Analysts at Lodging Econometrics (LE) report that the four leading franchise companies in the Global Hotel Construction Pipeline by project-count are: Marriott International with 2,021 projects/347,544 rooms, Hilton Worldwide with 1,733 projects/267,788 rooms, InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) with 1,343 projects/207,806 rooms and Choice Hotels with 487 projects/43,381 rooms.
The leading brand for each of these top Global franchise companies are: IHG’s Holiday Inn Express with 607 projects/73,584 rooms, Hilton’s Hampton Inn with 478 projects/55,737 rooms, Marriott’s Fairfield Inn with 299 projects/31,603 rooms and Choice’s Comfort Inn with 114 projects/10,752 rooms.
