There are lots of different brands of hotel around but have you ever wondered which is the biggest? Well according to their recently published annual hotel rankings, the accommodation analyst MKG Hospitality has confirmed it is Best Western.

 

Possessing some 307,155 rooms in its hotel portfolio it is significantly larger than the next biggest, the Holiday Inn which offers 230,117 rooms. The Marriott comes in third with 204,019 rooms. The fastest growing is French budget brand Ibis, which added, over the course of the previous 12 months, 5.1% more rooms, taking their current total to 107,735 in 900 hotels.

 

The full list of the top 20 global hotel brands are as follows.

 

 

1. Best Western

 

2. Holiday Inn

 

3. Marriott Hotels & Resorts

 

4. Comfort Inns

 

5. Hilton

 

6. Holiday Inn Express

 

7. Hampton Inn

 

8. Days Inn of America

 

9. Sheraton Hotels and Resorts

 

10. Super 8 Motels

 

 

11. Courtyard

 

12. Quality Inns, Hotels and Suites

 

13. Ramada Worldwide

 

14. Ibis

 

15. Motel 6

 

16. Crowne Plaza

 

17. Hyatt Hotels

 

18. Radisson Hotels

 

19. Home Inns

 

20. Mercure

 

 

The largest hotel chain, in case you are wondering  is the British company, InterContinental, owner of such major brands as the Holiday Inn, Crowne Plaza and InterContinental. In total they offer a massive 647,161 rooms around the world which is just under 35,000 more than Wyndham Hotels in second place and just over 40,000 more than the third placed Hilton.