Crowne Plaza^® is The Place to Meet. Whether you’re holding a sales convention, board meeting or informal get-together with associates, your comfort and success are paramount. Crowne Plaza provides meeting services that include a 2-Hour Response Guarantee, Crowne Meetings Director and Daily Meeting Debrief.

We understand that you work better when you are more relaxed, so here are some of the amenities we offer to enhance your stay:

• Comfortably appointed guest room with dataport & voicemail
• 24-hour business centre
• Wireless high-speed internet access in lobby
• Priority Club^® Rewards hotel loyalty program

InterContinental Hotels Group, the hotel business of InterContinental Hotels Group of the United Kingdom, operates or franchises more than 3,326 hotels in 95 countries. Its properties bear some of the most recognized hotel brands in the world, and the InterContinental Hotels Group system hosts more than 150 million guests each year.

An American icon for travelers for more than four decades, Holiday Inn hotels are part of a lodging brand family that today includes upscale Crowne Plaza Hotels & Resorts, Holiday Inn Express hotels in the popular limited-service category, Staybridge Suites by Holiday Inn (the company’s entry in the fast-growing extended stay market), and Inter*Continental Hotels & Resorts, a global leader in the first-class hotel market.

An American entrepreneur named Kemmons Wilson opened the first Holiday Inn hotel in 1952 in Memphis, Tennessee, USA. By the late 1980s, the Holiday Inn brand could be found in virtually every corner of the globe.

Following its acquisition of Holiday Inn in 1990, InterContinental Hotels Group moved the corporate headquarters from Memphis to Atlanta in the summer of 1991. Although Memphis had been “Home” for nearly 40 years, Atlanta offered the corporate infrastructure, worldwide transportation access, and international presence Bass felt was necessary for the company to succeed as a global business.

In 1994, the company established Crowne Plaza, originally introduced in 1983 as a product extension of Holiday Inn, as a separate brand to better reflect its upscale market image and business traveler appeal.

In late 1997, Staybridge Suites by Holiday Inn, the company’s entry in the dynamic extended-stay market, was unveiled. The first property opened in December

1998 in Alpharretta, Ga.,and franchise agreements for more than 25 properties already in the pipeline.

InterContinental Hotels Group expects to have more than 200 Staybridge Suites properties operating by 2002.

In March 1998, Inter*Continental Hotels & Resorts was acquired in a transaction valued at $2.9 billion.

Inter*Continental’s unique culture and global presence in the first-class hotel market brought further diversity to the brand portfolio, ultimately leading to a change in the company’s corporate name from Holiday Hospitality to InterContinental Hotels Group in May 1998.

In January 1999, InterContinental Hotels Group named London as the location of its strategic headquarters, strengthening the company’s association with parent company InterContinental Hotels Group.

Today, InterContinental Hotels Group operates or franchises more than 2,000 hotels in the Americas; some 500 hotels in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa; and more than 100 hotels in Asia and the Pacific Rim.

The first Crowne Plaza ®opened in 1983 in Europe.

Today, Crowne Plaza Hotels and Resorts, a member of the InterContinental Hotels Group family of brands, operates or franchises more than 140 hotels and over 40,000 guest rooms in major urban centers, gateway cities and resort destinations worldwide.

Crowne Plaza Hotels & Resorts offer upscale accommodations at a fair price. They are designed to meet the needs of today’s savy traveler by providing enhanced services and amenities for the value conscious business traveler (With more than 140 hotels in 40 countries around the world, each Crowne Plaza offers superior meeting facilities, a professional conference staff and extensive business services. In addition to these services, there are extensive health and fitness facilities, quality dining options and a variety of recreational activities).