IHG plans to open 150 hotels across India by 2020

At present, it has 13 hotels in nine cities under the InterContinental, Crowne Plaza, Holiday Inn and Holiday Inn Express brands

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InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) plans to focus on the mid-scale hotel space in India. It has a pipeline of 47 hotels in India under various stages of development, the second-largest in the Asia-Pacific region after China.

At present, it has 13 hotels in nine cities under the InterContinental, Crowne Plaza, Holiday Inn and Holiday Inn Express brands.

Douglas Martell, Vice President - Operations, South West Asia, IHG, told Business Line,"We want to open 150 hotels across the country by 2020. Our expansion plans in India are focused on the mid-scale segment which for us is the Holiday Inn and Holiday Inn Express brands.

The Indian hotel market is being driven by the boom in domestic travellers with year-on-year double digit growth and 850 million domestic travellers and 6.3 million inbound tourists."

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