This is the 14th edition of our annual Hotel Chain Development Pipelines in Africa report and analysis, and the third to be produced in the throes of the COVID-19 pandemic. Happily, it does appear that we are at the beginning of the end of the pandemic – the Africa CDC (an agency of the African Union) reported that as of mid-February 2022 The overall daily reported number of new cases across the continent is on a downward trend.