DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2015

DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS

DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS

NOTE 1 - DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS

Summit Hotel Properties, Inc. (the “Company”) is a self-managed hotel investment company that was organized on June 30, 2010 as a Maryland corporation. The Company holds both general and limited partnership interests in Summit Hotel OP, LP (the “Operating Partnership”), a Delaware limited partnership also organized on June 30, 2010. On February 14, 2011, the Company closed on its initial public offering (“IPO”) and completed certain formation transactions, including the merger of Summit Hotel Properties, LLC (the “Predecessor”) with and into the Operating Partnership (the “Merger”). Unless the context otherwise requires, “we”, “us”, and “our” refer to the Company and its subsidiaries.

While the Operating Partnership was the survivor of and the legal acquirer of the Predecessor in the Merger, for accounting and financial reporting purposes, the Predecessor is considered the accounting acquirer in the Merger. As a result, the historical consolidated financial statements of the Predecessor are presented as the historical consolidated financial statements of the Company after completion of the Merger and the related transactions.

At March 31, 2015, our portfolio consists of 90 Upscale and Upper-midscale hotels with a total of 11,468 guestrooms located in 21 states. We have elected to be taxed as a real estate investment trust (“REIT”) for federal income tax purposes commencing with our short taxable year ended December 31, 2011. To qualify as a REIT, we cannot operate or manage our hotels. Accordingly, substantially all of our hotels are leased to subsidiaries (“TRS Lessees”) of our taxable REIT subsidiary (“TRS”). We indirectly own 100% of the outstanding equity interests in all of our TRS Lessees.