InterContinental Hotels Group Plc

Phone numbers and websites for hotels, and hotel associations

2011-02-27 00:00:00

Major lodging companies' phone numbers and websites are listed below. Several hotel and motel brands may be managed by one umbrella company. Thus, different chains may share central reservation staffs and Internet systems. It's why Internet users...

A bad economy adds up to good vacation deals

2009-07-19 00:00:00

Talk about fireworks. In a burst of post-Fourth of July sales, Southwest Airlines turned the clock back with 1990s fares, a major hotel group extended a free-nights deal and luxury cruise lines pitched high prices overboard. With many bargains good...

More for Your Money: Locating a travel, shopping or dining deal by GPS

2011-01-02 00:00:00

Checked in lately? On your smart phone, that is. If you had, you might have scored discounts on drinks, meals, shopping and other travel goodies just for letting friends and businesses know your whereabouts. Or even racked up points in a hotel's...

InterContinental Hotels arms its concierges with iPads for customer service

2010-04-02 21:33:01

No room at the inn? Maybe, but keep banging on the door

2005-12-11 00:00:00

BEFORE booking my airplane ticket, I carefully researched the availability of a hotel room in Barth, a small town on the Baltic Sea in Germany. In early November, the Ringhotel Speicher, the only hotel in this town of 10,000, had plenty of rooms when I...

Amtrak seeks a tech edge

2007-05-17 00:00:00

Traveling by train is so retro. Or maybe not. Tech-savvy Amtrak riders can call up video games and DVDs on free media players and, through a special website, use mobile devices to buy rail tickets. On board, the train's staff processes charge cards at...

Neither Motel 6 nor the Ritz, these hotels meet you halfway

2006-03-12 00:00:00

CHRIS WILLIAMS appreciates plush surroundings. In December, he and his wife, Alice, stayed in a $350-a-night Ritz-Carlton in Florida. "Marble everything," he said. But last month, the couple from Rome, Ga., decided on the Holiday Inn Express...

TRAVEL LOG

2004-08-22 00:00:00

Hotels cut ties with 2 websites InterContinental Hotels Group, the London-based company that operates InterContinental, Crowne Plaza, Holiday Inn and several other chains, said last week it would pull its listings off http://www.expedia.com and http://...

Hotel chains want websites to separate fees and taxes on bill

2004-05-09 00:00:00

Web shoppers soon may no longer see Holiday Inns or Crowne Plaza Hotels on such sites as Expedia, Orbitz, Travelocity and Hotels.com. InterContinental Hotels Group, or IHG, the nation's third-largest public hotel company, has said it will remove its...

Smart travelers save by following the news

2004-09-26 00:00:00

Travel news — industry disputes, general trends, new companies and travel services — sometimes has as much bearing on your next vacation as a special airfare or hotel bargain. Here are some recent travel stories that may affect your plans:...

In the storms' wake, conflicting reports can cloud conditions

2004-10-10 00:00:00

There's nothing like a natural disaster at a tourist destination to kick the machine of public relations into full spin cycle. Appealing for aid, governments paint a dark picture of destruction. Eager to regain business, the tourism industry cranks out...

New ups and downs in the travel industry

2004-10-24 00:00:00

THE best way to stay on a travel budget is to plan, and one of the best ways to plan is to keep abreast of changes in the industry. Here's a look at some things on the horizon: �� No sooner had rock climbing joined the list of merriments on a seagoing...

The Indigo's icon is a blue nautilus shell -- blue for calm, the nautilus to represent the epitome of perfect proportion in nature. Bed pillows are embroidered with blue shells and an invitation to "curl up.

2010-02-13 19:57:37

"It's an all-out rate war in some markets," he said. But not everywhere. You may still pay top dollar for, say, a beach resort at Christmas because some owners would rather risk a few empty rooms than cut prices on peak dates.

2009-07-21 00:00:00