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  InterContinental Hotels Group - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The largest hotel company by number of rooms (537,500 as of March 2006 [1]), it's headquarters are in Windsor just outside Greater London and it is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.
InterContinental Hotels Group can be traced back to 1777 when William Bass began a brewery in Burton-upon-Trent.
InterContinental was created in 2003 after the company – then Six Continents Plc – split into two daughter companies: Mitchells and Butlers plc to handle restaurant assets and InterContinental to focus on hotels and soft drinks.
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 Overview of Intercontinental Hotels Group
Hotels are trying hard to compete with their competitors to create wonderful experience to every customer who visit the hotel.
However, for InterContinental Hotel and Resort, the geographical location, weather, and events are not the major factors that will affect the occupancies due to business people travel because of business purpose that is happening all year round.
InterContinental Hotel and Resorts is one of the major properties who have strong brand in providing quality service and all required business facilities.
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 InterContinental Hotels Group Jobs - Employment Opportunities at Monster.com
InterContinental Hotels Group's employees are working together to put in place the mechanics whereby we will be the number one choice for our customers.
At InterContinental Hotels Group we are committed to diversity and inclusion in all aspects of the business, including supplier relationships, recruitment, community relations, franchising, and marketing.
InterContinental Hotels Group is working with charitable partners Give Kids the World, the resort that provides holidays full of magical memories for children with terminal and life-threatening illnesses and their families, and UNICEF to provide the basic right to education for thousands of children.
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 InterContinental® Hotels Group World-Wide -- InterContinental® Hotels & Resorts
InterContinental® Hotels and Resorts is dedicated to serving the needs of the frequent international traveller, with more than 130 hotels and nearly 45,000 guestrooms worldwide.
A pioneer in the development of the hotel industry, InterContinental® Hotels and Resorts successfully blend consistent global standards with the distinctive culture of their locations to deliver a truly memorable stay.
InterContinental® Hotels and Resorts offers luxurious hotels in some of the most exhilarating cities, as well as resorts in key destinations around the world.
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 Reachlive.net: InterContinental Hotels Group
IHG's vision for the future was a property that delivered new levels of customer convenience-achieved by extending hotel systems for guest and employee access using the hotel's wireless infrastructure.
IHG executives envisioned a wirelessly connected mobile device that guests could use to explore the restaurant's menu and place orders - a system that could eventually be expanded to connect with all the hotel's back-end systems, from inventory to check-in and check-out.
IHG's original development partner wanted to build out an extensive, centralized data centre - an approach that would have required IHG to make an investment that was much too large for what it considered to be a pilot project.
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 InterContinental Hotels Group News
InterContinental Hotels Group Plc plans to take advantage of economic stability in Latin America and the Caribbean this year by opening 20 hotels, a top company executive said.
InterContinental Hotels Group has signed management contracts with Shanghai Greenland Group for four new hotels in China, including one that as planned will be the world's tallest hotel.
InterContinental Hotels, the world's largest hotelier, has signed a deal to manage six hotels in south-west China.
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 InterContinental Hotels Group Expands U.S. Upscale Presence
The hotel will be in close proximity to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Metreon/Sony Entertainment Center, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the Jewish Museum San Francisco, the Mexican Museum and the San Francisco Historical Museum.
Construction is scheduled to begin in October and the hotel is expected to open in late 2007.
"With IHG's strong focus on expanding the InterContinental Hotels & Resorts brand in the U.S., especially in key gateway cities, the InterContinental San Francisco is a tremendous and welcome addition to our portfolio of hotels," said Kirk Kinsell, SVP and chief development officer, the Americas, InterContinental Hotels Group.
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 INTERCONTINENTAL HOTELS GROUP ANNOUNCES SALES - Hotel Motel
InterContinental Hotels Group PLC ("IHG") today announces it has agreed to sell its leasehold interest in the Crowne Plaza United Nations in New York to Halifax Holdings, Inc, an affiliate of Highgate Holdings, for $34 million, marginally in excess of net book value.
IHG further announces the legal completion on the disposal of 73 hotels being sold in the United Kingdom to LRG Acquisition Limited, a consortium comprising Lehman Brothers Real Estate Partners, GIC Real Estate and Realstar Group (?LRG?), the terms of which were announced on 10th March 2005.
InterContinental Hotels Group PLC of the United Kingdom [LON:IHG, NYSE:IHG (ADRs)] is the world's most global hotel company and the largest by number of rooms.
