How Many Hotels are operating in Africa Today?
There are currently more than 56,110 hotels in Africa.
But these are all accommodation properties regardless of quality, standards or accessibility.
The number of such accommodation properties listed on the continent reached 56,108 Hotels by the first day of April, 2026.
The number marked a 4.27 percent increase from the tally taken back in 2023.
Of these locations, 54249 Hotels, accounting for 96.69 percent of all properties in Africa are single-owner operations, while the remaining 1859 which is 3.31 percent are part of larger brands.
But broadly, Africa’s most sought-after destinations for new hotel projects are Egypt, Nigeria, Morocco, Ethiopia, and Cape Verde.
The largest project being planned is an 1,800-room resort by Turkish company Rixos in Sharm El Sheikh, one of Egypt’s most notable resort towns.
Of these some 550 hotels are top luxury brands.
Average age of Hotels in Africa is 5 years and 11 months.
Hotels are also establishing a strong digital presence across various social media and digital platforms.
As of 2026 some 1424 hotels have LinkedIn profiles, 6349 have Facebook Pages, 4453 are active on Instagram, 2519 have X (formerly Twitter) handles, while 200 are on TikTok, and 1833 others have YouTube channels.
About 14,429 Hotels have their own website while the remaining 41,679 properties do not run their own websites yet.
Apparently, only about 34,242 hotels in Africa have easily accessible contact phone numbers.
Many have email accounts but few ever bother to respond to inquiries sent via these addresses.
The world’s largest hotel chains, including multiple American majors, are behind the rising number of newly planned hotel and resort projects in Africa.
At the end of 2023, international hospitality chains had 524 hotels with over 92,000 rooms in their pipelines across 41 African countries, due to a 9.2 percent increase in new deals from the previous year.
Multinationals such as Marriott, Hilton, Radisson, from the United States and French chain Accor have the most newly commissioned hotel projects in Africa, to date.
With IHG Hotels, a British chain, the five companies account for two in three hotel projects across the continent, W Hospitality’s latest tally shows.
These hospitality groups and 42 others have active deals in 41 African countries to build hotels or resorts.
Resorts have become of particular interest with new deals increasing 32 percent.
The Zanzibar Islands of Tanzania typified the interest in new resorts with a doubling of new signed projects over the past year.