Research by W Hospitality Group, the award-winning consultancy and among the many founding members of Hotel Partners Africa (HPA), reveals that the variety of planned new hotel rooms within the Hotel Development Pipeline in Africa has increased by 16 per cent on last year, which was 12 per cent up on 2011.  It’s in accordance with a sample of 29 international hotel chains, with 59 brands between them, and analyses deals that they’ve signed with owners. As in previous years, the detail behind the headline shows a different tale of 2 Africas. In North Africa, the event pipeline grew by 9 per cent, from 17,217 planned new hotelrooms in 2012 to 18,782 rooms in 77 hotels in 2013.  In sub-Saharan Africa, however, the chains’ pipeline now stands at 21,052 rooms...
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