Lodging Econometrics’ (LE’s) Q2 2025 Lodge Building Pipeline Development Report said that the overall pipeline ascended to a record-high 15,871 initiatives with 2,436,225 rooms, up 3 p.c by initiatives and a couple of p.c by rooms year-over-year (YOY).
Worldwide, on the shut of the second quarter, there have been 6,257 initiatives/1,086,245 rooms below development, unchanged on a share foundation by initiatives and down 3 p.c by rooms YOY. Tasks scheduled to begin development within the subsequent 12 months decreased 3 p.c YOY by initiatives however elevated 1 p.c by rooms to face at 3,870 initiatives/551,188 rooms on the shut of the quarter. Tasks within the early strategy planning stage reached a record-high 5,744 initiatives with 798,792 rooms, marking a ten p.c enhance in initiatives and a 9 p.c enhance in rooms, YOY.
Accounting for 52 p.c of the initiatives within the complete pipeline, the higher midscale and upscale chain scales dominated the worldwide resort development pipeline challenge counts at Q2. Of that 52 p.c, higher midscale resort initiatives comprised 4,463 initiatives and 567,396 rooms within the complete international pipeline, unchanged on a share foundation by initiatives and down 1 p.c by rooms YOY. Upscale initiatives and rooms marked record-highs in Q2, with 3,852 initiatives and 655,674 rooms, up 5 p.c by initiatives and three p.c by rooms YOY. Notably, at Q2, higher upscale initiatives reached a record-high 1,807 initiatives with 385,396 rooms, up 6 p.c by initiatives and 1 p.c by rooms YOY. Luxurious initiatives and rooms totals additionally reached record-high counts at Q2. This marked an 11 p.c YOY enhance in initiatives and a 9 p.c YOY enhance in rooms, to face at 1,267 initiatives/245,665 rooms.
On the finish of Q2, the highest nations by challenge depend had been the USA, with 6,280 initiatives and 737,036 rooms, and China, with 3,733 initiatives and 672,224 rooms. The U.S. accounted for 40 p.c of the initiatives within the international pipeline, whereas China accounted for twenty-four p.c, leading to 64 p.c of the worldwide pipeline being concentrated inside these two nations. Following carefully had been India, with a record-high depend of 761 initiatives and 99,195 rooms, Saudi Arabia with 342 initiatives and 92,187 rooms, and Canada with 333 initiatives and 44,764 rooms.
All over the world, the cities with the most important pipelines by complete initiatives within the pipeline had been Dallas, Texas, with 199 initiatives and a record-high 24,497 rooms, Atlanta, Georgia, with 165 initiatives with 19,027 rooms, and Chengdu, China, with 143 initiatives/25,331 rooms. Nashville, Tennessee, adopted with 128 initiatives/17,025 rooms, after which Austin, Texas, reached record-highs of 125 initiatives and 14,598 rooms.
The primary half of 2025 noticed 970 new motels/138,168 rooms open all over the world, with an extra 1,884 new motels/280,079 rooms scheduled to open by year-end. LE analysts forecast a complete of two,854 new motels with 418,247 rooms to open in 2025. With the worldwide pipeline initiatives at an all-time excessive, LE forecast that new resort openings will proceed with 2,531 new motels/382,942 rooms anticipated to open by year-end 2026. LE analysts additionally forecast 2,554 new motels/382,282 rooms to open worldwide by year-end 2027.
