Crowne Plaza

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Crowne Plaza Hotels & Resorts
TypeUpscale Hotels & Resorts
IndustryHotel
Founded1983
HeadquartersDenham, United Kingdom
Number of locations
Increase 431 hotels
Increase 120,582 rooms
Area served
Worldwide
Number of employees
Increase 4,621 Employees
ParentInterContinental Hotels Group
WebsiteCrowne Plaza

Crowne Plaza is a multinational chain of full service, upscale hotels headquartered in the United Kingdom. It caters to business travelers and the meetings and conventions market. It forms part of the InterContinental Hotels Group family of brands, which include InterContinental Hotels & Resorts and Holiday Inn Hotels & Resorts, and operates in nearly 100 countries with more than 431 hotels and 118,000 bedrooms,[1] usually located in city centers, resorts, coastal towns or near major airports.

History[]

A room at Crowne Plaza London Docklands, London, England

Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza was established in 1983 as the upscale division of Holiday Inn. The first Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza hotel opened that year in Rockville, Maryland.[2] In 1994, the brand was renamed Crowne Plaza Hotels, though it was still owned by Holiday Inn. Crowne Plaza opened its first European property in Madeira, Portugal, in 1999.[3]

Today, the brand represents 410 hotels globally in 52 countries with 112,317 rooms (as of March 2016) and an expanding 81 hotels in the pipeline.[4] In 1990, InterContinental Hotels Group purchased Holiday Inn, and Crowne Plaza became one of IHG's brands.

Notable properties[]

  • The Crowne Plaza Liverpool John Lennon Airport is the former terminal building of Liverpool Speke Airport, constructed in the 1930s and used until 1986. Its notable art deco features led to its listing as a heritage building, and subsequent conversion to a hotel.
  • The Crowne Plaza Copenhagen Towers is the first hotel in Denmark to generate all of its power from renewable sources, including solar panels and geothermal heating and cooling pumps. Its stationary bicycles are connected to generators, which provide electricity to the hotel.
  • Crowne Plaza Belgrade, renovated 2012–13, is the biggest Crowne Plaza hotel in Europe.

Sponsorship[]

Crowne Plaza Hotels & Resorts is the title sponsor of the Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial - a PGA Tour golf tournament held annually in Fort Worth, Texas. Starting in 2012, they are also officially sponsoring PGA Tour's 2010's Rookie of the Year, Rickie Fowler.[5]

Crowne Plaza Hotels & Resorts have been the sponsor of the British FIA World Touring Car Championship driver Andy Priaulx, a multiple touring car champion, since 2006. They now continue to support him in the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters (DTM), a popular European touring car championship, as an official sponsor of BMW Motorsport along with the American LeMans Series (ALMS) where Californian Joey Hand represents the brand for both series.[6]

Gallery[]

  • Lumphini Park, Bangkok, Thailand.

  • Shanghai, Jiading, China

  • Hotel International Prague, Czech Republic

  • Nuevo Laredo, Mexico

  • Torreón, Mexico

  • İzmir, Turkey

  • Bratislava, Slovakia

  • Kansas City, Missouri, United States

  • New York City, New York, United States

  • Huizhou, China

  • Kochi, India

  • Sinks of the restrooms in Crowne Plaza Vientiane

  • Natick, Massachusetts, United States / Framingham, Massachusetts, United States

  • Haifa, Israel

References[]

  1. ^ "Crowne Plaza Hotels & Resorts". development.ihg.com. Retrieved 2019-02-02.
  2. ^ https://www.anaihghotels.co.jp/corporate/pr/pdf/e003.pdf
  3. ^ https://www.anaihghotels.co.jp/corporate/pr/pdf/e003.pdf
  4. ^ "InterContinental Hotels Group - About our brands - Crowne Plaza Hotels & Resorts". InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG). 2013-03-29. Retrieved 2013-03-29.
  5. ^ "Nomination of Rickie Fowler as Rookie of the Year 2010 on". Pgatour.com. 2010-12-05. Archived from the original on 2010-12-08. Retrieved 2012-06-23.
  6. ^ "Official partnerships of Crowne Plaza Hotels & Resorts". Ichotelsgroup.com. Retrieved 2012-06-23.
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