NEWS| India has 45,323 rooms in the pipeline

The June 2009 Asia Pacific hotel development pipeline compiled by STR Global includes 969 hotels with 227,567 rooms. Among the key markets, Shanghai, China, reported 13,706 rooms in total active pipeline.

story continues below>>



Three other markets with more than 5,000 rooms in the total active pipeline for the month are: Mumbai, India, which ended the month with 9,391 rooms; Bangkok, Thailand, with 8,622 rooms and Beijing, China with 5,800 rooms. The three markets that reported less than 500 rooms in the total active pipeline are: Osaka, Japan (274 rooms); Tokyo, Japan (160 rooms); and Brisbane, Australia (156 rooms).

“There is lot of development in Asia, but there are a couple of countries that are dominating.

One is China, where 108,346 rooms are in the active pipeline, 77,832 of which are under construction. The second is India, which has 45,323 rooms in the total active pipeline,” said Duane Vinson, Vice President of Content Management, STR.



TEXT!!!