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Represents the amount of royalty fee under the franchise agreement expressed as a percentage of food and beverage revenue.

No definition available.

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Represents the amount of royalty fee under the franchise agreement expressed as a percentage of hotel room revenue.

No definition available.

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Represents the term of franchise agreements.

No definition available.

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Represents the number of real estate properties operated under franchise agreements.

No definition available.

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Costs incurred and are directly related to generating franchise revenues.

Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 225
-SubTopic 10
-Section S99
-Paragraph 2
-Subparagraph (SX 210.5-03.2(e))
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=63488584&loc=d3e20235-122688

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

No definition available.