Ihg Media Statement Re: New Orleans Hotel Availability During Mardi Gras

ATLANTA (Monday, January 23, 2006) - Some of InterContinental Hotels Group brand hotels in the New Orleans area continue to house a large number of Hurricane Katrina evacuees who have lost their homes. As a result of the FEMA evacuee housing extension to March 1, 2006, some of our New Orleans hotels may be overbooked during the Mardi Gras season and unable to accommodate incoming guests with confirmed reservations. Guests traveling to New Orleans for Mardi Gras with reservations at IHG brand hotels are strongly urged to contact IHG’s dedicated travel advisory line at 1-800-334-3598, or call the hotel directly, to ensure that rooms are still available prior to travel. It is our intent to put evacuees as our top priority, and we have encouraged IHG hotels to give evacuees precedence in fulfilling room requests. It is our hope that guests who have previously booked rooms with those IHG hotels will understand our commitment to provide shelter to those evacuees with nowhere else to go. We will work with guests affected by this situation to help them find alternative accommodations.

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InterContinental Hotels Group PLC of the United Kingdom [LON:IHG, NYSE:IHG (ADRs)] is the world's largest hotel group by number of rooms. InterContinental Hotels Group owns, manages, leases or franchises, through various subsidiaries, almost 3,600 hotels and 539,000 guest rooms in nearly 100 countries and territories around the world. The Group owns a portfolio of well recognised and respected hotel brands including InterContinental® Hotels & Resorts, Crowne Plaza® Hotels & Resorts, Holiday Inn® Hotels and Resorts, Holiday Inn Express®, Staybridge Suites®, Candlewood Suites® and Hotel IndigoTM, and also manages the world's largest hotel loyalty programme, Priority Club® Rewards.

InterContinental Hotels Group offers information and online reservations for all its hotel brands at www.ichotelsgroup.com and information for the Priority Club Rewards programme at www.priorityclub.com.

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