IHG
IHG Hotels & Resorts is a Windsor-based hotel company with 21 brands, including InterContinental, Holiday Inn and Kimpton, and 7,186 hotels in more than 100 countries at 30 September 2026. It is listed in London and New York.
Industry: Hotels and hospitality | Location: Windsor, United Kingdom | Founded: 2003
About IHG
IHG Hotels & Resorts is a hotel company whose holding company, InterContinental Hotels Group PLC, is incorporated in England and Wales and listed in London and, through American depositary receipts, in New York. It operates 21 hotel brands and the IHG One Rewards loyalty programme, which it says has more than 160 million members. IHG reported 7,186 hotels with 1,059,806 rooms in more than 100 countries at 30 September 2026.
IHG traces its history to a brewery William Bass opened in Burton-on-Trent in 1777. The first Holiday Inn opened in Memphis in 1952, and the hotels business of Six Continents became InterContinental Hotels Group PLC when the group split in April 2003. Elie Maalouf became chief executive in July 2023. Deanna Oppenheimer is non-executive chair, Michael Glover is chief financial officer, and Kenneth Macpherson is chief executive for Europe, Middle East, Asia and Africa.
On 29 June 2026 IHG reported 48 open hotels and 62 in the pipeline in Saudi Arabia, where InterContinental Riyadh opened in 1975, and said it plans to bring all six Luxury & Lifestyle brands to the kingdom by 2028. On 29 September 2026 it announced the Middle East debut of Garner Hotels through two UAE signings with Nooa Holdings. On 12 October 2026 it signed the 250-key Crowne Plaza New Cairo with Kleek Development and said it has 10 hotels in Egypt and 28 in the pipeline.
For 2025 IHG reported total revenue of $5,189 million, operating profit of $1,198 million and profit for the year of $759 million. It opened a record 443 hotels, signed 694, acquired the Ruby brand, and paid $900 million in share buybacks and $270 million in dividends. On 17 February 2026 it launched the Noted Collection brand and started a $950 million buyback programme.
In its trading update of 22 October 2026, IHG reported third-quarter global RevPAR growth of 5.3 percent, net system growth of 4.9 percent and a pipeline of 353,000 rooms in 2,426 hotels, and described a broadly flat performance in the Middle East.
Leadership
- Elie Maalouf, Chief Executive Officer
- Deanna Oppenheimer, Non-Executive Chair
- Michael Glover, Chief Financial Officer
- Kenneth Macpherson, Chief Executive Officer, Europe, Middle East, Asia and Africa
- Haitham Mattar, Managing Director, India, Middle East & Africa
- Maher Abou Nasr, Managing Director, Saudi Arabia
- Jolyon Bulley, Chief Executive Officer, Americas
- Daniel Aylmer, Chief Executive Officer, Greater China