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Americas hotel and room count
Hotels Rooms
At 31 December 2015
Change
over 2014 2015
Change
over 2014
Analysed by brand
InterContinental 50 – 17,109 212
Kimpton 61 61 10,976 10,976
Crowne Plaza 172 (9) 46,316 (2,050)
Hotel Indigo 40 1 5,071 520
EVEN Hotels 3 1 446 150
Holiday Innc772 2 135,995 (285)
Holiday Inn Express 2,106 46 186,972 4,371
Staybridge Suites 211 14 22,662 1,462
Candlewood Suites 341 19 32,328 1,620
Other 84 621,700 2,582
Total 3,840 141 479,575 19,558
Analysed by ownership type
Franchised 3,548 71 422,230 5,015
Managed 287 70 55,715 14,543
Owned and leased 5– 1,630 –
Total 3,840 141 479,575 19,558
Percentage of Group
hotel and room count
76.3 (0.1) 64.4 (0.4)
c Includes 23 Holiday Inn Resort properties (5,902 rooms) and 16 Holiday Inn Club Vacations
properties (5,231 rooms) (2014: 20 Holiday Inn Resort properties (4,864 rooms) and 12
Holiday Inn Club Vacations properties (4,027rooms)).
The Americas System size increased by 141 hotels (19,558 rooms),
including the acquisition of 62 Kimpton hotels (11,325 rooms), to 3,840
hotels (479,575 rooms) during 2015. 183 hotels (22,942 rooms) opened
in the year, compared to 178 hotels (20,823 rooms) in 2014. Openings
included 130 hotels (14,963 rooms) in the Holiday Inn brand family,
representing 65.2% of the region’s openings, and seven Kimpton
hotels (1,157 rooms).
104 hotels (14,709 rooms) were removed from The Americas System
in 2015, demonstrating our continued commitment to quality, compared
to 95 hotels (12,230 rooms) in 2014. 44.0% of 2015 room removals were
Holiday Inn rooms in the US (31 hotels, 6,466 rooms) compared to 45.0%
in 2014 (34 hotels, 5,499 rooms). Eight Kimpton hotels (1,506 rooms)
exited The Americas System in 2015.
Americas pipeline
Hotels Rooms
At 31 December 2015
Change
over 2014 2015
Change
over 2014
Analysed by brand
InterContinental 4 (3) 1,545 (792)
Kimpton 18 18 3,366 3,366
Crowne Plaza 15 (3) 2,490 (716)
Hotel Indigo 30 (1) 4,024 (235)
EVEN Hotels 8 5 1,262 678
Holiday Innd 125 (14) 18,203 (1,952)
Holiday Inn Express 449 60 43,945 6,820
Staybridge Suites 105 15 11,230 1,636
Candlewood Suites 98 9 8,720 1,003
Other 13 31,599 381
Total 865 89 96,384 10,189
Analysed by ownership type
Franchised 809 69 85,863 6,883
Managed 55 20 10,319 3,308
Owned and leased 1–202 (2)
Total 865 89 96,384 10,189
d Includes seven Holiday Inn Resort properties (1,657 rooms) (2014: nine Holiday Inn Resort
properties (1,916 rooms)).
At 31 December 2015, The Americas pipeline totalled 865 hotels
(96,384 rooms), including 18 Kimpton hotels (3,366 rooms),
representing an increase of 89 hotels (10,189 rooms) over the prior
year. Strong signings of 325 hotels (37,655 rooms) were ahead of last
year by six hotels, but lower by 453 rooms. The majority of 2015
signings were within the Holiday Inn brand family (208 hotels, 22,826
rooms) but also included 10 Kimpton hotels (1,532 rooms) and 78
hotels (7,607 rooms) for our extended-stay brands, Staybridge Suites
and Candlewood Suites.
69 hotels (7,661 rooms) were removed from the pipeline in 2015,
up slightly in terms of both hotels and rooms from 2014 (64 hotels,
7,108 rooms).
a Underlying excludes the impact of owned-asset disposals, significant liquidated damages,
Kimpton, and the results from managed-lease hotels, translated at constant currency by
applying prior-year exchange rates.
b Royalties are fees, based on rooms revenue, that a franchisee pays to the brand owner
for use of the brand name.
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IHG Annual Report and Form 20-F 2015
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