Priority Club Connect Allows Users to Seek Travel Information, Share Experiences with Fellow Travellers and Communicate with IHG Executives

Singapore, 14 April 2009 � Travellers from around the world can now come closer together as IHG (InterContinental Hotels Group), the world's largest hotel group by number of rooms, launches its new public online community for its more than 42 million Priority Club� Rewards members called Priority Club Connect. The Priority Club Connect online community provides a multitude of benefits for Priority Club Rewards members participating in the community. The online community encourages members to engage in on-going and robust dialogue with other community participants, and delivers valuable content about IHG and its Priority Club Rewards loyalty program.

"Priority Club Connect is a great way for our members to communicate with each other and allows us to build stronger relationships with them," said Lincoln Barrett, vice president, CRM & Multi-Brand Marketing, IHG. "The majority of our Priority Club Rewards members have something in common - they travel a lot or they love to travel. This community was designed by our customers and gives them the opportunity to come together to share great tips, advice and recommendations as well as to participate in special promotions."

Members using Priority Club Connect will have the unique opportunity to be bloggers on the site, upload photos and video content about their travel experiences and get details about special offers available only through the community.

Priority Club Connect participants will also be able to communicate with IHG executives. Based on questions that members submit through Priority Club Connect, executives at IHG will create a video to answer the questions and post it on the site for all members to view.

"I think it would be a good place to go to get more opinions and information on members, hotels, and destinations," said Christine Yurko, Priority Club Rewards Platinum member. "It could be a valuable resource when planning business and leisure trips. I'm glad to see that IHG is entering this foray for all its members."

Priority Club Connect is located at https://community.priorityclub.com/

Priority Club Rewards is the loyalty program for IHG's seven hotel brands - InterContinental� Hotels & Resorts, Crowne Plaza� Hotels & Resorts, Hotel Indigo�, Holiday Inn� Hotels and Resorts, Holiday Inn Express�, Staybridge Suites� and Candlewood Suites�. The programme is the largest in the industry with 42 million members worldwide. Membership in Priority Club Rewards is free. Customers can register at any of IHG's more than 4,150 hotels worldwide or through the Internet at www.priorityclub.com

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About IHG InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) [LON:IHG, NYSE:IHG (ADRs)] is the world's largest hotel group by number of rooms. IHG owns, manages, leases or franchises, through various subsidiaries, over 4,150 hotels and almost 620,000 guest rooms in nearly 100 countries and territories around the world. The Group owns a portfolio of well recognized and respected hotel brands including InterContinental� Hotels & Resorts, Hotel Indigo�, Crowne Plaza� Hotels & Resorts, Holiday Inn� Hotels and Resorts, Holiday Inn Express�, Staybridge Suites� and Candlewood Suites�, and also manages the world's largest hotel loyalty program, Priority Club� Rewards with 42 million members worldwide. IHG has more than 1,700 hotels in its development pipeline, which will create 200,000 jobs worldwide over the next few years.

InterContinental Hotels Group PLC is the Group's holding company and is incorporated in Great Britain and registered in England and Wales.

IHG offers information and online reservations for all its hotel brands at www.ihg.com and information for the Priority Club Rewards program at www.priorityclub.com. For the latest news from IHG, visit our online Press Office at www.ihg.com/media

About Priority Club Rewards With 42 million members globally, IHG�s Priority Club Rewards is the first, largest and fastest-growing guest loyalty program in the hotel industry. Winner of the 19th Annual Freddie Awards hotel loyalty Program of the Year for the second consecutive year and named Best Hotel Rewards Program in the World four years running by Global Traveler magazine, Priority Club Rewards offers more sought-after benefits and the greatest ease of use of any hotel loyalty program. In addition to flexible features like No Points Expiration and No Blackout Dates, Priority Club Rewards members have more options for point redemption than any other hotel loyalty program, including redemption at more than 500,000 lodging establishments worldwide � even at rivals� hotels � through the industry-leading Any Hotel, Anywhere Reward. Members can redeem points not only for hotel nights, but also for airline miles on more than 40 partner airlines, for auto rentals, for gift certificates and for hundreds of products available in the Rewards Catalog. And Priority Club Rewards is the only hotel loyalty program to offer members a Personal Shopper program that allows members to exchange points for items not found in the Rewards Catalog.

Enrollment in Priority Club Rewards is free. Guests can enroll by logging onto priorityclub.com, by calling 1-888-211-9874 or by inquiring at the front desk of any of IHG�s more than 4,150 hotels worldwide.