Exhibit 99.1

ASHFORD PRIME REPORTS SECOND QUARTER 2014 RESULTS

RevPAR Increase of 4.6% for All Hotels

Adjusted EBITDA Increase of 35% over the Prior Year

DALLAS, August 7, 2014 — Ashford Hospitality Prime, Inc. (NYSE: AHP) (“Ashford Prime” or the “Company”) today reported the following results and performance measures for the second quarter ended June 30, 2014.  On November 19, 2013, the Company completed its spin-off from Ashford Hospitality Trust, Inc. (NYSE: AHT) (“Ashford Trust”), but the Company has presented its prior year financial statements in accordance with GAAP, which requires that historical carve-out financial statements be presented.  Accordingly, the Company’s results for the prior year period may not be representative of results in future periods.  In particular, the general & administrative expenses that are shown in the prior year historical carve-out financial statements do not reflect the expected general & administrative costs of the Company, but rather reflect an allocation of the actual general & administrative costs of Ashford Trust.  The Company has general & administrative costs that it incurs as well as reimbursable costs that Ashford Trust incurs on its behalf.  The Company also pays a base management fee to Ashford Trust equal to 0.70% times its total enterprise value.  The performance measurements for Occupancy, Average Daily Rate (ADR), Revenue Per Available Room (RevPAR), and Hotel Operating Profit (or Hotel EBITDA) are pro forma.  Unless otherwise stated, all reported results compare the second quarter ended June 30, 2014, with the second quarter ended June 30, 2013 (see discussion below).  The reconciliation of non-GAAP financial measures is included in the financial tables accompanying this press release.

FINANCIAL AND OPERATING HIGHLIGHTS

·                  RevPAR for all Ashford Prime hotels increased 4.6% during the second quarter

·                  Hotel EBITDA flow-through continued to be impacted by higher property taxes and incentive management fees; certain incentive management fees kicked in during the third quarter of the prior year so Hotel EBITDA flow-through should improve in future quarters

·                  Net income attributable to common shareholders for the Company was $3.5 million, or $0.14 per diluted share, compared with net income attributable to common shareholders of $3.8 million, or $0.24  per diluted share, in the prior-year quarter

·                  Adjusted funds from operations (AFFO) for the Company was $0.45 per diluted share for the quarter compared to $0.44 from the prior-year quarter

·                  At the end of the second quarter 2014, the Company had total net working capital of $193 million

·                  David Kimichik, the Company’s former Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, retired on June 13, 2014, following a career spanning over 32 years with Ashford Trust and its predecessor; Deric Eubanks, formerly the Company’s Senior Vice President of Finance, succeeded him as Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer reporting to Ashford Prime Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Monty J. Bennett

CAPITAL EXPENDITURES

·                  Capex invested in the quarter for the Ashford Prime Portfolio was $3.3 million

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CAPITAL STRUCTURE

At June 30, 2014, the Company had total assets of $1.3 billion in continuing operations.  As of June 30, 2014, the Company had $767 million of mortgage debt in continuing operations of which $49.2 million related to our joint venture partner’s share of debt on the Capital Hilton and Hilton La Jolla Torrey Pines.  Ashford Prime’s total combined debt had a blended average interest rate of 4.99%.

PORTFOLIO REVPAR

As of June 30, 2014, the Ashford Prime Portfolio consisted of direct hotel investments with ten properties classified in continuing operations.  During the second quarter of 2014, all ten of the Ashford Prime Portfolio hotels included in continuing operations were not under renovation.

·                  Pro forma RevPAR increased 4.6% to $184.70 for all hotels in the Ashford Prime Portfolio on a 2.9% increase in ADR and a 1.7% increase in occupancy

HOTEL EBITDA MARGINS AND QUARTERLY SEASONALITY TRENDS

The Company believes year-over-year Hotel EBITDA and Hotel EBITDA Margin comparisons are more meaningful to gauge the performance of the Company’s hotels than sequential quarter-over-quarter comparisons.  Given the substantial seasonality in the Company’s portfolio, to help investors better understand this seasonality, the Company provides quarterly detail on its Hotel EBITDA and Hotel EBITDA Margin for the current and certain prior-year periods based upon the number of hotels in the Ashford Prime Portfolio as of the end of the current period.  As the Company’s portfolio mix changes from time to time so will the seasonality for Pro forma Hotel EBITDA and Pro forma Hotel EBITDA margin.  The details of the quarterly calculations for the previous four quarters for the 10 Ashford Prime Portfolio hotels included in continuing operations are provided in the table attached to this release.

