowings under the Company’s credit facility to August of 2024. The $100,000 line of credit provided by the new credit facility remains undrawn. See Note 5 – Debt for additional information borrowings under the Company’s prior credit facility, new credit facility, notes payable, and mortgages.

After considering the reduction in debt from proceeds of the hotel dispositions noted above, the effective extension of maturities of borrowings under our new credit agreement noted above, and forecasted cash flows, the Company believes that it has sufficient liquidity to meet its obligations for the next twelve months. We cannot assure you that our assumptions used to estimate our liquidity requirements will be correct because the lodging industry has not previously experienced such an abrupt and drastic reduction in hotel demand, and as a consequence, our ability to be predictive is uncertain and we cannot estimate when travel demand will fully recover.

Investments in hotel properties are recorded at cost. Improvements and replacements are capitalized when they extend the useful life of the asset. Costs of repairs and maintenance are expensed as incurred. Depreciation is computed using the straight-line method over the estimated useful life of up to 40 years for buildings and improvements, two to seven years for furniture, fixtures and equipment. We are required to make subjective assessments as to the useful lives of our properties for purposes of determining the amount of depreciation to record on an annual basis with respect to our investments in hotel properties. These assessments have a direct impact on our net income because if we were to shorten the expected useful lives of our investments in hotel properties we would depreciate these investments over fewer years, resulting in more depreciation expense and lower net income on an annual basis.

Identifiable assets, liabilities, and noncontrolling interests related to hotel properties acquired are recorded at fair value. Estimating techniques and assumptions used in determining fair values involve significant estimates and judgments. These estimates and judgments have a direct impact on the carrying value of our assets and liabilities which can directly impact the amount of depreciation expense recorded on an annual basis and could have an impact on our assessment of potential impairment of our investment in hotel properties.

We consider a hotel to be held for sale when management and our independent trustees commit to a plan to sell the property, the property is available for sale, management engages in an active program to locate a buyer for the property and it is probable the sale will be completed within a year of the initiation of the plan to sell. We evaluate each disposition to determine whether we need to classify the disposition as discontinued operations. We generally include the operations of a hotel that was sold or a hotel that has been classified as held for sale in continuing operations unless the sale represents a strategic shift that will have a major impact on our future operations and financial results. We anticipate that most of our hotel dispositions will not be classified as discontinued operations as most will not fit this definition.

We review our portfolio on an ongoing basis to evaluate the existence of any of the aforementioned events or changes in circumstances that would require us to test for recoverability. In general, our review of recoverability is based on an estimate of the future undiscounted cash flows, excluding interest charges, expected to result from the property’s use and eventual disposition. These estimates consider factors such as expected future operating income, market and other applicable trends and residual value expected, as well as the effects of hotel demand, competition and other factors. Other assumptions used in the review of recoverability include the holding period and expected terminal capitalization rate. If impairment exists due to the inability to recover the carrying value of a property, an impairment loss is recorded to the extent that the carrying value exceeds the estimated fair value of the property. We are required to make subjective assessments as to whether there are impairments in the values of our investments in hotel properties.

In March 2020, the Financial Accounting Standards Board ("FASB") issued ASU No. 2020-4, Reference Rate Reform (Topic 848): Facilitation of the Effects of Reference Rate Reform on Financial Reporting and in January 2021, the FASB issued 2021-01, Reference Rate Reform (Topic 848), Scope, which further clarified the scope of the reference rate reform optional practical expedients and exceptions outlined in Topic 848. As a result of identified structural risks of interbank offered rates, in particular, the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR), reference rate reform is underway to identify alternative reference rates that are more observable or transaction based. The update provides guidance in accounting for changes in contracts, hedging relationships, and other transactions as a result of this reference rate reform. The optional expedients and exceptions contained within these updates, in general, only apply to contract amendments and modifications entered into prior to January 1, 2023. The provisions of these updates that will most likely affect our financial reporting process related to modifications of contracts with lenders and the related hedging contracts associated with each respective modified borrowing contract. In general, the provisions of these updates would impact the Company by allowing, among other things, the following:

We have not entered into modifications for our other remaining contracts, as it directly relates to reference rate reform, but we anticipate having to undertake such modifications in the future as a majority of our contracts with lenders and hedging counterparties are indexed to LIBOR. Some debt contract modifications will occur in the normal course of business and will include other changes in the terms, for which we do not anticipate that this accounting relief will be applicable. However, we anticipate that other debt contract modifications will occur prior to the phase out of LIBOR on June 30, 2023 specifically to address the LIBOR transition, for which we will be able to apply the accounting relief.