The hotel business, briefed weekly: deals, openings, results and the numbers that move them, with a close eye on India.
Hotelivate and Savills put India's five-year branded pipeline at 1,61,074 rooms, equal to about 77% of the branded rooms operating today. Close to 1,17,000 are already under active development, and about four in five are planned outside the Tier 1 cities.
Demand is keeping pace for now. Occupancy stood at 68.1%, room rates rose 6.4% and RevPAR grew 6.2%. Bengaluru and Hyderabad led growth among the 20 large markets, while Goa and Amritsar slipped.
Source: TravelBiz Monitor, 20 Oct 2026