IHG has signed a management contract with Poly Real Estate (Group) Co., Ltd. for six hotels in China, adding 1,773 hotel rooms to its pipeline in the country. The agreement enhances IHG’s growth plans for China; in fact, one in four rooms that the company will open over the next five years will be in the country.
The six new signed hotels are:
- InterContinental Guangzhou Exhibition Centre (right): 300 rooms, to open in 2014
- InterContinental Shunde: 300 rooms, to open in 2015
- InterContinental Foshan Dongping: 300 rooms, to open in 2014
- Crowne Plaza Hailing Island: 320 rooms, to open in 2014
- Crowne Plaza Nanchang Wanli: 300 rooms, to open in 2014
- Holiday Inn Guangzhou Science City: 253 rooms, to open in 2014