The World Travel & Tourism Council’s (WTTC) 2024 Economic Impact Research (EIR) has today revealed that Vietnam’s Travel & Tourism sector is forecast to inject a record đ770.8TN into the national economy this year.
Projects in the early planning stage of the global hotel construction pipeline reach record high counts
Lodging Econometrics (LE) has released its Q4 year-end Global Construction Pipeline Trend Report. At the close of 2022, LE analysts state that the total global construction pipeline stands at 14,267 projects, a 4% increase year-over-year (YOY), with 2,298,846 rooms. The global pipeline has remained relatively flat for three consecutive years, following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, after reaching peak project and room counts in Q4 2019. However, three of the seven world regions tracked by LE, the United States, Canada, and Asia Pacific, continue to have pipelines trending upward, YOY. The remaining regions stayed largely unchanged by project counts YOY.