While at the Hunter Hotel Conference in March, Hotel News Now’s Danielle Hess sat down with Pat Pacious, president and CEO of Choice Hotels International, for a video interview to touch on company growth, new brands, tech investments and his outlook for the economy.

In 2018, Choice saw a year of record growth and it was the company’s “second-highest development year and the highest in a decade,” Pacious said. Choice’s development pipeline is at 1,000 hotels. Much of that growth, he said, is coming from Choice’s upscale brand, Cambria.