Last week, we took a look at what cities and what brands are leading China’s hotel scene. But while global brands are eager to grow their Chinese footprints, overall development across the country is on a decline.
According to the recent China Construction Pipeline Trend Report from Lodging Econometrics, China’s total pipeline has 2,329 hotels and 536,042 rooms in development, down 10 percent by projects and 4 percent by rooms year-over-year. This marks the seventh quarter of modest decline from the peak established in in the fourth quarter of 2014.