【World Property Journal】Asia Pacific Hotel Investment Accelerates as Tourism Demand Grows

Asia-Pacific hotel investment accelerated in the first half of 2026 as resilient travel demand, rising room rates and a shrinking development pipeline strengthened the sector's appeal to investors, according to CBRE.

Hotel transactions reached about $8 billion in the six months through June, 21% above the year-earlier period, with Japan, mainland China and South Korea leading activity. Mainland China posted the sharpest rebound, with investment volume more than doubling from a year earlier, helped in part by the expansion of China's real-estate investment trust framework to include four-star-and-above hotels.

READ MORE