Hotel construction remains steady – despite the vagaries of the larger economy – seeing just over 6,200 projects now being built.
Those projects, according to the most recent statistics compiled by the firm Lodging Econometrics, represent a total of 728,416 rooms.
In the firm’s Q3 2025 U.S. Hotel Construction Pipeline Trend Report it is also noted that projects in the initial planning stage now stand at 2,853, accounting for nearly 332,000 rooms.
Pipeline projects appear to be the strongest in what is described as the “upper midscale chain” sector, with nearly 2,300 projects and 219,385 rooms. The “upscale chain scale” is seeing 1,383 projects and just over 172,000 rooms.
Significantly less activity is seen in the “midscale segment,” seeing 947 projects and nearly 79,000 rooms.
“Combined,” the report notes, the top three chain scales by the actual number of projects “account for 65% of all projects in the total pipeline.”
The Lodging Econometric report comes as the real estate data provider CoStar is saying that projects in the final planning stage are off by 3.5% over where things stood exactly a year ago. This means, says the CoStar document, that hotel room construction is off by 80,000 from the booming third quarter of 2020.
Yet a third report just released by the Nashville-based commercial real estate services Matthews, is predicting that for 2026 the hospitality industry itself will prove resilient with “luxury and economy segments” seeing the most activity. That segment very much is made up of “corporate travelers aiding high-end demand and visitors on a budget seeking economy stays.”
October 28, 2025
By Garry Boulard
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