Welcome to the 8th edition of our annual survey of the hotel chains' development activity in Africa. We first produced the survey in 2009, with contributions from 19 international and regional hotel chains, who reported between them a pipeline of 144 hotels and almost 30,000 rooms.

Welcome to the 7th edition of our annual survey of the international hotel chain development intentions and activities in Africa. We are pleased that this survey has received increasing attention from investors, hospitality and real estate professionals, and other parties interested in the Africa growth story, including the hotel chains themselves, and has become acknowledged as an authoritative source on the African hotel industry.

Trevor Ward, Managing Director of W Hospitality Group, was delighted to have been asked by the publishers to contribute once again to the prestigious Hotel Yearbook 2015.  He was asked to write the introduction to the Africa section, and his theme was that, although a record number of deals for new hotels are being signed by the international hotel chains, too few of those deals are not actually moving to realization.

Click here to read Trevor’s recommendations to overcome this logjam.

The full publication is available at www.hotel-yearbook.com

Welcome to the sixth edition of our annual survey of the international hotel chains' development intentions and activities in Africa – the Pipeline Report. Our research tracks hotel development deals in the 54 countries of Africa. There are of course, other deals being discussed besides those listed in our report, which we will include, hopefully, in future surveys; this one includes only those deals that are signed and confirmed – although not necessarily yet actually under construction, as this report shows.