RETIREMENT AND NAMING OF NEW CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER

On June 13, 2014, David Kimichik, the Company’s former Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, retired following a career spanning over 32 years with Ashford Trust and its predecessor.  Deric Eubanks, formerly the Company’s Senior Vice President of Finance, succeeded him as Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer reporting to Ashford Prime Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Monty J. Bennett.

Prior to his role as Senior Vice President of Finance, Mr. Eubanks was Vice President of Investments and was responsible for sourcing and underwriting hotel investments including direct equity investments, joint venture equity, preferred equity, mezzanine loans, first mortgages, B-notes, construction loans, and other debt securities.  Before joining Ashford Trust, Mr. Eubanks was a Manager of Financial Analysis for ClubCorp, where he assisted in underwriting and analyzing investment opportunities in the golf and resort industries.  Mr. Eubanks earned a BBA from Southern Methodist University and is a CFA charterholder.

COMMON STOCK DIVIDEND

On June 13, 2014, the Company announced that its Board of Directors had declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.05 per diluted share for the Company’s common stock for the second quarter ending June 30, 2014, payable on July 15, 2014, to shareholders of record as of June 30, 2014.

“Our second quarter RevPAR results were negatively impacted by the weak market conditions we experienced in Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, and Chicago.  However, our hotels in those markets were still able to outperform their competitive sets during the quarter.  That’s a testament to the high quality of the Ashford Prime portfolio.  Our west coast assets continue to outperform the industry averages, and we are very excited about the long-term prospects for this portfolio of high quality, high RevPAR hotels,” commented Monty J. Bennett, Ashford Prime’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer.  “We will continue to seek to grow the

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Ashford Prime portfolio in a manner that is accretive to long-term shareholder returns.”

INVESTOR CONFERENCE CALL AND SIMULCAST

Ashford Hospitality Prime, Inc. will conduct a conference call on Friday, August 8, 2014, at 11:00 a.m. ET.  The number to call for this interactive teleconference is (913) 981-5551.  A replay of the conference call will be available through Friday, August 15, 2014, by dialing (719) 457-0820 and entering the confirmation number, 7335033.

The Company will also provide an online simulcast and rebroadcast of its second quarter 2014 earnings release conference call.  The live broadcast of Ashford Hospitality Prime’s quarterly conference call will be available online at the Company’s web site, www.ahpreit.com on Friday, August 8, 2014, beginning at 11:00 a.m. ET.  The online replay will follow shortly after the call and continue for approximately one year.

Substantially all of our non-current assets consist of real estate investments secured by real estate.  Historical cost accounting for real estate assets implicitly assumes that the value of real estate assets diminishes predictably over time.  Since real estate values instead have historically risen or fallen with market conditions, most industry investors consider supplemental measures of performance, which are not measures of operating performance under GAAP, to assist in evaluating a real estate company’s operations. These supplemental measures include FFO, AFFO, EBITDA, and Hotel Operating Profit.  FFO is computed in accordance with our interpretation of standards established by NAREIT, which may not be comparable to FFO reported by other REITs that do not define the term in accordance with the current NAREIT definition or that interpret the NAREIT definition differently than us.  Neither FFO, AFFO, EBITDA, nor Hotel Operating Profit represents cash generated from operating activities as determined by GAAP and should not be considered as an alternative to a) GAAP net income (loss) as an indication of our financial performance or b) GAAP cash flows from operating activities as a measure of our liquidity, nor are such measures indicative of funds available to satisfy our cash needs, including our ability to make cash distributions.  However, management believes FFO, AFFO, EBITDA, and Hotel Operating Profit to be meaningful measures of a REIT’s performance and should be considered along with, but not as an alternative to, net income and cash flow as a measure of our operating performance.

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Ashford Hospitality Prime is a conservatively capitalized real estate investment trust (REIT) focused on investing in high RevPAR full-service and urban select-service hotels and resorts located predominantly in domestic and international gateway markets.

Follow Chairman and CEO Monty Bennett on Twitter at www.twitter.com/MBennettAshford or @MBennettAshford.

Ashford has created an Ashford App for the hospitality REIT investor community.  The Ashford App is available for free download at Apple’s App Store and the Google Play Store by searching “Ashford.”

