IHG Most Nominated Hotel Company In Australasian World Travel Awards

Travel agents from around the world have honoured IHG hotels with more nominations than any other hotel company in the Australasian section of the 15th annual World Travel Awards, to be announced in Bangkok in September.

Brand proprietor and world’s largest hotel company, IHG is the most nominated hotelier in Australasia in 2007, with InterContinental Hotels & Resorts up for 16 awards and the upscale Crowne Plaza Hotels & Resorts contending for five.

Nominees include InterContinental hotels in Sydney and Perth in Australia, Wellington in New Zealand, and the French Polynesian islands of Bora Bora and Moorea, as well as Crowne Plaza hotels in Auckland and Christchurch in New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and on Australia’s Queensland Gold Coast.

Established in 1993, the World Travel Awards acknowledge and celebrate achievements in all sectors of the global travel industry. Judging is based on the hundreds of thousands of nominations cast by travel agents in over 190 countries around the world.

“It was exciting to learn our premium and upscale lodging brands have received this many nominations from the single largest community of travel influencers. It is wonderful to see that not only are they so familiar with our brands and products, but that we are held in such high esteem by such a learned and experienced sector of travel industry professionals,” said IHG chief operating officer for Australia, New Zealand and South Pacific, Keith Barr.

“I am especially pleased that five of our six InterContinental hotels in Australia, New Zealand and South Pacific have each received multiple nominations from both business and leisure travel specialists. As we continue to expand the InterContinental and Crowne Plaza networks, these nominations demonstrate we’re on the right track when it comes to meeting the needs of our guests and partners.”

The Australasia section of the World Travel Awards covers Australia, Cook Islands, Fiji, French Polynesia, Guam, Micronesia, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Tonga and Vanuatu. More information on the World Travel Awards can be found at www.worldtravelawards.com.

IHG’s Australasian hotels nominated in the 15th annual World Travel Awards include:

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InterContinental Hotels Group PLC (IHG) of the United Kingdom [LON:IHG, NYSE:IHG (ADRs)] is the world's largest hotel group by number of rooms. IHG owns, manages, leases or franchises, through various subsidiaries, over 3,700 hotels and more than 558,000 guest rooms in nearly 100 countries and territories around the world. IHG owns a portfolio of well recognised and respected hotel brands including InterContinental® Hotels & Resorts, Crowne Plaza® Hotels & Resorts, Holiday Inn® Hotels and Resorts, Holiday Inn Express®, Staybridge Suites®, Candlewood Suites® and Hotel Indigo®, and also manages the world's largest hotel loyalty programme, Priority Club® Rewards with over 33 million members worldwide.

The company pioneered the travel industry’s first collaborative response to environmental issues as founder of the International Hotels and Environment Initiative (IHEI). The IHEI formed the foundations of the Tourism Partnership launched by the International Business Leaders Forum in 2004, of which IHG is still a member today. The environment and local communities remain at the heart of IHG’s global corporate responsibility focus.

IHG offers information and online reservations for all its hotel brands at www.ihg.com and information for the Priority Club Rewards programme at www.priorityclub.com.

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