Spain-based Room Mate Hotels is on track to double its hotel portfolio from 1,522 guestrooms to more than 3,052 by 2019. The hotel chain has already signed 11 hotel projects in new destinations, including Rome, Paris, Naples, the Canary Islands, Mallorca and Lisbon. This expansion follows Room Mate’s 180.5-percent growth in 2017. Read the Hotel Management online story here