TOP 10 LARGEST HOTEL GROUPS OF THE WORLD

With more than 7500 hotels and over 14 000 rooms in 2021, Marriott International is the world’s largest hotel chain. Between 2020 and 2021 the amount of rooms increased from 1,358,400 to 1,400,289 room which is a growth of 3.1%.

With more hotels than Marriott International, but with a less amount of rooms, Jin Jiang is the second-largest hotel chain in the world when looking at the room supply. In 2021 the Chinese company Jin Jiang operated more than 10,000 hotels with almost 1,100,000 rooms. The growth was 6.7% compared to last year.

Hilton Hotels is the third-largest hotel chain in the world. More than 600 hotels were added to its portfolio between 2020 and 2021. The growth of this group remains strong mainly in the US, Hilton’s home country. In 2021 Hilton Hotels operated 1,010,257 rooms which is a 4.9% increase from last year.

IHG was for many years the largest hotel chain in the world, today the group is No. 4 worldwide. The growth was only 0.3% between 2020 and 2021. InterContinental Hotel Group has almost 6000 hotels and  886,036 rooms in its portfolio.

Wyndham Hotel Group is the world’s fifth-largest. This US hotel chain has had a 4.2% decrease in its rooms supply, which makes it the only western hotel chain in the top 10 with a lower amount of rooms compared to last year. In 2021 Wyndham Hotel Group owns 8,941 hotels with 795,909 rooms.

This French hotel chain has more than 5000 hotels all over the world. Accor Group’s amount of rooms are more than 750,000, with annual growth of 3.1% in room supply. The growth has been steady for many years, for example, Accor Group also had a growth of about 3% between 2019 and 2020.

Huazhu is another Chinese hotel group with a big amount of hotels and rooms in its portfolio. The chain operates almost 7000 hotels and has a room supply of 607,137 rooms. The growth compared to 2020 has been extremely high and between 2020 and 2021 the room supply growth was 23.2%.

Recording a global room supply growth of 1.2%, American franchiser Choice Hotels has not moved from its 8th position in the ranking. In 2021 the hotel chain owns 7,147 hotels with a total room supply of 597,977 rooms. Choice hotels operates in over 40 countries all over the world.

OYO is an Indian hotel chain which has been in a lot of trouble the last year. The room supply has decreased with 54.3% since last year. The company has had some really big problems in China and Europe which has caused this huge loss in room supply. Comparing to the 2020 hotel chains top 10 rank, OYO has lost 7 positions and is now down on position 9. OYO still operates more than 20,000 hotels with 449,000 rooms.

BTH Hotels is the third Chinese hotel chain on the top 10 list. This chain has, just as Jin Jiang and Huazhu, had a high growth compared to 2020. The rooms supply grew with 6.6% between 2020 and 2021.