STR Global: UAE leads with rooms under construction

The Middle East and Africa hotel development pipeline comprised 490 hotels totalling 118,820 rooms for November 2013. These statistics were disclosed as per STR’s Global Construction Pipeline Report. Among the countries in the region, UAE reported largest number of rooms under construction with 18,057 rooms. Six other countries reported more than 2,000 rooms under construction: Saudi Arabia (16,666 rooms); Qatar (4,944 rooms); Egypt (3,144 rooms); Jordan (2,931 rooms); Morocco (2,287 rooms); and Algeria (2,071 rooms). The total active pipeline data includes projects in the In Construction, Final Planning and Planning stages but does not include projects in the Pre-Planning stage. Source: Travel Daily