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The franchise companies with the largest construction pipelines at the end of the first quarter of 2020 are Marriott International with 1,556 projects/204,244 rooms, followed by Hilton with 1,413 projects/161,743 rooms and InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) with 954 projects/97,547 rooms, according to the United States Construction Pipeline Trend Report from Lodging Econometrics (LE).
Combined, the brands of these three franchise companies comprise 69 percent of the projects in the total U.S. pipeline.
The leading brands by project count for these three companies continue to be Hilton’s Home2 Suites by Hilton with 421 projects/43,816 rooms, IHG’s Holiday Inn Express with 380 projects/36,329 rooms and Marriott’s Fairfield Inn with 315 projects/30,336 rooms. These three brands dominate the total pipeline and combined represent 20 percent of the projects.
In the first quarter of 2020, 144 new hotels (16,305 rooms) opened across the United States. Of
