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"We'll let 'ya sit in the dark."

Motel 6

Owner: Accor
Country: France

"We'll leave the light on for ya." So promises Tom Bodett, the folksy spokesman for one of America's best-known budget hotel chains, Motel 6. Since opening its first location in Santa Barbara, Calif., in 1962, the low-cost Motel 6 has been boarding American highway travelers looking for a good deal. Now with 910 franchises across the U.S. and Canada, the company has been owned since 1990 by Paris hospitality giant Accor, which also operates the Ibis, Mercure, Novotel, and Sofitel chains. (Incidentally, Holiday Inn, which started in Memphis, also is foreign-owned, a unit of Britain's InterContinental Hotels Group.)

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