According to the recent Middle East Construction Pipeline from Lodging Econometrics, the region's total pipeline has 518 hotels with 138,977 rooms in various stages of development, up 13 percent by hotels year-over-year. There are 318 hotels with 86,871 rooms under construction, up 22 percent by hotels year-over-year. Hotels scheduled to start construction in the next 12 months are at 117 hotels with 29,152 rooms, up 41 percent, while hotels in the early planning stage are at

Each year, The Counselors of Real Estate, a real estate professionals organization established in 1953, unveils its top 10 issues affecting real estate. Members contribute to development of the issues by participating in the CRE External Affairs (Issues and Trends) initiative. On its release, HOTEL MANAGEMENT discussed the 2017-18 list with Warren Marr, managing director at PwC, who was instrumental in putting it together. While some of the trends and issues on the list were