Factsheet on InterContinental Hotel Group

The world’s largest international hotels group, IHG operates seven hotel brands — InterContinental, Crowne Plaza, Hotel Indigo, Holiday Inn, Holiday Inn Express, Staybridge Suites and Candlewood Suites — which offer 536,131 rooms in 3,599 hotels in about 100 countries, more rooms than any other hotel company in the world. Therefore, it is not surprising that guests, on average, spend over 120 million stays per year in the group’s facilities. IHG’s business model focuses on managing and franchising hotel brands in three different ways — as a franchisor, a manager and on an owned and leased basis. Franchising is the largest part of IHG’s business, accounting for 3,158 hotels worldwide, or 85% of the group’s portfolio, hotel management accounts for 498 hotels or 14%, while the group owns 24 hotels, or less than 1%. IHG’s strategy is focused on increasing the number of its franchised and managed hotels. Its hotel development pipeline is one of the industry’s highest, with plans to add a net total of 50,000 to 60,000 hotel rooms by the end of 2008.

The Holiday Inn Hotel Brand in Moscow

Holiday Inn is one of the most recognizable traditional hotel brands in the world with a crystal clear global reputation and impeccable track record for providing consistently full, top-of-the-market services, best comfortable accommodation conditions and value for its guests. Since its invention in 1952, the brand has been providing business executives and other travelers the services which they really need, while also offering tourists a comfortable and casual atmosphere, where they can relax and enjoy amenities such as restaurants, room service, swimming pools, fitness centers and comfortable lounges, which leave them with memorable holiday experiences.

The brand is represented in Russia, specifically in Moscow, by the following hotels:

Holiday Inn Moscow Vinogradovo, opened in 1998, Holiday Inn Moscow Lesnaya (2005), Holiday Inn Moscow Suschevski (2006), Holiday Inn Moscow Sokolniki (2006).