IHG (INTERCONTINENTAL HOTELS GROUP) FRANCHISE

IHG is an international hotel company whose goal is to create Great Hotels Guests Love. We have more guest rooms than any other hotel company in the world – that's rooms in more than 4,200 hotels across nearly 100 countries. Our guests make over 180 million stays in IHG hotels every year. We operate seven hotel brands – InterContinental, Crowne Plaza, Hotel Indigo, Holiday Inn, Holiday Inn Express, Staybridge Suites and Candlewood Suites. We want to grow by making our brands the first choice for guests and hotel owners.

In 2005 we committed to increase the number of rooms we have by 50,000 to 60,000 on a net and organic basis. The top end of this target was exceeded in June 2008 – 6 months ahead of schedule. By the end of 2008, we had reached 82,000 net rooms.

IHG’s operating system is made up of all the things we do to drive demand for our brands. This includes our advertising and marketing campaigns, our 12 global call centres, 13 local language websites, an 8,000-strong sales force, Priority Club Rewards – the world’s largest hotel loyalty scheme which has 43 million members – and all the advantages that IHG’s global hotel distribution and scale brings to brand awareness.

We operate hotels in three different ways – as a franchisor, a manager and on an owned and leased basis. Our business model focuses on managing and franchising hotels, whilst our business partners own the bricks and mortar. This is the largest part of our business: over 3,600 hotels operate under franchise agreements. We manage 590 hotels worldwide. We own 16 hotels worldwide (less than 1% of our portfolio).

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