LE’s Initial Forecast for 2009 Predicts that 1,354 Hotels with 159,368 Rooms Will Open in the U.S.
Portsmouth, N.H. | Lodging Econometrics (LE), the Global Authority for Hotel Real Estate, in its mid-year report to the Lodging Industry has just released the highly anticipated Forecast for New Hotel Openings in 2009. LE predicts that 1,354 new hotels having 159,368 rooms will open in ’09: a gross growth rate of 3.3% for that year, likely to net to slightly less than 3% after accounting for hotel closings and other removals from the industry’s Census.