Certain statements and assumptions in this press release contain or are based upon “forward-looking” information and are being made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.  These forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties.  When we use the words “will likely result,” “may,” “anticipate,” “estimate,” “should,” “expect,” “believe,” “intend,” or similar expressions, we intend to identify forward-looking statements.  Such statements are subject to numerous assumptions and uncertainties, many of which are outside Ashford Prime’s control.

These forward-looking statements are subject to known and unknown risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated, including, without limitation:  general volatility of the capital markets and the market price of our common stock; changes in our business or investment strategy; availability, terms and deployment of capital; availability of qualified personnel; changes in our industry and the market in which we operate, interest rates or the general economy; and the degree and nature of our competition.  These and other risk factors are more fully discussed in Ashford Prime’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.  EBITDA is defined as net income before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization.  EBITDA yield is defined

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as trailing twelve month EBITDA divided by the purchase price.  A capitalization rate is determined by dividing the property’s annual net operating income by the purchase price.  Net operating income is the property’s funds from operations minus a capital expense reserve of either 4% or 5% of gross revenues.  Hotel EBITDA flow-through is the change in Hotel EBITDA divided by the change in total revenues.  Hotel EBITDA Margin is Hotel EBITDA divided by total revenues.  Funds from operations (“FFO”), as defined by the White Paper on FFO approved by the Board of Governors of the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts (“NAREIT”) in April 2002, represents net income (loss) computed in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”), excluding gains (or losses) from sales of properties and extraordinary items as defined by GAAP, plus depreciation and amortization of real estate assets, and net of adjustments for the portion of these items related to unconsolidated entities and joint ventures.

The forward-looking statements included in this press release are only made as of the date of this press release.  Investors should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements.  We are not obligated to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or circumstances, changes in expectations or otherwise.

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ASHFORD HOSPITALITY PRIME, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES

CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS

(in thousands, except share amounts)

ASHFORD HOSPITALITY PRIME, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES

CONSOLIDATED AND COMBINED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS

(in thousands, except per share amounts)

ASHFORD HOSPITALITY PRIME, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES

RECONCILIATION OF NET INCOME (LOSS) TO EBITDA

(in thousands)

(unaudited)

RECONCILIATION OF NET INCOME (LOSS) TO FUNDS FROM OPERATIONS (“FFO”)

(in thousands, except per share amounts)

(unaudited)

ASHFORD HOSPITALITY PRIME, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES

SUMMARY OF INDEBTEDNESS

June 30, 2014

(dollars in thousands)

(unaudited)

All indebtedness is non-recourse.

(1) This credit facility has two one-year extension options subject to advance notice, certain conditions and a 0.25% extension fee beginning November 2016.

(2) This mortgage loan has three one-year extension options beginning September 2015, subject to satisfaction of certain conditions.

(3) This mortgage loan has three one-year extension options beginning March 2016, subject to satisfaction of certain conditions.

ASHFORD HOSPITALITY PRIME, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES

INDEBTEDNESS BY MATURITY

June 30, 2014

(in thousands)

(unaudited)

ASHFORD HOSPITALITY PRIME, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES

KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS - PRO FORMA

(dollars in thousands)

(Unaudited)

NOTES:

(1)         The above pro forma table assumes the ten hotel properties owned and included in the Company’s operations at June 30, 2014 were owned as of the beginning of each of the periods presented.

(2)         On January 1, 2013, Marriott converted from a fiscal year with 12 weeks of operations in each of the first three quarters of the year and 16 weeks in the fourth quarter of the year, to calendar quarters.   The above pro forma table reflects an extra 3 days in Marriott-managed properties for the six months ended June 30, 2013.

ASHFORD HOSPITALITY PRIME, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES

PRO FORMA HOTEL OPERATING PROFIT MARGIN

(Unaudited)

THE FOLLOWING PRO FORMA EBITDA MARGIN TABLE REFLECTS THE TEN HOTELS INCLUDED IN THE COMPANY’S OPERATIONS AS IF THESE HOTELS WERE OWNED AT THE BEGINNING OF THE FIRST COMPARATIVE REPORTING PERIOD.

ASHFORD HOSPITALITY PRIME, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES

Selected Pro Forma Financial and Operating Information by Property

(in thousands, except operating information)

(Unaudited)

The following tables present selected financial and operating information by property for the ten properties included in Ashford Hospitality Prime, Inc.