This is the 13th edition of our annual Hotel Chain Development Pipelines in Africa report and analysis. That number is unlucky for some, but as usual we are not dealing with luck, instead some very hard work, by the hotel brands and by the investors that they engage with, in very hard times. This report is something of a curate’s egg, parts of the news it contains are excellent, but sorry to say that, in addition, there are some bad points to convey.