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And 1,000 hotels opened for IHG in Europe. If the British group had crossed this symbolic milestone in Asia-Pacific in spring 2024, it took a little longer to reach it on the Old Continent. But its expansion is nevertheless rapid, driven by a 27% growth in its offering...

And 200 establishments worldwide for Hotel Indigo. While IHG is strengthening its presence in the Lifestyle segment with, among other things, the recent takeover of Ruby Hotels, the British group can also rely on Hotel Indigo to offer travelers contemporary hotels with a distinctive design and local roots. The brand is indeed just about to…

IHG is deploying its premium brand voco for the first time in East Africa, near Nairobi Airport. Located off Mombasa Road, 8 km from Jomo Kenyatta International Airport and a few minutes’ walk from the Nairobi Terminus railway station of the SGR train connecting the Kenyan capital to Mombasa,...

Ruby, the lifestyle brand recently acquired by IHG, has made its first foray into France with the opening of Ruby Lilou in Marseille in recent days. Located at 49 Boulevard des Dames, between the Vieux-Port and La Joliette, this new establishment is located in the heart of the Euroméditerranée business district, in a complex of office buildings…

Crowne Plaza is moving in to Disneyland Paris. This move was in the works since the announcement a year ago of the reopening of Radisson Blu Paris Marne-la-Vallée and the renovation of the hotel before officially joining the portfolio of the business-oriented brand of IHG. While the British group had also…

EasyJet is enhancing its offering for business travellers. In addition to reserving lounge access for them in Toulouse (see box), the airline has just entered into a partnership with IHG as part of the hotel group's programme dedicated to SMEs and mid-sized companies, IHG Business Edge. Launched in 2018, the latter has tens of thousands...

Hotel groups and airlines are closely managing the relationships between their loyalty programmes. At the same time as Hyatt was announcing a partner change across the Atlantic, switching from American Airlines to Delta, IHG and Air India on the one hand, and Radisson and Finnair on the other, were announcing their new partnerships. Is it a reminder of its Nordic origins? The Radisson group,…

It was one of those landmark hotels built in New York in the early 1960s to welcome visitors to the 1964 World's Fair. Today, it is the new American flagship for Crowne Plaza, IHG Group's primarily business-focused brand. Rising 22 floors just a stone's throw from Broadway and...

IHG is beginning to roll out natural language search on its IHG.com website and IHG One Rewards mobile app. This launch had been anticipated since early June, coinciding with the announcement of the British group's integration with ChatGPT. This development is now becoming a reality in a beta version, and for now, only...

A club that is no longer so exclusive. Five hotel groups can indeed boast of being millionaires in terms of room numbers. This is what emerges from the Top 10 of global hospitality recently unveiled by the MKG and Hospitality On consultancy. The British group IHG thus joins Marriott, the first to have crossed...

"That I, me, love Frida." By choosing the new hotel opened by the lifestyle brand Ruby for their next business trip to Stockholm, business travellers will undoubtedly have a tune by Brel in mind, imagining themselves in this house "where it will be good to be". And if it's not certain, when is it...

But where is Charlie? The teams at Choice Hotels could easily answer that: within the American group’s operational platforms. Available 24/7, this AI-powered virtual “teammate” meets staff needs, provides insights, and reduces the time spent on their questions. Before this…

As long as the growth algorithm remains intact, all is well. The war in the Middle East, which broke out on February 28th, has not darkened the horizon for the major hotel groups. The results presented for the first quarter of 2026 – admittedly, only one-third affected by the conflict – show no signs of…

A five-star development: IHG is set to take over several Penta Hotels to transform them into one of its brands, Holiday Inn, voco, and Garner, by early 2027. This development follows the conclusion of long-term franchise agreements with investment companies Ogilvy Management and Ironstone Group, who have taken over a…

The milestone of 150,000 rooms in Europe has been passed, with a total of over 1,200 hotels open or under development in some forty countries: the IHG group, already among the main players in the hotel industry on the continent with Accor and Louvre Hotels, has further expanded its footprint. Over the course of...

If further proof were needed that hotel conversions are the most prolific way for hotel groups to grow, the Garner brand has just provided it. Launched in August 2023 by the IHG group, this mid-range brand, adapted to business travellers with work spaces in rooms and common areas, has been...

Somewhere between James Bond and Fellini. To make its debut in Rome, Ruby Hotels drew inspiration from the location - former offices of the Italian Ministry of the Interior - as well as from the dolce vita of its host city, magnified by the Italian film director. The design of its new hotel, which has just opened its doors, plays...

In addition to the current shutdown and its impact on air travel in the United States, budget cuts by federal and local agencies have been weighing on the results of the US hotel industry for several months now. In a climate of austerity in public spending and the forced departure of many civil servants, the sector has seen a source of revenue collapse...

IHG Hotels & Resorts is setting out its ambitions for voco in Southern Europe. The hotel group has just announced nine contracts for future openings, bringing its European network to 35 properties in operation and 22 under development. "We are delighted to see voco continue its impressive growth," commented Eric Viale, President of IHG Hotels & Resorts.

To you, to me. While the Crowne Plaza Corum in Montpellier has recently been rebranded as a Radisson Blu, the Radisson Blu in Marne-la-Vallée is about to experience the opposite fate. The IHG group has just announced that it is to take over the hotel, in partnership with Danish property company Proark, and transform it into the Crowne Plaza...