There are 501 hotels totalling 144,321 rooms under contract in the Middle East and 285 hotels totaling 53,093 rooms under contract in Africa. Lastly, there are 427 hotels totaling 67,530 rooms under contract in the Central/South America region, according to the November 2015 STR Global Construction Pipeline Report.
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The global winds are more likely to affect the warm ocean currents because they are surface currents, while the cold currents are deep.