Over the past decade, the room inventory of U.S. hotel chains has grown more rapidly than that of independent hotels. Current trends indicate this growth will continue as 80.7 percent of rooms currently under construction represent chains. In 2010, hotel chains accounted for 68 percent of the total U.S. room supply. Today, chains comprise 73 percent of the nation’s total. Currently, there are 760,000 hotel rooms in various stages of planning, final planning, or construction, […]

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