IHG’S Priority Club Meeting Rewards® Expands to Latin America and the Caribbean

Recognizing the growing meeting planners market in Latin America and the Caribbean, Priority Club^® Rewards, the hotel loyalty program from IHG (InterContinental Hotels Group) (LON:IHG), (NYSE:IHG) (ADRs), has expanded its successful Priority Club Meeting Rewards^® Program to the 73 IHG hotels within 20 countries and territories in the region.

Developed specifically with meeting planners in mind, Priority Club Meeting Rewards awards three points per dollar to planners booking just 10 guest rooms*. Up to 60,000 points can be earned with each meeting and then redeemed for Meeting Credits, an American Express^® branded prepaid card ranging in value from $250 - $1,000, good toward future meetings at any of IHG’s more than 4,400 hotels and resorts worldwide. Meetings Planners are also upgraded to Priority Club Gold Elite status after booking just one meeting in a calendar year; Platinum Elite after two; and benefit from all of the flexible features of Priority Club Rewards, such as no point expiration, no blackout dates for free night stays and online account management 24/7.

Priority Club Meeting Rewards is available at all IHG brands in Latin America and the Caribbean, which include InterContinental^® Hotels & Resorts, Crowne Plaza^® Hotels & Resorts, Hotel Indigo^®, Holiday Inn^® Hotels & Resorts, Holiday Inn Express^® and Staybridge^® Suites.

Priority Club Meeting Rewards helps meeting planners find an appropriate venue within their budget. After enrolling at www.priorityclub.com/meetingrewards, planners can submit a Request for Proposal (RFP) online, providing IHG with a brief outline of their needs. IHG’s staff will then help find the appropriate venue based on the information provided, potentially saving hours of research for the meeting planner.

"The ability for our meetings planners to benefit to such a degree from Priority Club Meeting Rewards clearly sets our properties apart in the competitive meetings business in this region,” said Alvaro Diago, chief operating officer, Latin America and Caribbean Region, IHG. "The initial response has been excellent as the points are easy to earn and redeem.”

To learn more about Priority Club Meeting Rewards and begin earning points, simply enroll at

www.priorityclub.com/meetingrewards.

With more than 48 million members, IHG’s Priority Club Rewards is the first, largest and fastest-growing guest loyalty program in the hotel industry. Priority Club Rewards offers more sought-after benefits and the greatest ease of use of any hotel loyalty program. Enrollment in Priority Club Rewards is free. Guests can enroll by logging on at priorityclub.com, or by inquiring at the front desk of any of IHG’s 4,400 hotels worldwide.

IHG has more than 190 hotels in Mexico, Central and South America and the Caribbean, and has been serving Latin America for more than 60 years. IHG is the world’s largest hotel group by number of rooms, and has hotels situated in nearly every key market throughout Latin America.

*Qualified meetings consist of 10 or more guest rooms within a group block occupied for at least one night. Crowne Plaza® and InterContinental® also require associated meeting-related food and beverage charges applied to the master bill. Staybridge Suites® and Candlewood Suites® require 10 or more guest rooms for at least five consecutive nights. Excluded meeting charges include any associated taxes, gratuities and service fees, any outside vendor/supplier charges and any attendee incidentals or other expenses.

Notes to Editors:

InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) (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 4,400 hotels and more than 645,000 guest rooms in 100 countries and territories around the world. The Group owns a portfolio of well recognized and respected hotel brands including InterContinental^® Hotels & Resorts, Hotel Indigo^®, Crowne Plaza^® Hotels & Resorts, Holiday Inn^® Hotels and Resorts, Holiday Inn Express^®, Staybridge Suites^® and Candlewood Suites^® and also manages the world's largest hotel loyalty program, Priority Club^® Rewards with 48 million members worldwide.

IHG has 1,400 hotels in its development pipeline, which will create 140,000 jobs worldwide over the next few years.

InterContinental Hotels Group PLC is the Group's holding company and is incorporated in Great Britain and registered in England and Wales.

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