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45-625: The hotel chain was founded by the Holiday Corporation in 1984 as Hampton Inn , a budget hotel. Its first hotel was a two-story, exterior-entrance building with 128 guest rooms located in Memphis, Tennessee . In late 1989, after some financial difficulties, Holiday Corporation prepared to sell its hallmark Holiday Inn hotels and started the holding company Promus Hotel Corporation , which included Hampton Inn, Embassy Suites , and Homewood Suites . With this change, Promus re-invested in

90-668: A concurrent use proceeding in the Patent and Trademark Office" in 1970, which was suspended when the name was contested before the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina ( Florence division) in 1973. The court said the Myrtle Beach hotel had plenty of repeat business and was not negatively impacted by the chain's motels in the area. The 1973 injunction meant the Myrtle Beach hotel

135-493: A brand of IHG Hotels & Resorts . The chain was founded in 1952 by Kemmons Wilson (1913–2003), who opened the first location in Memphis, Tennessee . The chain was a division of Bass Brewery from 1988-2000, Six Continents from 2000-03, and IHG Hotels & Resorts since 2003. It operates hotels under the names Holiday Inn, Holiday Inn Express , Holiday Inn Club Vacations, and Holiday Inn Resorts. As of 2018, Holiday Inn has hotels at over 1,100 locations. Kemmons Wilson ,

180-638: A campaign introduced in 2013, directed towards younger clientele that included in-room mini-fridges, new bedside tables with power access, updated bathrooms, and updated hotel exteriors. Hampton by Hilton was ranked in the top 5 in Entrepreneur 's Franchise 500 from 2010–2015. Today Hampton is in the budget to midscale lodging segment, designed to compete against other limited service brands like Fairfield Inn by Marriott , Holiday Inn Express , and Comfort Inn / Comfort Suites . In 2020, three Hampton Inn locations were used to hold over 100 refugee children by

225-441: A commitment to pay a living wage . As of 2024, IHG has 19 brands marketed under five segments: In 2012, IHG claimed more than 5,400 hotels, with 4,433 operated under franchise agreements, 907 managed by the company but separately owned and eight directly owned. As of 31 March 2019, IHG has 842,759 guest rooms and 5,656 hotels across nearly 100 countries. IHG Hotels & Resorts has a loyalty program. IHG One Rewards average

270-482: A franchise and cooperation agreement with German hotel operator Novum Hospitality which in turn will rebrand the majority of their currently over 100 properties into Holiday Inn, including a newly created sub-brand named Holiday Inn - the niu . Holiday Inn currently operates hotels and resorts using the following brands: For two decades a hotel called Holiday Inn located in Niagara Falls, Ontario prevented

315-542: A new 130-room "Next Generation" prototype hotel to rebuild the brand. It would include a bistro-like restaurant and an indoor pool. The first of these prototype hotels, the Holiday Inn Gwinnett Center, was built in Duluth, Georgia , in 2003. In 2008, Mitchells and Butlers sold off 21 Holiday Inn hotels in exchange for 44 standalone pubs to Whitbread . In September 2008, IHG announced the creation of

360-541: A new timeshare brand, Holiday Inn Club Vacations, a strategic alliance with The Family of Orange Lake Resorts. On October 24, 2007, IHG announced a worldwide relaunch of the Holiday Inn brand, which spelled trouble for the remaining motels. The relaunch was "focused on delivering consistently best in class service and physical quality levels, including a redesigned welcome experience [and] signature bedding and bathroom products". The first relaunched Holiday Inn opened in

405-486: A prominent sign, at least 50 feet (15 m) high and visible from both directions. He also wanted a changeable marquee to welcome different groups. The original sign cost $ 13,000. It is said that the sign's colors were selected because they were favorites of Wilson's mother. In 1982, following Wilson's departure, the Holiday Inn board of directors phased out the "Great Sign" in favor of a cheaper back-lit sign; Wilson considered it "the worst mistake they ever made". He loved

