1,315 hotels
240,025 rooms
308 hotels in the pipeline
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Holiday Inn offers today's business and leisure travellers dependability, friendly service and modern attractive facilities at excellent value. You'll find them throughout the world – in small towns and major cities, along quiet roadways and near bustling airports – because full-service Holiday Inn hotels are always conveniently located. Since 1952 Holiday Inn Hotels and Resorts have provided the services business travellers need, while also offering leisure travellers a comfortable, casual atmosphere where they can relax and enjoy amenities such as restaurants, room service, swimming pools, fitness centres and comfortable lounges.
Holiday Inn Club Vacations
In September 2008, IHG announced the creation of a new timeshare brand, Holiday Inn Club Vacations, a strategic alliance with The Family of Orange Lake Resorts.
Holiday Inn Club Vacations officially launched in December 2008 with the conversion of Orange Lake’s flagship 2,500 villa property in Orlando, Florida. The conversion of the remaining Orange Lake resorts including Ascutney, Vermont (60 villas), Lake Geneva, Wisconsin (68 villas) and Panama City, Florida (18 villas) has now been completed.
157,206 rooms
880 hotels
183 hotels in the pipeline
- Holiday Inn announced its NASCAR Busch Series debut as the primary sponsor of the No. 29 Richard Childress Racing (RCR) Chevrolet and driver Jeff Burton.
- In April 2006 Holiday Inn also signed a three-year sponsorship agreement as the “Official Hotel of Major League Baseball.”
Our history
1952
Holiday Inn founded by Kemmons Wilson in Memphis, Tennessee.
1967
Holiday Inn Leiden opens in the Netherlands, the first Holiday Inn to open in EMEA.
1984
Opening of China’s first international brand hotel, the Holiday Inn Lido Beijing.
1988
Bass acquires Holiday Inns International.
1990
Bass acquires the remaining North American Holiday Inn business.
1995
Holiday Inn Worldwide goes live on the internet and becomes the first hotel company to offer direct booking capability.
2004
The first “next-generation Holiday Inn” opens in Gwinnett County, Georgia, US and sets the standard for Holiday Inn properties to come.
2007
Holiday Inn launches the new style in EMEA, offering increased quality and comfort for guests, whilst reducing build costs by 25% and bringing a higher return on investment for owners.
2007
2007 IHG announces plans for a $1bn relaunch of the Holiday Inn brand family.
2007
IHG relaunches Holiday Inn brand family
2008
First Holiday Inn hotels road-test the brand re-launch programme changes.
First Holiday Inn signed in Vietnam.
2009
IHG celebrates 1000th Holiday Inn hotel
Holiday Inn Pudong Nanpu opens as the 100th Holiday Inn in Asia Pacific.
First IHG Hotel to open in The Maldives – Holiday Inn Male.
Figures as at 30 June 2010
Last updated 01 September 2010
