When it comes to hotel development across Africa in 2024, just five words tell the story, 'Egypt and the Big 5'. In this context, 'the Big 5' does not refer to Africa's major wildlife attractions, (lion, leopard, rhinoceros, elephant and buffalo) but to the global hotel chains – Accor, Hilton, IHG, Marriott International and Radisson Hotel Group. This year's African Hotel Chain Development Pipeline report, widely acknowledged as the industry's most authoritative source, documenting and analysing the number of hotels being planned and built across the continent, reports a market share of 28% for Egypt and 71% for the Big 5 global chains.

This is the 15th edition of our annual Hotel Chain Development Pipelines in Africa survey and analysis. This year
we recorded data from 45 international and regional hotel chains (some with nil returns), reporting their pipeline
activity for 119 of their brands for which they have signed deals in Africa.

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.

This is the 13th edition of our annual Hotel Chain Development Pipelines in Africa report and analysis. That number is unlucky for some, but as usual we are not dealing with luck, instead some very hard work, by the hotel brands and by the investors that they engage with, in very hard times. This report is something of a curate's egg, parts of the news it contains are excellent, but sorry to say that, in addition, there are some bad points to convey

Hotel Chain Development Pipelines in Africa 20203
Our 12th edition of the Hotel Chain Development Pipelines in Africa brings news of a continuing increase in the
chains' development activity in Africa. The pipeline now sits at 77,896 rooms in 408 hotels, up 3.6 per cent on
2019

It is with great pleasure that we present the 2018 edition of our annual Hotel Chain Development Pipelines in Africa. This is our 10th edition, and we present it with a sense of achievement and pride,

Terrorism is an unfortunate “fact of life” that has plagued society throughout the whole of the last two millennia. In recent years an increasing number of attacks, across a wider part of the world, have led to a changing dynamic in relation to the impact of such attacks.

In this research paper David Harper, Head of Property Services for Hotel Partners Africa, provides some unique research on the impact of such terror attacks, with the help of hotel trading statistics and analysis, carried out by STR.

The impact of terrorism on the hotel and resort market in Africa has been substantial over the last few years, making the need for careful analysis of the phenomena essential.

The research bears out the following 13, important conclusions, with some significant implications for how countries and the Travel & Tourism industry deal with terror attacks:

1.    The impact of terror attacks across the world is lessening

2.    There has been a marked rise in terror attacks in recent years

3.    The average casualty count has declined in recent years

4.    In general, international tourism is resilient to terrorism

5.    Recovery times for all types of locations are improving

6.    Recovery time depends on the profile and scale of the market place

7.    The impact of terrorism varies by political regime, income and tourism intensity

8.    The long-term impact depends on the public perception of safety and on the trust placed in the authorities in that location

9.    Political unrest has a longer-term impact than a terrorist attack

10. Frequency of attacks has a greater effect than the severity of an attack

11. The coverage in the media has an important impact on trading

12. The impact of an attack tends to be region-wide, so there is a financial imperative on neighbouring countries to try and stop any attacks being made on their neighbours

13. On average you are five times as likely to die by falling out of bed than you are to die as a result of a terrorist attack

For further information or for a copy of the full research paper, please contact David Harper at [email protected]

Welcome to the 2017 edition of our annual Hotel Chain Development Pipelines in Africa. This ninth edition of our annual survey has 36 international and regional contributors, reporting pipeline activity of almost 73,000 rooms in 417 hotels, a 13 per cent increase on the 2016 pipeline.