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 SideStep Expands Relationship With InterContinental Hotels Group
"IHG has some of the world's most recognized and respected brands in the hotel business," Smith continued, "and we're looking forward to bringing our full range of marketing programs to bear on the company's behalf." Winner of the Forbes "Best of the Web" Award, the SideStep travel search toolbar is available at http://www.sidestep.com.
About InterContinental Hotels Group InterContinental Hotels Group PLC of the United Kingdom (NYSE: IHG; LON) (ADRs) is the world's most global hotel company and the largest by number of rooms.
InterContinental Hotels Group owns, manages, leases or franchises, through various subsidiaries, more than 3,500 hotels and 538,000 guest rooms in nearly 100 countries and territories around the world.
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 InterContinental Hotels Group
InterContinental Hotels Group is a leading global hospitality group, with more than 3,500 hotels and 534,000 guest rooms across nearly 100 countries and territories.
The InterContinental Hotels Group has three operating Regions: the Americas; Asia Pacific; and Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA).
Working in a property of  InterContinental Hotels Group  is a lifestyle offering you variety and change.
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 Akamai: InterContinental Hotels Group   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-05-27)
InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG), with 535,000 guest rooms, is the largest hotel firm in the world, serving more than 120 million customers a year across nearly 100 countries.
The hotelier has always been an e-commerce industry leader, being the first to offer online reservations in the hotel industry, and the first to enable customers to review, cancel, or modify reservations on the companies' Web sites, regardless of how the customer originally made the reservation.
With Akamai, IHG was able to increase online sales through improvements in page download time, transaction processing speed, and overall site availability - resulting in more than $3.5 million in reservations booked online each day.
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 InterContinental Hotels Group News - Page 2
InterContinental Hotels & Resorts will expand its reach around the world with nine new properties planned for the U.S, China, Europe and the Middle East this year.
Atlanta, GA - InterContinental Hotels Group reports it is planning to open a 110-room Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites in Las Vegas the fall of this year.
InterContinental Hotels Group PLC announces that it has today placed a further portfolio of seven hotels on the market for disposal.
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 InterContinental Hotels Group prepares for Eid | InterContinental Hotels Group
InterContinental Hotels Group, the world's most global hotel company, today announced it is preparing for unprecedented levels of demand for accommodation at its properties across the region during the upcoming Eid Al Adha holidays.
Similar to the recent Eid Al Fitr holidays, InterContinental Hotels Group expects Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, the UAE and Oman to once again be amongst the hottest destinations during the January break.
InterContinental Hotels Group owns, manages, leases or franchises, through various subsidiaries, more than 3,500 hotels and 535,000 guest rooms in nearly 100 countries and territories around the world (www.ichotelsgroup.com).
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 InterContinental Hotels Group
InterContinental Hotels Group has joined up with ABN AMRO bank to offer its credit card holders the added benefit of an upgrade when staying at selected hotels throughout the Middle East and Africa region.
InterContinental Hotels Group will continue to give Bahraini's access to instant real-time bookings and unbeatable summer deals though the toll-free number has changed.
InterContinental Hotels Group has reported further success for its Middle East Central Reservations Office with net revenue up 37 per cent year to date.
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 SourceWire | Press Releases - InterContinental Hotels Group launches EMEA Intranet
Services such as hotel reporting, IHG email, quality audit and guest satisfaction applications, promotions, risk management, guest satisfaction and tracking, events calendars and even Christmas card ordering for each hotel, can be accessed through the system.
David House, Senior Vice President within Global HR at IHG said: “The most important element in making this project a success was the ease of use of the system we chose, this was in order to gain rapid acceptance across a diverse user base.
InterContinental Hotels Group PLC (IHG) is the world’s most global hotel company and the largest by number of rooms.
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 InterContinental Hotels Group PLC - Homepage
InterContinental Hotels Group PLC announced its Preliminary Results this morning at 7.00am (GMT).
InterContinental Hotels Group is the world’s most global hotel company and the largest by number of rooms.
With over 3,600 hotels and 537,500 rooms, more than 120 million people find a welcome at one of our lodging brands every year.
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 ShareCast - News you can use
Hotel’s giant Intercontinental Hotels saw both full-year revenue and pre-tax profit from continuing operations increase as it announced a special dividend.
Hotels giant Intercontinental is to sell a further portfolio of seven hotels worth a net book value of around £600m.
InterContinental Hotels announced it was making good progress today and reiterated that it would return more cash to shareholders once it has floated Britvic.
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 InterContinental Hotels Group Signs 25 Management Contracts in the Asia Pacific Region Within the First Nine Months of ...
The Group is also growing its presence in the key market of China with Express by Holiday Inn, which appeals to value-conscious domestic travellers and international visitors.
