London is Europe's Hotel Construction Capital
TOPHOTELPROJECTS: British metropolis with 41 hotel projects - hotel investment front runner - Moscow with 29 new hotels in second place
Hamburg, Germany - December 17, 2012 -London, Moscow, Berlin and Hamburg are Europe's hotel investment hot spots. According to TOPHOTELPROJECTS, the worldwide leading provider of global b2b hotel data, the British capital currently counts 41 new top hotels with 8,100 rooms in the project pipeline. Moscow, with a population of 11,6 million by far Europe's largest city, comes in second place: 29 new hotels (7,600 rooms) are planned in this city. With 24 hotel construction projects (6,200 rooms), Berlin can be found in third position, closely followed by Hamburg with 23 new planned hotels (4,500 rooms). In Istanbul, Europe's second largest city, currently counts 21 new hotel projects (5,400 rooms). In Paris 18 top hotel projects (9,800 rooms) are on register.

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Top 20 cities in Europe (population / top hotel projects)
Moscow - population: 11,6 million - 29 new hotel projects with 7,600 rooms
Istanbul - population: 8,5 million - 21 hotel projects (5,400 rooms)
London - population: 8,1 million inhabitants - 41 hotel projects (8,100 rooms)
St. Petersburg - 4,8 million - 6 hotel projects (1,100 rooms)
Berlin - population: 3,5 million - 24 hotel projects (6,200 rooms)
Madrid - population:3,2 million - 7 hotel projects (625 rooms)
Kiev - population: 2,8 million - 10 hotel projects (2,700 rooms)
Rom - population: 2,7 million - 5 hotel projects (1,600 rooms)
Paris - population: 2,2 million - 18 hotel projects (9,800 rooms)
Minsk - population: 1,88 million - 7 hotel projects (1,700 Zimmer)
Hamburg - population: 1,83 million - 23 hotel projects (4,500 rooms)
Budapest - population: 1,73 Million - 6 hotel projects (1,700 rooms)
Vienna - population: 1,73 million - 14 hotel projects (2,700 rooms)
Warsaw - population: 1,70 million - 6 hotel projects (1,500 rooms)
Bucharest - population: 1,67 million - 2 hotel projects (467 rooms)
Barcelona - population: 1,61 million - 8 hotel projects (962 rooms)
Kharkov - population: 1,4 million - no hotel projects currently on register
Munich - population: 1,37 million - 1 hotel projects (184 rooms)
Malian - population: 1,32 million - 4 hotel projects (780 rooms)
Sofia - population: population: 1,29 million - 1 hotel projects (200 rooms)
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