According to the recent United States Construction Pipeline Trend Report from Lodging Econometrics (LE), the franchise companies with the largest construction pipelines are: Marriott with 1,383 Projects/177,926 Rooms, Hilton with 1,337 Projects/149,075 Rooms and IHG with 923 Projects/94,296 Rooms. These 3 franchise companies comprise 69% of all projects in the Total Pipeline.
The largest brands for each of these companies are: Marriott’s Fairfield Inn with 293 Projects/28,418 Rooms and TownePlace Suites with 206 Projects/21,193 Rooms; Hilton’s Home2 Suites with 377 Projects/39,474 Rooms and Hampton Inn & Suites with 316 Projects/32,132 Rooms; and IHG’s Holiday Inn Express with 438 Projects/40,657 Rooms, the largest brand pipeline in the country, and Staybridge Suites with 139 Projects/14,740 Rooms.
By the close of 2018, Marriott is forecasted to open 348 Projects/43,415 Rooms, Hilton is set to open 296 projects/33,171 Rooms and IHG expects 172 Projects/18,031 Rooms to open. Marriott also leads in new openings for 2019 with 336 Projects/42,286 Rooms, Hilton is anticipating 281 Projects/30,983 Rooms to open next year and IHG expects 230 Projects/22,807 Rooms.
