We calculate that the 29 hotel chains in the survey currently have almost 90,000 rooms operating in Africa, with around 48,000 in North Africa and 41,000 in sub-Saharan Africa. That is clearly imbalanced, with 5 countries in the former and 49 in the latter, but not surprising, due to the tourism development that has taken place in North Africa, particularly in Morocco, Tunisia and Egypt. However, the pace of new development is faster in sub-Saharan Africa than it is in North Africa, with more rooms in the development pipeline below the Sahara than above it for the first time since we commenced this survey in 2009.