When it involves lodge improvement throughout Africa, Egypt and Marriott are the 2 phenomena to look at. This perception comes from this yr’s African Hotel Chain Development Pipeline report, extensively acknowledged because the business’s most authoritative supply, documenting and analyzing the variety of resorts being deliberate and constructed throughout the continent.
The survey, carried out by Lagos-based W Hospitality Group, in affiliation with the Africa Hospitality Investment Forum (AHIF), relies on responses from 45 world and regional (African) lodge chains, reporting on a pipeline of lodge improvement exercise totaling round 84,400 rooms in 482 resorts, in 42 of Africa’s 54 international locations.
North Africa continues to dominate the pipeline, with Egypt far forward. It alone numbers 21% of the resorts and 30% of the rooms being deliberate or constructed on all the continent.
West Africa’s share of the overall is barely down this yr, regardless of having the most important variety of international locations. After a number of years of slumber, Central Africa is rising its share, significantly in Cameroon and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
The prime ten international locations characterize 68% of resorts within the survey, and 74% of the rooms.
Egypt not solely leads the nation desk, with nearly 25,000 rooms in 103 resorts, however is streaking forward of the pack, with greater than thrice the variety of rooms being developed in second-placed Nigeria, and 4 occasions Morocco and Ethiopia.
Despite its clear management within the absolute pipeline numbers, Egypt has the bottom proportion of rooms onsite on account of its comparatively “young” pipeline. Of the overall 103 initiatives, half had been signed in 2020 and later, and that’s practically 60% of the rooms.
In distinction, Morocco and Algeria have among the highest ratios of rooms below development on the continent. After Egypt, Nigeria has fairly a low proportion onsite, and, of the 22 resorts which have began development there, eight of them, with about half of the “onsite” rooms, have stalled (typically on account of a scarcity of funds) and the websites are closed.
On a metropolis foundation, Greater Cairo has by far the most important share, 12% of all the pipeline, adopted by Sharm El Sheikh and Addis Ababa.
