Exhibit 10.3

[felcorlogocolorsm.jpg]
 
545 E. JOHN CARPENTER FREEWAY, SUITE 1300
IRVING, TX 75062
PH: 972-444-4900
F: 972-444-4949
WWW.FELCOR.COM
NYSE:FCH

October 16, 2012

Richard A. Smith
1605 Enclave Court
Southlake, TX 76092

Re:    Amendments to your Employment Agreement

Dear Rick:

On August 24, 2012, the Compensation Committee of our Board of Directors, acting
within the parameters of the authority delegated to it by the Board, authorized
the Company to amend the terms of your 2007 employment agreement as follows
(capitalized terms defined in that agreement have the same meaning in this
letter) as follows:

•
Your current Base Salary is confirmed at $721,000. You will continue to
participate in the Company's annual cash bonus and long-term incentive
compensation programs, but the provisions in your Agreement that discuss those
matters are no longer consistent with the structure or administration of the
programs and have been deleted. Similarly, the provisions relating to a one-time
equity grant awarded to you in 2007 have been deleted since that grant has
become irrelevant with the passage of time.

•
Under circumstances described in your Agreement where you could have received
between 18 months and four years of severance compensation, determined with
reference to your then-current Base Salary, the amount of your potential
severance has been fixed at an amount equal to twice your then-current Base
Salary, payable as otherwise provided in your Agreement.

•
Under circumstances described in your Agreement where your outstanding
equity-based compensation would become exercisable on an accelerated basis, to
the extent you receive grants of equity-based compensation that vest in whole or
in part on the basis of performance over a period extending beyond the
accelerated vesting date, performance will be determined for the truncated
period as provided in the applicable grant contracts, substituting the vesting
date for the last day of the relevant performance periods.

Except for conforming changes that give effect to the purposes of the foregoing
amendments, in all other respects, your Agreement remains unchanged.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Richard A. Smith
October 16, 2012
Page 2

Please indicate your agreement with the foregoing by executing this letter where
indicated below.

 
 
Very truly yours,
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
FELCOR LODGING TRUST INCORPORATED
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
By:
/s/Jonathan H. Yellen
 
 
 
 
Jonathan H. Yellen
 
 
 
 
Executive Vice President
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Accepted and agreed as of
 
 
 
the date first written above:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
RICHARD A. SMITH
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
/s/ Richard A. Smith
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
FELCOR LODGING TRUST INCORPORATED
545 E. JOHN CARPENTER FREEWAY, SUITE 1300 IRVING, TX 75062
PH: 972-444-4900 F: 972-444-4949
WWW.FELCOR.COM