Top 10 African countries with the biggest investments in the hotel business in 2025

Within the current 2025 Resort Chain Improvement Pipelines in Africa report by W Hospitality Group, this topic was extensively mentioned, displaying that the African lodge chain improvement pipeline now consists of 577 resorts and 104,444 rooms, representing a 13.3% progress over the earlier 12 months.

A lodge chain improvement pipeline refers back to the complete variety of resorts being deliberate, constructed, or ready for opening by a lodge model or group.

Resort manufacturers have inked partnerships in 42 African nations, with West Africa main with 13 (out of 16), adopted by the Southern & Indian Ocean sub-region with 12 international locations within the pipeline. This 12 months, it added the Comoros and Somalia.

Within the present iteration of the report, Egypt continues to dominate the African pipeline, accounting for 32.5% of complete rooms this 12 months, up from 28% final 12 months, and 4 occasions the quantity of rooms in second-place Morocco.

The report goes forward to disclose that almost all African nations have witnessed secure year-on-year progress, with Ethiopia and Tanzania returning to progress following a drop in numbers final 12 months, thanks partly to 6 new openings totaling over 700 rooms.

Moreover, Tanzania has proven super share progress within the pipeline, with 18 agreements within the earlier two years, seven of which had been in Zanzibar.

An equal quantity was signed in nationwide parks such because the Serengeti and Ngorongoro, however with far fewer common rooms – 23 per lodge in opposition to 151 in every Zanzibar resort.

Regardless of the massive variety of alternatives in 2024, Morocco’s pipeline continues to extend, notably in Casablanca, Marrakech, Rabat, and Tangier.

With that stated, listed here are the biggest lodge investments at present, as per the Resort Chain Improvement Pipelines in Africa report.