Service Properties Trust

This Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and other securities laws that are subject to risks and uncertainties. These statements may include words such as “believe”, “expect”, “anticipate”, “intend”, “plan”, “estimate”, “will”, “may” and negatives or derivatives of these or similar expressions. These forward-looking statements include, among others, statements about: economic and market conditions and their potential impacts on us, our hotel managers and our tenants; expectations regarding demand for corporate travel and lodging; the sufficiency of our liquidity; our liquidity needs, sources and expected uses; our capital expenditure plans and commitments; our property dispositions and expected use of proceeds; and the amount and timing of future distributions.

• The ability of Sonesta to successfully operate the hotels it manages for us,

• Our ability and the ability of our managers and tenants to operate under unfavorable market and commercial real estate industry conditions due to, among other things, high interest rates, prolonged high inflation, labor market challenges, supply chain disruptions, volatility in the public equity and debt markets, pandemics, geopolitical instability and tensions, economic downturns or a possible recession or changes in real estate utilization,

• If and when business transient hotel business will return to historical levels and whether any improved hotel industry conditions will continue, increase or be sustained,

• Whether and the extent to which our managers and tenants will pay the contractual amounts of returns, rents or other obligations due to us,

• Competition within the commercial real estate, hotel, transportation and travel center and other industries in which our managers and tenants operate, particularly in those markets in which our properties are located,

• Our ability to repay or refinance our debts as they mature or otherwise become due,

• Our ability to maintain sufficient liquidity, including the availability of borrowings under our revolving credit facility,

• Our ability to pay interest on and principal of our debt,

• Our ability to pay distributions to our shareholders and to increase or sustain the amount of such distributions,

• Our ability to acquire properties that realize our targeted returns,

• Our ability to sell properties at prices we target,

• Our ability to raise or appropriately balance the use of debt or equity capital,

• Potential defaults under our management agreements and leases by our managers and tenants,

• Our ability to increase hotel room rates and rents at our net leased properties as our leases expire in excess of our operating expenses and to grow our business,

• Our ability to increase and maintain hotel room and net lease property occupancy at our properties,

• Our ability to make cost-effective improvements to our properties that enhance their appeal to hotel guests and net lease tenants,

• Our ability to engage and retain qualified managers and tenants for our hotels and net lease properties on satisfactory terms,

• Our ability to diversify our sources of rents and returns that improve the security of our cash flows,

• Our credit ratings,

• The ability of our manager, RMR, to successfully manage us,

• Actual and potential conflicts of interest with our related parties, including our Managing Trustees, Sonesta, RMR and others affiliated with them,

• Our ability to realize benefits from the scale, geographic diversity, strategic locations and variety of service levels of our hotels,

• Other matters.

These risks, uncertainties and other factors are not exhaustive and should be read in conjunction with other cautionary statements that are included in our periodic filings. The information contained elsewhere in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q or in our other filings with the SEC, including under the caption “Risk Factors”, or incorporated herein or therein, identifies other important factors that could cause differences from our forward-looking statements. Our filings with the SEC are available on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov.