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Related Person Transactions
 12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2025
Related Party Transactions [Abstract]  
Related Person Transactions Related Person Transactions
We have relationships and historical and continuing transactions with TA, Sonesta, RMR, RMR Inc., and others related to them, including other companies to which RMR or its subsidiaries provide management services and some of which have trustees, directors or officers who are also our Trustees or officers. Following the TA Merger, TA ceased being a related party. RMR is a majority owned subsidiary of RMR Inc. The Chair of our Board of Trustees and one of our Managing Trustees, Adam D. Portnoy, is the sole trustee, an officer and the controlling shareholder of ABP Trust, which is the controlling shareholder of RMR Inc., the chair of the board of directors, a managing director and the president and chief executive officer of RMR Inc. and an officer and employee of RMR. Christopher J. Bilotto, our other Managing Trustee and our President and Chief Executive Officer, also serves as an executive officer of RMR Inc. and RMR and is an employee of RMR. John G. Murray, our Managing Trustee until March 2025 and our former President and Chief Executive Officer, serves as an officer and employee of RMR and as president and chief executive officer of Sonesta. In connection with his retirement, Mr. Murray will resign from these positions with RMR and Sonesta, effective March 31, 2026 and will remain an employee of Sonesta until his retirement on September 30, 2026. In addition, each of our other officers serves as an officer of RMR. Some of our Independent Trustees also serve as independent trustees of other public companies to which RMR or its subsidiaries provide management services. Mr. Portnoy serves as chair of the boards and as a managing trustee of these public companies. Other officers of RMR, including Mr. Bilotto, and certain of our officers, serve as managing trustees or officers of certain of these companies.
Our Manager, RMR. We have two agreements with RMR to provide management services to us. See Note 8 for further information regarding our management agreements with RMR.
Share Awards to RMR Employees. As described in Note 7, we award shares to our officers and other employees of RMR annually. Generally, one fifth of these awards vest on the award date and one fifth vests on each of the next four anniversaries of the award dates. In certain instances, we may accelerate the vesting of an award, such as in connection with the award holder’s retirement as an officer of us or an officer or employee of RMR. These awards to RMR employees are in addition to the share awards to our Managing Trustees, as Trustee compensation, and the fees we paid to RMR. See Note 7 for information regarding our share awards activity as well as certain share purchases we made in connection with share award recipients satisfying tax withholding obligations on the vesting of share awards.
TA. We lease 175 of our travel centers to TA under the TA leases. RMR provides management services to us and, until the TA Merger, provided services to TA, and Mr. Portnoy, until the TA Merger, also served as the chair of the board of directors and as a managing director of TA and, as of immediately prior to the TA Merger, beneficially owned 661,506 shares of TA common stock (including through RMR), representing approximately 4.4% of TA’s outstanding shares of common stock.
See Notes 4 and 5 for further information regarding our relationships, agreements and transactions with TA.
Sonesta. Sonesta is a private company of which Adam D. Portnoy, one of our Managing Trustees, is a director and the controlling stockholder. One of Sonesta’s other directors and president and chief executive officer, John G. Murray, was our other Managing Trustee until March 2025 and will resign from his positions with Sonesta effective March 31, 2026. Jeffrey C. Leer, an executive vice president of RMR, has been appointed to serve as a co-chief executive officer of Sonesta, effective April 1, 2026. Sonesta’s other director served as one of RMR Inc.’s managing directors, as RMR’s and RMR Inc.’s executive vice president, general counsel and secretary and as our Secretary until her resignation from these positions, effective December 31, 2025, in connection with her retirement. Certain other officers and employees of Sonesta are former officers and employees of RMR. RMR also provides certain services to Sonesta. As of December 31, 2025, we owned 34% of Sonesta’s outstanding shares of common stock and Sonesta managed 69 of our hotels. See Notes 4 and 5 for further information regarding our relationships, agreements and transactions with Sonesta.