- Overview

Every great company has a clear understanding of what it’s trying to do. IHG’s core purpose is creating Great Hotels Guests Love with everything we do focused on the guest, or supporting the people who serve our guests.
- How we operate

We operate hotels in three different ways – as a franchisor, a manager and an owner. Our business model focuses on franchising and managing hotels, meaning we work with approximately 2,000 hotel owners throughout the world.
- Where we operate

We are structured around three regions: The Americas; Europe, Middle East and Africa; and Asia Pacific. We have more guest rooms in our system than any other hotel company in the world – almost 650,000 rooms in over 4,400 hotels in over 100 countries and territories.
- Facts and figures

This Summary Financial Statement provides a commentary on the performance of the Group for the financial year ended 31 December 2009.












