InterContinental Hotels Group PLC (IHG) is a global hotel group that operates and franchises more than 4,400 hotels with more than 660,000 rooms in more than 100 countries and territories worldwide.
“InterContinental’s hotel brands are InterContinental Hotels & Resorts, Holiday Inn, Crowne Plaza Hotels, Holiday Inn Express, and Holiday Inn Express. Holiday Inn Express, and Indigo.
Founded in 1777, InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) is currently the world’s largest and most widely distributed network of professional hotel management group, with InterContinental, Crowne Plaza, Holiday Inn and other internationally renowned hotel brands and more than 60 years of international hotel management experience. At the same time, IHG is also the super hotel group with the largest number of rooms in the world (up to 650,000), the widest scope of multinational operation, distributed in nearly 100 countries, and the largest number of hotels taken over in China. It includes 25 provinces, districts and cities in mainland China.In December 2018, the World Brand Lab released the list of 2018 Top 500 World Brands, and InterContinental Hotels ranked 456th.
In 1777, the British Bath (BASS) Group was founded, becoming the first British group with an independent registered trademark. At the beginning of its establishment, the Bass Group mainly focused on the production and sale of beverages and beer. By the end of the 1980s, it switched to the hotel industry.
American entrepreneur Kemmons? Kemmons Wilson, an American entrepreneur, opened the first Holiday Inn in Memphis, Tennessee, USA in 1952 after he felt that the hotels he stayed in lacked a home away from home service and that they charged too much. The hotel had a swimming pool, air-conditioning and a restaurant, and offered basic amenities such as telephones, ice and free parking, while children were allowed to stay in their parents’ rooms free of charge. These amenities, now considered commonplace, revolutionized the hotel industry at the time and led to a set of hotel standards that were adopted by every Holiday Inn and led the way in the development of hotels around the world.
Mr. Wilson went on to pioneer the chain business. He took advantage of the nationwide expansion of the U.S. interstate highway system and opened hotels along the way, rapidly expanding the Holiday Inn network. The success of Holiday Inn in the U.S. quickly attracted the interest of investors in Europe and Asia, and it grew into the largest single hotel brand in the world. Today the Holiday Inn brand can be found all over the world.
InterContinental Hotels Group’s “InterContinental Road Service” is an exclusive service for every guest who comes to China from afar, from language communication, hotel facilities, food and beverage entertainment and other aspects of the guest’s exotic journey are well thought out.
Eight services are always at your side to provide you with the most considerate service: Chinese language service; UnionPay credit card; Chinese language guide service in and around the hotel; free internet for members; selected Chinese channels; convenient daily necessities; fragrant Chinese tea; Chinese breakfast. [2]
The first batch of hotels to launch the “InterContinental Road” service are located in more than 20 countries and nearly 50 cities around the world. Currently, more than 10,000 IHG employees have been trained in the “Chau Dao” culture, and nearly 100 hotels have joined the “Chau Dao” program, which will reach 250 by the end of 2015!
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InterContinental Hotels & Resorts: In March 1998, the Bass Group acquired InterContinental Hotels & Resorts from the Saison Group of Japan for $2.9 billion, a deal that added 187 hotels to the Bass Group’s portfolio.
Crowne Plaza: The Crowne Plaza brand, formerly a hotel brand derived from the Holiday Inn in 1983, was developed into an independent hotel brand in 1994 to emphasize its high-taste, high-spending market image and its focus on business travelers.
Holiday Inn: Holiday Inn offers today’s business and leisure travelers reliable, friendly service and modern amenities at a great value. Whether in towns and cities, along quiet highways or near bustling airports, Holiday Inn hotels can be found because full-service Holiday Inn hotels are conveniently located. With more than 1,600 hotels worldwide, Holiday Inn not only maintains its position as the world’s largest single hotel brand, but is also one of the most widely recognized hotel brands in the world.
Holiday Inn Express: InterContinental Hotels Group’s predecessor, the Six Continents Hotels Group, launched Holiday Inn Express in 1991, a move that became one of the most successful events in the history of the hotel industry. By creating this brand, the group quickly carved out a market for a category of mid-range hotels that offered limited hotel services and no food and beverage facilities. In less than a decade, the Holiday Inn Express brand has grown to more than 1,000 hotels worldwide.
Hotel Indigo: Created in 2004, this brand offers guests an upscale stay through a new concept.
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