InterContinental Hotels Group currently has 150 hotels in Asia Pacific, catering to business and leisure travellers in key gateway and secondary cities.
InterContinental Hotels Group owns, manages, leases or franchises, through various subsidiaries, more than 3,500 hotels and 538,000 guest rooms in nearly 100 countries and territories around the world (www.ichotelsgroup.com).
www.hotel-online.com /News/PR2004_4th/Oct04_ICHAsia.html   (642 words)

  
 InterContinental Hotels Group - hospitality company profiles
InterContinental Hotels Group operates more than 3,500 owned, leased, managed and franchised hotels with about 534,000 bedrooms in nearly 100 countries.
InterContinental's hotels division turned over £1.50b in the year to 31 December 2004.
InterContinental's recent strategy has focused on a £61m cost-cutting programme and a shift away from owning hotels towards operating and franchising.
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 Hospitality Net - Industry News - InterContinental Hotels Group PLC Board appointments
InterContinental Hotels Group PLC (IHG) today announces that Jonathan (“Jon”) Linen and Jennifer Laing have been appointed as additional independent non-executive directors of the company.
Commenting on their appointments, David Webster, IHG’s non-executive chairman, said “I am delighted that Jon and Jennifer have agreed to join our board and we very much look forward to welcoming them at this important time in the strategic development of the company.
InterContinental Hotels Group offers information and online reservations for all its hotel brands at www.ichotelsgroup.com and information for the Priority Club Rewards programme at www.priorityclub.com.
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 Hospitality Net - Industry News - InterContinental Hotels Group Expands U.S. Upscale Presence
"With IHG's strong focus on expanding the InterContinental Hotels and Resorts brand in the U.S., especially in key gateway cities, the InterContinental San Francisco is a tremendous and welcome addition to our portfolio of hotels," said Kirk Kinsell, SVP and chief development officer, the Americas, InterContinental Hotels Group.
InterContinental Hotels and Resorts continues to grow its presence in the Americas region.
InterContinental Hotels Group's Americas Region 2nd Quarter Results Show it Continues to Execute Against its Franchise and Management Growth Strategies
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 Intercontinental Hotels Group Plc Share Price (IHG), Stock Quotes, Charts, Trades & Market News.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-05-27)
Hotels and resorts, with worldwide interests through ownership, leasing, management and franchising, and in the manufacture of soft drinks in the UK url: www.ihgplc.com
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 InterContinental Hotels Group launches online sale   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-05-27)
OnInterContinental Hotels Group announces that in celebration of its 10-year anniversary as the first hotel company to take online reservations, it is holding the largest and most global online sale.
As the first hotel company to take online reservations, InterContinental Hotels Group has initiated many other online innovations and industry 'firsts,' setting the bar increasingly higher for quality online reservations delivery.
These innovations help ensure that InterContinental Hotels Group's guests can book easily and with confidence; the confidence that they will always get the best available rate online, that that their reservation will be there when they arrive, and that their security and privacy will be protected.
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 CWT Partner: InterContinental Hotels Group   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-05-27)
As the world’s largest hotel group the InterContinental Hotels Group offers its guests superb service and comfort in addition to a unique international presence: more that 3,500 hotels and 553,000 rooms in more than 100 countries around the world.
Our extensive portfolio, which includes InterContinental Hotels and Resorts as well as the renowned brands Crowne Plaza, Holiday Inn, Express by Holiday Inn, Staybridge Suites and Candlewood Suites, ensures that we can offer you the right category of hotel in your selected destinations.
This is why you can be certain that every InterContinental Hotel and Resort provides world-class service, extraordinary comfort and a luxurious ambience that will meet all the wishes of the superior guest.
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 InterContinental® Hotels and Resorts World-Wide
IHG is investing almost $25 million in marketing, advertising and enhancements in service and delivery.
IHG’s global upscale brand is located in major and secondary cities around the world.
It is the largest mid-scale hotel brand in the US, UK and China and has a continuing refurbishment programme in the UK.
www.world-hotels.net   (688 words)

  
 InterContinental Miami Hotels - InterContinental Hotel Reservations Miami, FL
InterContinental Hotels special offers include instant check-in / check-out, daily newspaper, 24 hour business services, jetlag recovery kits, and free access to personal printers and fax machines.
Get all these hotel amenities with quality lodging from InterContinental Hotels when you travel to Miami, Florida.
Miami was little more than a lighthouse and trading post until residents started touting it as Florida's tropical paradise and persuaded a railroad to extend its line.
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