travel-hospitality · registry year 2024 · HQ VA
Hampton Inn Franchise
A Hilton Worldwide brand operating in the travel-hospitality sector, franchising since 1984. According to the 2024 FDD filing for Hampton Inn, this is an editorial comparison record; it does not reproduce the brand's current FDD.
- $10.0M – $25.0M
- Initial investment · Higher entry cost
- 6.0%
- Royalty rate · Above-average royalty
- 2,700
- Total locations · Large network
- $4.2M
- Avg unit revenue · Above-average unit revenue
FDD outlay schedule
Registry hampton-inn Hampton Inn
Hampton Inn needs $10.0M–$25.0M to open and charges a 6.0% royalty - an entry cost above the typical travel-hospitality franchise.
- LO $10.0M
- HI $25.0M
- FEE $75K
- ROY 6.0%
- UNT 2,700
- I19 Disclosed
- INV# #1/223
- UNT# #42/223
Same-sector Item 7 peers
Nearest Item 7 peer: Holiday Inn ($9.0M)
Same-sector Item 7 neighbourhood for Hampton Inn (registry year 2024). Listed lows only - not a profit, cost-of-living, or suitability claim. Verify the current FDD before relying on these figures. How we place brands →
Franchise Opportunity Health Score
How healthy and transparent Hampton Inn's franchise system looks, from 2 of 2 tracked dimensions.
- Network momentum 1.9% net unit growth (YoY) 41/100 · F
- Financial disclosure Item 19 disclosed 100/100 · A
Benchmarked against the 223-brand tracked corpus (p10-p90 range per dimension); a higher score means a growing unit count and a disclosed Item 19. See how we place brands.
Where Hampton Inn's investment ranks nationally
Hampton Inn's listed Item 7 low of $10.0M against every one of the 218 tracked franchise brands with a disclosed initial investment. Listed figures only, verify in the current FDD before relying on them.
Hampton Inn vs all tracked franchise brands by listed investment
Initial investment low (FDD Item 7), PlainFranchise brand corpus
$10,000,000 Higher than most higher than 99% of 218 franchise brands
Franchise brands, banded by listed Item 7 low
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Source PlainFranchise editorial comparison registry · 2024-12-31
Investment Overview
- Franchise Fee
- $75K
- Ad Fund Rate
- 4.0%
Revenue Data (Item 19)
- Average Revenue
- $4.2M
- gross revenue per location
* Revenue figures are gross revenue (sales), not profit. This registry does not report operating costs or profit.
Network Size & Growth
Net Growth Rate
Year-over-year unit change
50 locations closed in the last reporting year
Quick Facts
- Sector
- travel-hospitality
- Subsector
- mid scale hotel
- Founded
- 1984
- Franchising Since
- 1984
- Headquarters
- VA
- FDD Year
- 2024
- Item 19
- Disclosed
Important Notice · Hampton Inn
This Hampton Inn page is a registry comparison record, not a verified FDD extract. It does not establish suitability, operating costs, profitability, or expected results for Hampton Inn.
Large-network capital outlay for Hampton Inn
Signature read: 2,700 locations · Item 7 low $10.0M
Hampton Inn, a Hilton Worldwide franchise, has been franchising since 1984 , currently with 2,700 total locations (2,700 franchised, 0 company-owned; 100% of the recorded total is franchised) in the travel-hospitality sector, headquartered in VA. This editorial registry lists a total initial investment from $10.0M to $25.0M, recorded as a low-to-high range in the registry. A franchise-fee field of $75K is recorded separately, while the registry summary does not reproduce the full Item 7 schedule.
The brand charges 6.0% of gross sales in ongoing royalties with a separate 4.0% national advertising-fund field; the two listed percentages total 10.0%. The registry records an Item 19 field for Hampton Inn. Financial-performance disclosure in Item 19 is voluntary under the FTC Franchise Rule. The reported average gross revenue per location is $4.2M; applying the listed royalty rate to that reported average yields $252K as a simple arithmetic illustration, not a cost or profit estimate. This reported revenue field is not a profitability measure; operating costs are outside this registry.
The unit count trend here is positive -- Hampton Inn posted 1.9% net growth year-over-year (100 openings, 50 closures). This is a reported network-size change, not a measure of profitability, demand, or franchisee outcomes.
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Related reading for Hampton Inn: Understanding FDDs , Hampton Inn lists Item 19 revenue here, how Item 19 fits the 23-item FDD.
Snapshot uses the registry's listed Item 7 initial-investment low and Item 20 location-count fields. It is a descriptive comparison, not a ranking or investment recommendation.
How Hampton Inn's Item 7 and Item 19 fields are labeled (expand)
Nationwide brands with similar investment or network size
Two data-derived peer sets for Hampton Inn , both outside HQ state VA : nearest Item 7 lows and nearest total-location counts, not the same-sector roster below.
Similar listed investment
Nearest Item 7 lows ($10.0M here).
Similar network size
Nearest total location counts (2,700 here).
What to do with this
Hampton Inn at a glance, drawn from the same figures above.
- Hampton Inn scores 71/100 (C) on our composite opportunity read, combining net unit growth and Item 19 financial-disclosure transparency.
- Its $10.0M – $25.0M entry cost runs above the typical travel-hospitality franchise.
- Ranks #1 of 223 listed franchises by initial investment. See rankings
- Holiday Inn sits at a comparable investment level ($9.0M) in the same sector. Compare
Editorial comparison registry, not a source-linked FDD record. Verify the current FDD before relying on any figure.
Read our methodology - what this registry can and cannot establish.
Source: PlainFranchise editorial registry Record-level FDD source link and retrieval date pending
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