450-574: A resident of Memphis, Tennessee , was inspired to build a motel after being disappointed by the poor quality of roadside accommodations during a family road trip to Washington, D.C. During the construction, the name "Holiday Inn" was coined by Wilson's architect Eddie Bluestein as a joking reference to the 1942 musical film Holiday Inn . Their first hotel/motel opened in August 1952 as "Holiday Inn Hotel Courts" at 4941 Summer Avenue in Memphis, then

495-460: A visitor to any Holiday Inn could obtain reservations, by teleprinter , for any other Holiday Inn location. Promoting itself as "your host from coast to coast", Holiday Inn added a call center after AT&T 's introduction of 800 toll-free telephone number service in 1967. Holiday Inn opened their first campground , Trav-L-Park, in Angola, Indiana , in 1970. Branded as "The Nation's Innkeeper",

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540-740: Is listed on the London Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange . It is also a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index . The origins of the business may be traced to 1777 when William Bass established the Bass Brewery in Burton-upon-Trent . The company later changed its name to Bass Charrington. Its first entry into the lodging sector came with acquisition of tied public houses. In 1969, it launched

585-682: The Candlewood Suites brand, a midscale extended stay hotel brand with 108 franchised properties in the United States, for $ 15 million. IHG divested its soft drink holdings in 2005, selling its 48 percent stake in Britvic for £371 million through an initial public offering . In 2015, IHG acquired Kimpton Hotels , a boutique hotel brand with 62 managed properties, for $ 430 million. In February 2021, IHG announced an annual loss of $ 153 million caused by restrictions related to

630-554: The Crest Hotels chain. In 1988, after the British government limited the number of pubs that brewers could directly own, Bass further invested in the expansion of its hotel business with the purchase of Holiday Inn International from shareholders. Bass sold off the bulk of Crest Hotels in 1990, and the few remaining properties were absorbed into the Holiday Inn chain. Bass expanded its hotel business again in 1998, acquiring

675-741: The United States Department of Homeland Security prior to their expulsion. As of December 2019, Hampton by Hilton includes 2,544 hotels in 30 countries and territories with 266,933 rooms, including 72 that are managed with 10,061 rooms and 2,472 that are franchised with 256,872 rooms. 2,231 of Hampton's properties are located in the US with 220,174 rooms, including 38 that are managed with 4,697 rooms and 2,193 that are franchised with 215,477 rooms. The brand's first international location opened in Niagara Falls, Ontario in 1993. Starting in May 2007,

720-722: The "Great Sign" so much that it was engraved on his tombstone, with the marquee reading "FOUNDER" and the arrow aimed at his name. The majority of the signs were scrapped but working examples are owned by the American Sign Museum in Cincinnati, Ohio, The Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan, and a private collector in Park Hills, Kentucky. Although still a healthy company, changing business conditions and demographics saw Holiday Inn lose its market dominance in

765-505: The 1980s. Holiday Inns, Inc. was renamed "Holiday Corporation" in 1985 to reflect the growth of the company's brands, including Harrah's Entertainment , Embassy Suites Hotels , Crowne Plaza , Homewood Suites , and Hampton Inn . In 1988, Holiday Corporation was purchased by UK-based Bass PLC (then owners of the Bass beer brand), followed by the remaining domestic Holiday Inn hotels in 1990, when founder Wilson sold his interest, after which

810-546: The Albert Pick-franchised locations exiting the brand by the end of the 1950s. The rule on franchising remained until 1973, when a franchisee was denied the rights to build a location in Newark, New Jersey because of this rule; the United States District Court thus declared the rule a violation of a United States anti- monopoly law. In 1965, the chain launched Holidex, a centralized reservation system where

855-618: The COVID-19 pandemic. However, the company expected that the Holiday Inn Express brand would help in the recovery process. In 2024, IHG signed an expansive cooperation and franchise agreement with German hotel operator Novum Hospitality, rebranding and partially refurbishing all of their current properties (namely the niu , Yggotel , Novum Hotels , Select Hotels and acora living the city ) into IHG brands Holiday Inn , Holiday Inn Express , Candlewood Suites and Garner in

