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InterContinental Hotels & Resorts

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Промышленность	Гостиницы
Основан	4 апреля 1946 г . ; 75 лет назад (April 4, 1946)
Основатель	Хуан Триппе
Штаб-квартира	Денхэм, Бакингемшир , Соединенное Королевство
Количество локаций	213 отелей и курортов
Обслуживаемая площадь	Глобальный
Ключевые люди	Кейт Барр , генеральный директор
Доход	4,627 миллиарда долларов ( InterContinental Hotels Group , 2019)
Владелец	Pan Am Corporation (1946–1981) InterContinental Hotels Group (1981 – настоящее время)
Веб-сайт	www .ihg .com

InterContinental Hotels & Resorts - это гостиничный бренд класса люкс, созданный в 1946 году основателем Pan Am Хуаном Триппе . ^[1] Он является частью InterContinental Hotels Group с 1998 года. ^[1] По состоянию на ноябрь 2020 года по всему миру насчитывалось 210 отелей InterContinental с более чем 71 045 номерами. ^[2]

История [ править ]

В 1945 году президент США Франклин Д. Рузвельт и Хуан Триппе , президент Pan Am , обсудили свою озабоченность по поводу потребности Латинской Америки в долларах на развитие на завтраке в Белом доме. Двое мужчин думали, что одним из способов привлечь бизнесменов и туристов будет предложение роскошных отелей в ключевых городах. Трипп, предвидя рост массовых международных авиаперелетов, согласился с тем, что Pan Am при поддержке таких организаций, как Экспортно-импортный банк США, could form a subsidiary to foster the implementation of the idea. The hotels would also serve to accommodate Pan Am crews and passengers in destinations where upscale hotels were not yet present. On April 3, 1946, Intercontinental Hotel Corporation was founded. Intercontinental Hotels purchased its first hotel that year, the Grande Hotel in Belém, Brazil. The chain soon grew to include numerous hotels throughout Latin America and the Caribbean.

The Phoenicia Hotel Beirut, the company's first hotel in the Middle East, opened in 1961

Intercontinental Hotels opened its first property in the Middle East in 1961, the Phoenicia Intercontinental Beirut. The chain became one of the first to operate in Eastern Europe when it signed a contract to manage the Esplanade Zagreb Hotel in 1964.

The chain was officially rebranded as Inter•Continental Hotels in 1966, with the name commonly spelled with a hyphen as Inter-Continental when typed.^[3] The Inter-Continental Kabul opened in 1969, but ceased operation following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. The hotel continues to operate independently using the Inter-Continental name, but unaffiliated with the chain.^[4]

In 1972, Inter-Continental started a line of moderately priced hotels, called Forum Hotels.^[5] The chain opened its first hotel in the United States in 1973, when it signed a contract to manage the Mark Hopkins Hotel in San Francisco.

PanAm sold Inter-Continental to Grand Metropolitan on August 19, 1981. The new owners merged their existing chain of Grand Metropolitan Hotels into Inter-Continental and its sibling chain Forum Hotels. GrandMet sold the chain to the Saison Group in 1988, which in turn sold it to Bass in 1998. Two years later, Bass divested itself of its namesake brewing business and renamed itself Six Continents, focusing on hotels. In 2003, Six Continents demerged its bar and pubs business Mitchells & Butlers and the company renamed itself InterContinental Hotels Group. At that time, Inter-Continental Hotels dropped the hyphen in its name and became InterContinental Hotels. The chain is one of numerous brands today within the company.

Criticism[edit]

Food poisoning[edit]

In July 2016, InterContinental Adelaide was responsible for giving at least 70 diners salmonella food poisoning. Twenty-one of these people had to be treated at hospital.^[6]

Hygiene standards[edit]

In September 2017, a consumer rights group accused InterContinental Beijing Sanlitun of substandard hygiene conditions. Specifically during an undercover operation they had marked bed linen and toilets with an invisible stamp. Upon returning the next day the marks were still there.^[7]

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