INNSUITES HOSPITALITY TRUST
For the period ended Jan 31, 2026. Filed May 19, 2026.
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FY2026 · Filed May 19, 2026
Contents
Item 1. BUSINESS
INTRODUCTION TO OUR BUSINESS
InnSuites Hospitality Trust (the “Trust”) is headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona and is an unincorporated Ohio real estate investment trust formed on June 21, 1971. The Trust is not taxed as a real estate investment trust for federal taxation purposes but is taxed as a C-corporation. The Trust, with its affiliate RRF Limited Liability Limited Partnership (RRF LLLP), a Delaware limited liability limited partnership (the “Partnership”), owns interests in two hotels, operates and provides management services, and provides trademark license services, for two hotels. The Trust also holds a diversification investment in an efficient clean energy electricity generator innovation, as well as manages and holds an option to purchase, at cost, an independent boutique hotel reservation and independent hotel services investment.
At January 31, 2026, and currently, the Trust owns a 79.18% sole general partner interest in the Partnership, which controls a 51.69% interest in the InnSuites hotel located in Tucson, Arizona, and a direct 21.90% interest in the InnSuites hotel located in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The Tucson and Albuquerque hotels are sometimes referred to as the “Hotels”. We anticipate selling one or both Hotels in the next thirty-six (36) months.
RRF Limited Liability Limited Partnership, a 79.18% majority-owned subsidiary of the Trust, provides management services for the two Trust Hotels. RRF also manages IBC Hotels, LLC, a reservation and independent hotel services company. The Trust has approximately 52 full-time employees and approximately 27 part-time employees.
The two Hotels have an aggregate of 270 hotel suites and operate as moderate-service hotels that apply a value studio and two-room suite operating philosophy formulated in 1980 by Mr. James Wirth, President, the Trust’s Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer. Both hotels offer swimming pools, fitness centers, business centers, and complimentary hot, healthy breakfast. In addition, the Hotels offer complementary social areas and modest conference facilities. The Tucson hotel has “PJ’s” Pub and Café, as well.
For the Fiscal Year 2027 ahead, February 1, 2026 through January 31, 2027, the Trust’s operations are focused on the Trust’s primary business objective which is to maximize returns to its shareholders through hotel operating income and increases in asset value, focused on long-term total returns to shareholders, including profitable hotel and diversification operations and sale of assets, along with growth of investments. The Trust seeks to achieve this objective through intensive management and marketing of the InnSuites© Suite hotels, by even more profitable hotel operations, selling hotel real estate at market prices well above book values and benefitting from diversified investments, including efficient clean energy electricity generator innovation under development by UniGen Power, Inc. (UniGen). See “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations — Future Positioning” for a more detailed discussion of the Trust’s strategic objectives.
The Trust has a single class of Shares of Beneficial Interest, without par value, that are traded on the NYSE AMERICAN under the symbol “IHT.” The Partnership has two outstanding classes of limited partnership interests, Class A and Class B, which are identical in all respects. Both Class A and Class B Partnership Units are convertible, at the option of the holder, into one newly issued Share of Beneficial Interest of the Trust.
MANAGEMENT AND LICENSING CONTRACTS
The Trust directly manages the Hotels through the Trust’s majority-owned subsidiary, RRF LLLP. Under the management agreements, RRF manages the daily operations of both Trust Hotels. All Trust managed Hotel expenses, revenues and reimbursements among the Trust, and the Partnership have been eliminated in consolidation. The management fees for the Hotels are 5% of room revenue and a monthly accounting fee of $2,000 per hotel. These agreements have no expiration dates but may be cancelled by either party with 30-days written notice, or potentially sooner in the event the property changes ownership.
The Trust also provides the use of the “InnSuites” trademark to the Hotels and stands ready to offer trademark services through the Trust’s majority-owned subsidiary, RRF LLLP, which is included in the management fee. The InnSuites trademark expires in January 2027.
MEMBERSHIP AGREEMENTS
Each InnSuites Hotel has entered into membership agreements with Best Western International, Inc. (“Best Western”) with respect to each of the two Hotels. In exchange for use of the Best Western name, trademark and reservation system, each Hotel pays marketing and reservation fees to Best Western based on reservations received through the use of the Best Western reservation system, a marketing fee based upon the monthly room revenues, and a monthly fee based on the number of available suites at the Hotels. The agreements with Best Western are year-to-year. Best Western requires that the Hotels meet or exceed certain minimum requirements for room quality, and the two Hotels are subject to removal from the Best Western reservation system if these requirements are not met. During the past year, the two Hotels received significant reservations through the Best Western reservation system. Under these arrangements, fees paid for membership fees and reservations were approximately $227,000 and $209,000, recorded in on the Consolidated Statement of Operations, for Fiscal Years ended January 31, 2026, and 2025, respectively.
COMPETITION IN THE HOTEL INDUSTRY
The hotel industry is highly competitive. Both the Tucson and Albuquerque hotels experienced record or near high revenues and Gross Operating Profit (GOP Profits), in Fiscal Year 2026 (February 1, 2025 to January 31, 2026). This high revenue resulted from solid occupancy and incremental modest increases in room rates. Thus, the positive effect on gross operating profit largely resulted due to cost control measures, and modest room rate increases. The impact of COVID-19 to the world economy and hospitality industry resulted in reduced occupancy and reduction in room rates, both of which have now fully recovered. Continued competition in corporate, leisure, group, and government business in the markets in which we operate, may affect our ability to maintain room rates, hold occupancy, and maintain market share. Each of the Hotels faces competition primarily from other mid-market hotels located in its immediate vicinity, but also competes with hotel properties located in other geographic markets, and increasingly from alternative lodging facilities, such as Airbnb. While none of the Hotels’ competitors dominate any of their geographic markets, some of those competitors may have greater marketing and/or financial resources than the Trust.
