FHS Egypt is hosting a webinar on the May 21 exploring investment trends in Egypt, development pipelines, financing realities, and the market’s future outlook.
The webinar titled Egypt’s Hospitality Market: Between Global Ambition and Local Reality will have the following presenters: Hala Matar Choufany, President - HVS Middle East, Africa and South Asia; Alain Debare, Partner - Head of Investments and Asset Management, HVS Middle East and Africa; Maged Salah, Managing Director, Misr Abu Dhabi for Real Estate Investments; and Dr Ghada Shalaby, Former Vice Minister, Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities of Egypt.
Interested can now register for the webinar.
Egypt leads Africa’s hospitality investment market with 185 hotels and nearly 46,000 rooms in the pipeline.
The webinar will explore the areas of real opportunities and returns on investments.
Meanwhile, Africa's chain hotel development pipeline has reached a record high of 675 hotels and 123,846 rooms as of early 2026, representing an 18.6% increase year-on-year, according to the 18th annual Hotel Chain Development Pipelines in Africa report published by W Hospitality Group. Egypt represents 37.1% of the entire African pipeline.
North Africa as a whole now commands 50% of all pipeline rooms across the continent, with its pipeline growing 27% year-on-year - well over double the 11% growth recorded in sub-Saharan Africa. The North African pipeline stands at 284 hotels and 62,630 rooms, drawing from four active development markets: Egypt, Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia. There is no current development pipeline in Libya.
Egypt's dominance is reflected across every metric. With 185 planned hotels and resorts, it commands four times more rooms than second-placed Morocco. Its pipeline grew 35.5% in a single year, driven by 53 new deals signed in 2025 alone, more than any other country on the continent.
Greater Cairo has the largest urban hotel pipeline of any city in Africa, with 22,111 planned rooms across 88 projects representing 18% of the entire continental pipeline. The world's major hotel groups are betting heavily on Egypt: Accor has 28 hotels in its Cairo pipeline, Marriott International 20, Hilton 18 and IHG 14, the 4 together totalling 16,400 rooms in the city.
Egypt's Red Sea resorts are equally compelling. Sharm El Sheikh has nine pipeline projects with an average size of 539 rooms — the largest resort average in Africa's top 10. Marsa Alam has 14 planned resorts, 53% of which are due to open this year and next. Ain Sokhna brings a further 15 projects to the pipeline, predominantly driven by Kerten Hospitality with seven projects. Egypt’s North Coast, on the Mediterranean, is opening up, with considerable development activity in Alexandria.
