PORTSMOUTH, NH – According to recent reports, analysts at Lodging Econometrics (LE) state that the five U.S. markets with the largest hotel construction pipelines by project count are: New York with 181 Projects/30,225 Rooms; Houston with 148 Projects/16,398 Rooms; Dallas with 143 Projects/17,580 Rooms; Nashville, which hit a cyclical peak this quarter, has 124 Projects/16,699 Rooms; and Los Angeles has 112 Projects/16,780 Rooms.

New York has the most New Hotel Openings forecasted for 2017 with 39 Hotels/6,128 Rooms, then Dallas, which is expected to open 37 Hotels/4,510 Rooms followed by Houston with 27 Hotels/2,828 Rooms. New York is also forecasted to open the most hotels in 2018 with 48 Projects/7,905 Rooms and in 2019, with 35 Projects/5,046 Rooms.

The markets with the most New Project Announcements into the Pipeline in the last 12 months are: New York with 59 Projects/9,563 Rooms, Dallas with 54 Projects/7,142 Rooms, and Orlando with 40 Projects/11,394 Rooms.

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Emily Dennison
Lodging Econometrics