Item 5.03. Amendments to Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws; Change in Fiscal


            Year.

On January 4, 2023, the Board of Directors of Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, Inc. (the "Company") approved an amendment and restatement of the Company's by-laws (as amended and restated, the "Third Amended and Restated By-Laws"), effective as of such date.

The amendments set forth in the Third Amended and Restated By-Laws, among other things, (1) provide for "proxy access" that allows a stockholder, or a group of up to twenty stockholders, owning at least three percent of the Company's outstanding stock continuously for at least three years, to nominate and include in the Company's annual meeting proxy materials director nominees constituting up to the greater of two directors or twenty percent of the Board of Directors, provided that the stockholders and director nominees satisfy the disclosure and procedural requirements specified in the Third Amended and Restated By-Laws; (2) revise procedures and disclosure requirements for the nomination of directors and the submission of proposals for consideration at annual meetings of the stockholders of the Company, including, among other things, adding a requirement that a stockholder seeking to nominate director(s) at an annual meeting deliver to the Company reasonable evidence that it has complied with the requirements of Rule 14a-19 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, within eight business days of the meeting; (3) revise the majority voting provision to clarify when an election of directors will be deemed contested; (4) clarify the power of the chair of a stockholder meeting to adjourn any meeting of stockholders; (5) adopt a forum selection bylaw to provide that the U.S. federal district courts shall be the exclusive forum for the resolution of claims under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended; (6) adopt gender-neutral terms when referring to particular positions, offices or title holders, including the adoption of the title Chair in place of Chairman; and (7) make certain administrative, modernizing, clarifying and conforming changes, including making updates to reflect recent amendments to the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.

The foregoing summary of the Third Amended and Restated By-Laws does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the Third Amended and Restated By-Laws, which is attached as Exhibit 3.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and incorporated herein by reference.

Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits.

(d) Exhibits. The following exhibits are furnished with this report:



Exhibit
No.         Description

  Exhibit   Third Amended and Restated By-Laws of Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, Inc.
3.1         adopted on January 4, 2023.

Exhibit     Cover Page Interactive Data File - the cover page interactive data file
104         does not appear in the Interactive Data File because its XBRL tags are
            embedded within the Inline XBRL document.

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