Choice Hotels International announced that its board has declared a cash dividend on the company’s common stock of 21.5c per share. The dividend is payable on October 17, to stockholders of record on October 2. In addition, the Choice Hotels board approved an increase in the number of shares authorized under its share repurchase program by approximately 2.3M shares, which, when added to the remaining number of available shares previously authorized for purchase, results in 4M shares authorized for repurchase under the program.