Washington’s Hotel Supply Is Growing

Among the new hospitality names checking in to Washington this year: The Trump International Hotel Washington, D.C.; the Pod D.C., and the MGM National Harbor.

They are among 14 new hotels scheduled to open in the region in 2016, adding more than 2,200 rooms to the local lineup. An additional 16 hotels are slated to open next year, up from 11 openings in 2015, according to data from Lodging Econometrics, a research firm based in Portsmouth, NH, and reported by The Washington Post.

The flurry in hotel openings comes seven years after the country suffered the worst recession in decades.

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