Intercontinental Hotels Group (IHG) Announces Senior Management Appointments

Intercontinental Hotels Group (IHG) Announces Senior Management Appointments

July 10, 2007

    SHANGHAI, July 10 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ --
InterContinental Hotels Group PLC (LON: IHG; NYSE: IHG
(ADRs) ) today announces two internal executive
appointments - Peter Gowers as Chief Executive, Asia
Pacific region and Kirk Kinsell as President, Europe Middle
East & Africa (EMEA).

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    Peter Gowers is currently Chief Marketing Officer (CMO)
and will remain on the executive committee of IHG. His new
appointment will take effect 1 November 2007. He succeeds
Tony South, Acting Chief Executive for Asia Pacific, who
will resume his responsibilities as Senior Vice President,
Development for the region at that time.

    Kirk Kinsell is currently Senior Vice President, Chief
Development Officer for the Americas region, and will join
the executive committee on his appointment. His appointment
is effective 1 September 2007 when he will succeed outgoing
President and Board member Richard Hartman who formally
retires from IHG at the end of September.

    Andrew Cosslett, CEO, InterContinental Hotels Group,
said, "I am delighted to be able to make these two key
appointments from within the company. This says a great deal
about the strength and depth of management we have at IHG.

    "Both Peter and Kirk have been hugely influential
in the development of IHG, building our brands, developing
stronger relationships with our owners and driving up our
rate of growth.

    "Peter has been responsible for raising the
quality of our brand management, most clearly seen in the
recent, highly successful evolution of the InterContinental
brand. He has overseen the development of Priority Club
Rewards into the industry's largest loyalty scheme with
over 33 million members, and built up the power of IHG's
websites and reservation systems. 

    "Kirk has been at the heart of the resurgence of
our Americas region in recent years. He has driven up our
deal pace and taken the Americas hotel development pipeline
to record levels. His extensive experience both inside and
outside the hospitality industry, combined with his
commercial acumen and drive for results, made him the right
choice to take our EMEA business up to the next level."

    In his 20-year hospitality career Kinsell has held a
variety of senior positions in the hospitality industry
including time with Holiday Inn Corporation and ITT
Sheraton. From 1998 he spent four years outside the
industry in COO and CEO roles, before re-joining IHG in
2002 as Senior Vice President, development, the Americas.

    Aged 52, Kinsell holds a B.A in Economics from the
University of California, San Diego and a Master of
Professional Studies from the School of Hotel
Administration at Cornell University. He is married with
two children.

    Gowers started his career as a management consultant
with Arthur D. Little, which included an Asia-based
assignment in Singapore. He joined IHG - then Bass - in a
strategic planning role in 1999 and was promoted to
Executive Vice President, Strategy for the hotels business
in 2002. 

    In 2003 he became Executive Vice President of Global
Brand Services for IHG and was promoted to Chief Marketing
Officer in 2005. Aged 34, Peter is a graduate of Oxford
University with a B.A in Jurisprudence (Law). He is married
with two children.

    Appointments to the vacated internal posts will be made
in due course.

    Notes to Editors 

    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 recognized and respected hotel brands
including InterContinental(R) Hotels & Resorts, Crowne
Plaza(R) Hotels & Resorts, Holiday Inn(R) Hotels and
Resorts, Holiday Inn Express(R), Staybridge Suites(R),
Candlewood Suites(R) and Hotel Indigo(R), and also manages
the world's largest hotel loyalty program, Priority Club(R)
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 http://www.ihg.com and information for
the Priority Club Rewards program at
http://www.priorityclub.com .

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Office at http://www.ihg.com/media .


    For more information, please contact:

     Sharona Tao
     Brand Public Relations & Communications Manager
     Greater China
     InterContinental Hotels Group
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