Investment in Unconsolidated Affiliates - Additional Information (Details) $ in Thousands	6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2017 USD ($) a room	Dec. 31, 2016 USD ($)
Investment in Unconsolidated Affiliates
Investment in and advances to unconsolidated affiliates	$ 1,005	$ 1,286
Other Investors
Investment in Unconsolidated Affiliates
Variable interest entity, ownership percentage	42.10%
Number of new rooms developed \| room	118
Cash	$ 1,000
Land \| a	2.4
Cost of hotel construction	$ 16,000

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The amount of cost of hotel construction.

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Represents the number of new rooms developed.

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Total investments in (A) an entity in which the entity has significant influence, but does not have control, (B) subsidiaries that are not required to be consolidated and are accounted for using the equity and or cost method, and (C) an entity in which the reporting entity shares control of the entity with another party or group. Includes long-term advances receivable from a party that is affiliated with the reporting entity by means of direct or indirect ownership.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 210
-SubTopic 10
-Section S99
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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.

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Percentage of the Variable Interest Entity's (VIE) voting interest owned by (or beneficial interest in) the reporting entity (directly or indirectly).

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 810
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 5A
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