NEW YORK - The Blackstone Group announcement that it will purchase Hilton Hotels for $26 billion sent shares of other hotel companies sharply higher Wednesday amid speculation that they also might...
I doubt that there would be reliable statistics. Partly it would depend on how you define 'hotel'. Would you include fairly primitive lodges in places where 'western-style' hotels don't exist?
This is a very difficult question to answer because the hotel chains with the most hotels are not necessarily chains in the correct sense of the word. For example, Best Western has over 4,000 hotels...