The franchise companies leading the United States hotel construction pipeline are Marriott International with 1,469 projects/193,458 rooms, up 9 percent by projects and rooms year-over-year, according to Lodging Econometrics (LE).
Hilton Worldwide follows in second with 1,372 projects/152,853 rooms, a 3 percent increase YOY. And in third, InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) has 962 projects/97,647 rooms, also up 3 percent by projects and rooms, YOY.
The leading brands in the construction pipeline for each of these three companies are Home2 Suites by Hilton with 413 projects/43,040 rooms, IHG’s Holiday Inn Express with 410 projects/38,814 rooms, and Marriott’s Fairfield Inn with 300 projects/29,133 rooms.
In the first half of 2019, 70 percent of the new hotels that opened in the United States belonged to Marriott, Hilton or IHG. Marriott opened 120 new hotels/15,429 rooms, Hilton opened 125 new hotels/14,553 rooms and IHG opened 69 new hotels/7,406 rooms.
