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Hospitality Properties Trust Announces 2017 Dividend Allocation

January 16, 2018

Hospitality Properties Trust Announces 2017 Dividend Allocation

Hospitality Properties Trust (Nasdaq: HPT) today announced that the characterization of dividends for 2017 income tax reporting purposes is as follows:


Common Shares

				Dividend Allocation
				Per Share
						Total	Unrecaptured
Declaration	Record	Paid/Payable	Dividends	Ordinary	Qualified	Capital	Section 1250	Return of
Dates	Dates	Dates	Per Share	Income	Dividend ⁽¹⁾	Gain	Gain ⁽²⁾	Capital
01/13/17	01/23/17	02/21/17	$0.5100	$0.4829	$0.0037	$0.0047	$0.0047	$0.0224
04/11/17	04/21/17	05/18/17	$0.5200	$0.4924	$0.0038	$0.0048	$0.0048	$0.0228
07/12/17	07/24/17	08/17/17	$0.5200	$0.4924	$0.0038	$0.0048	$0.0048	$0.0228
10/12/17	10/23/17	11/16/17	$0.5200	$0.4924	$0.0038	$0.0048	$0.0048	$0.0228
		TOTALS:	$2.0700	$1.9601	$0.0151	$0.0191	$0.0191	$0.0908
			100.00%	94.69%		0.92%		4.39%

HPT’s common share CUSIP number is 44106M102. This information represents final income allocations.

Series D Preferred Shares

Dividend Allocation

Per Share

Total

Unrecaptured

Declaration

Record

Paid/Payable

Dividends

Ordinary

Qualified

Capital

Section 1250

Return of

Dates

Per Share

Income

Dividend ⁽¹⁾

Gain

Gain ⁽²⁾

Capital

12/01/16

12/31/16

01/17/17

$0.4453

$0.4412

$0.0032

$0.0041

$0.0000

TOTALS:

$0.4453

$0.4412

$0.0032

$0.0041

$0.0000

100.00%

99.08%

0.92%

0.00%

(1) Qualified Dividends are a subset of, and included in, the Ordinary Income Amount.

(2) Unrecaptured Section 1250 Gain is a subset of, and included in, the Total Capital Gain Amount.

HPT’s Series D preferred share CUSIP number is 44106M607. This information represents final income allocations.

Shareholders should look to IRS Form 1099-DIV for their tax reporting. This press release is not intended to replace the Form 1099-DIV.

Hospitality Properties Trust is a real estate investment trust, or REIT, which owns a diverse portfolio of hotels and travel centers located in 45 states, Puerto Rico and Canada. HPT's properties are operated under long term management or lease agreements. HPT is managed by the operating subsidiary of The RMR Group Inc. (Nasdaq: RMR), an alternative asset management company that is headquartered in Newton, Massachusetts.

A Maryland Real Estate Investment Trust with transferable shares of beneficial interest listed on the Nasdaq.
No shareholder, Trustee or officer is personally liable for any act or obligation of the Trust.