Hotel property refurbishments have been completed by the two Trust hotels and by certain competitors in both Hotels’ markets, and additional hotel property developments may be built in the future. Such hotel developments could have an adverse effect on the revenue of our Hotels in their respective markets.
The Trust’s hotel investments are located in Arizona and New Mexico. With the completed renovations meeting Best Western standards at our Tucson, Arizona and Albuquerque, New Mexico hotel properties, those hotels are expected to continue to see incremental demand during the next 24 months. Supply has been relatively steady in those respective markets. Either a significant increase in supply or a significant decline in demand could result in increased competition, which could have an adverse effect on occupancy, room rates and revenues of our Hotels in their respective markets. The prior year economy was volatile and uncertain. Recovery has and is benefiting our hotels in the First Fiscal Quarter of Fiscal 2027, (February 1, 2026 to April 30, 2026). Solid results are expected to continue for the balance of Fiscal Year 2027, through January 31, 2027.
The Trust may not invest further in hotels, but rather diversify into investments such as the investment made by the Trust in December 2019 in the innovative UniGen Power, Inc. (UniGen), efficient clean energy electricity generation company. The Trust may continue to seek further diversification including through a merger or reverse merger with a larger non-public entity seeking an NYSE-American public stock market listing.
REGULATION
The Trust is subject to numerous federal, state, and local government laws and regulations affecting the hospitality industry, including usage, building and zoning requirements , guest safety, and the laws and regulations related to the preparation and sale of food and beverage such as health and liquor license laws. A violation of any of those laws and regulations or increased government regulation could require the Trust to make unplanned expenditures which may result in higher operating costs. Compliance with these laws is often time intensive and costly and may reduce the Trust’s revenues and operating income.
Under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (the “ADA”), all public accommodations are required to meet certain readily achievable federal requirements related to access and use by disabled persons. In addition to ADA work completed to date, the Trust may be required to remove additional access barriers or make unplanned, substantial modifications to its Hotels to further comply with the ADA or to comply with other changes in governmental rules and regulations, or become subject to claims, fines, and damage awards, any of which could reduce the number of total available rooms, increase operating costs, and/or have a negative impact on the Trust’s results of operations.
Our hotel properties are subject to various federal, state, and local environmental laws that impose liability for contamination. Under these laws, governmental entities have the authority to require us, as the current or former owner of the property, to perform or pay for the clean-up of contamination (including swimming pool chemicals or hazardous substances or biological waste) at or arising from the property and to pay for natural resource damage arising from contamination. These laws often impose liability without regard to whether the owner or operator knew of or caused the contamination. Such liability can be joint and several, so that each covered person or entity can be responsible for all the costs involved, even if more than one person or entity may have been responsible for the contamination. We can also be liable to private parties for costs of remediation, personal injury, death and/or property damage resulting from contamination at or originating from our hotel properties. Moreover, environmental contamination can affect the value of a property and, therefore, an owner’s ability to borrow funds using the property as collateral or to sell the property on favorable terms or at all. Furthermore, persons who sent waste to a waste disposal facility, such as a landfill or an incinerator, may be liable for costs associated with cleanup of that facility.
The Trust is also subject to laws governing our relationship with employees, including minimum wage requirements, overtime, working conditions and work permit requirements. There are frequent proposals under consideration, at the federal and state levels, to increase the minimum wage. The current labor market is tight, with employees increasingly difficult to recruit and retain. Additional increases to the state or federal minimum wage rate, and employee benefit costs including health care or other costs associated with employees could increase expenses and result in lower operating margins. This has been experienced somewhat due to the fact that industry labor is currently limited and increasingly expensive.
The Trust collects and maintains information relating to its guests for various business purposes, including maintaining guest preferences to enhance the Trust’s customer service and for marketing and promotional purposes. The collection and use of personal data are governed by privacy laws and regulations. Compliance with applicable privacy regulations may further increase the Trust’s operating costs and/or adversely impact its ability to service its guests and market its products, properties, and services to its guests. In addition, non-compliance with applicable privacy regulations by the Trust (or in some circumstances non-compliance by third parties engaged by the Trust) could result in fines or restrictions on its use or transfer of data.
SEASONALITY OF THE HOTEL BUSINESS
The Hotels’ operations historically have been somewhat seasonal. The Tucson Arizona Hotel historically experiences the highest occupancy in the first Fiscal Quarter (the winter high season) and, to a lesser extent, the fourth Fiscal Quarter. The second Fiscal Quarter (summer low season) historically tends to be the lowest occupancy period at this Arizona Hotel. This seasonality pattern can be expected to cause fluctuations in the Trust’s quarterly revenues. The Hotel located in Albuquerque, New Mexico historically experiences its most profitable periods during the second and third Fiscal Quarters (the summer high season), providing some balance to the general seasonality of the Trust’s hotel business.
The seasonal nature of the Trust’s business increases its vulnerability to risks such as travel disruptions, labor force shortages and cash flow issues. Further, if an adverse event such as an actual or threatened virus pandemic, terrorist attack, international conflict, data breach, regional economic downturn or poor weather should occur at either of its two hotels, the adverse impact to the Trust’s revenues and profit could be significant.
OTHER AVAILABLE INFORMATION
We also make available, free of charge, on our Internet website at www.innsuitestrust.com, our annual reports on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, current reports on Form 8-K and amendments to reports filed or furnished pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, as soon as reasonably practicable after we file such material with, or furnish it to, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”). Information on our Internet website shall not be deemed incorporated into, or be part of, this report. This information is also available at SEC.gov.
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