September 6, 2017 – PORTSMOUTH, NH – According to the recent United States Construction Pipeline Trend Report from Lodging Econometrics (LE), the franchise companies with the largest pipelines are; Marriott with 1,288 Projects/166,096 Rooms, Hilton with 1,243 Projects/140,912 Rooms and IHG with 817 Projects/84,676 Rooms. These 3 franchise companies comprise 67% of all projects in the Total Pipeline.
The largest brand for each of these companies are; Marriott’s Fairfield Inn with 283 Projects/27,244 Rooms, Hilton’s Home2 Suites with 343 Projects/35,845 Rooms and IHG’s Holiday Inn Express with 426 Projects/39,393 Rooms.
The companies with the most New Project Announcements into the Pipeline in the first half were; Marriott with 90 Projects/11,085 Rooms, IHG with 73 Projects/7,025 Rooms and Hilton with 59 Projects/6,097 Rooms. These companies represent 62% of all new projects announced.