India’s third largest City, to welcome Holiday Inn

Holiday Inn returns to Chennai, India’s third largest City

* New-build 200-room, 75-suite Holiday Inn to open in Chennai’s Estancia Integrated Township in 2011
* Hotel marks relaunch of Holiday Inn into Chennai, the brand’s city of establishment in India

IHG (InterContinental Hotels Group) is bringing its award-winning globally recognised Holiday Inn brand back to Chennai, India’s third largest city and where India’s first Holiday Inn hotel was established 35 years ago, in 1973. Holiday Inn Estancia Chennai, a brand new 200-room, 75-suite hotel, will be developed by leading India-based construction and engineering company L&T Arun Excello Commercial Projects Ltd and managed by IHG. The hotel will be part of the 82-acre Estancia Integrated Township, a mixed use development with a technology park earmarked as a special economic zone. Scheduled to open in 2011, the hotel is developed at an investment of US$35 million.

Leisure travellers will also be able to enjoy Holiday Inn Estancia Chennai’s proximity to Mahabalipuram, a UNESCO-listed 7th century port city famous for its ancient temples and sculptures.

Holiday Inn Estancia Chennai will add to IHG’s pipeline of 14 other Holiday Inn hotels in various stages of development across the country. Accounting for close to 4,000 rooms, these new Holiday Inn hotels are scheduled to open over the next three years in 12 cities nationwide.

IHG has an existing portfolio of 13 hotels in India and a robust pipeline of 21 hotels (more than 5,000) rooms under the InterContinental, Crowne Plaza and Holiday Inn brands. IHG’s Priority Club Rewards, the world’s largest hotel loyalty programme with 37 million members worldwide, recently welcomed Jet Airways of India as its newest member.

Read Press Release from IHG