Haiti, Anguilla, St Kitts and Nevis Lead Caribbean Pipeline Growth

By: - December 12th, 2012

Above: the Viceroy Anguilla

By the Caribbean Journal staff

The Caribbean/Mexico hotel development pipeline includes 122 hotels comprising 18,944 rooms, according to the November STR Construction Pipeline Report.

Haiti reported the largest expected growth in the region, with a 95.7 percent increase to 798 rooms, followed by Anguilla, with an improvement of 30.9 percent with 220 rooms and St Kitts and Nevis, with expected growth of 27.5 percent and 435 rooms.

For more on some of Haiti’s new projects, click here.

The Bahamas reported expected growth of 17.9 percent with 2,488 rooms, while Dominica showed 15.9 percent improvement with 100 rooms.

Aruba’s pipeline improved by 15.4 percent with 980 rooms.

The total active pipeline includes projects in the In Construction, Final Planning and Planning stages but does not include projects in the Pre-Planning Stages.

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