The Accor group's strong growth (+3.21TP3Q) in the number of rooms has enabled it to extend its lead at the top of the 2012 rankings published this week by MKG Hospitality. With more than 250,000 rooms, the French group has almost three times as many rooms as Best Western (8,9743), which is in second place ahead of IHG (8,6780). However, the biggest gains were made by Carlson Rezidor (+4.6%), which climbed to 5th place, Hilton (+4.8%) and above all Whitbread, whose double-digit growth (+11%) pushed the group up three places to seventh.