900-483: The Hampton Inn brand and began its change from a budget hotel to a middle-market limited service hotel to compete with their freshly sold former brand. The hotel chain was the first of the mid-price hotels to offer free continental breakfast and the first to introduce the "100 percent satisfaction guarantee." By 1990, the Hampton Inn chain included over 220 properties with more than 27,000 rooms. Hampton Inn and Suites

945-666: The Hampton by Hilton brand launched in China through a licensing agreement with Plateno Hotels Group. The first of 400 Chinese Hampton hotels opened in 2015. A similar agreement with the Wasl Asset Management group will bring Hampton by Hilton to Dubai . [REDACTED] Media related to Hampton Inn at Wikimedia Commons Holiday Corporation Holiday Inn is a chain of hotels based in Atlanta , Georgia and

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990-516: The Holiday Inn Corporation from operating one of its own hotels in that city since the name was already in use. The hotel used a logo similar to the old Holiday Inn logo from the 1970s. The Holiday Inn Corporation directory referred to the hotel as "not part of this Holiday Inn system". The hotel also owned the holidayinn.com domain, which forced the much larger corporation to use holiday-inn.com. In 2006, an agreement between IHG and

1035-492: The Holiday Inn brand. The brand name Holiday Inn is now owned by IHG, which in turn licenses the name to franchisees and third parties who operate hotels under management agreements. In 1999, the hotel that changed into the Nickelodeon Suites Resort Orlando in 2005, opened, called "Holiday Inn". The Wall Street Journal reported in 2002 that the company, led by Ravi Saligram, was producing

1080-554: The Kemmons Wilson Companies of Memphis. The "Great Sign" was the roadside sign used by Holiday Inn during its original era of expansion from the 1950s to 1970s. It was perhaps the company's most successful form of advertising. It was extremely large and eye-catching, but was expensive to construct and maintain. The manufacturer of the sign was Balton & Sons Sign Company, and it was originally designed by sketch artists Gene Barber and Roland Alexander. Wilson wanted

1125-671: The Niagara Falls, Ontario hotel owners was reached that allowed both the Hotel and Holidayinn.com to be incorporated into the IHG system. During the 1960s and early 1970s, Holiday Inn hotels located in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina were simply called "Holiday" because a local motel already had the "Holiday Inn" name. The Myrtle Beach motel started as Ocean Front Lodge in 1948 but changed the name to Holiday Inn in 1949 (three years before

1170-672: The North American upscale extended stay market. In March 1998, Bass acquired the InterContinental brand, expanding into the luxury hotel market. In 2000 Bass sold its brewing assets (and the rights to the Bass name) and changed its name to Six Continents PLC . InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) was created in 2003 after Six Continents split into two daughter companies: Mitchells & Butlers PLC to handle restaurant assets, and IHG to focus on soft drinks and hotels, including

1215-503: The U.S. in spring 2008. Currently there are more than 2,500 relaunched Holiday Inn brand hotels around the world, and the Holiday Inn global brand relaunch process was completed by the end of 2010. By then, the majority of the HI motels were removed from the chain, with a few exceptions. (In the 1980s and 1990s, HI hotels were built alongside the motel properties [i.e. Baton Rouge, Louisiana] in order to provide more amenities and newer rooms.) When

1260-483: The US by 1958, 100 by 1959, 500 by 1964, and 1000 in 1968. A number of early locations were franchised , some by the Albert Pick corporation of Chicago . Because a number of Albert Pick franchisees were recommending customers to other Albert Pick hotels instead of to Holiday Inn, the Holiday Inn corporation enacted a rule that franchisees could not own locations of another hotel as well as a Holiday Inn. This led to

1305-635: The brand began to operate as Hampton by Hilton exclusively abroad at its locations in Canada and Latin America. In 2009, the first "Hampton by Hilton" signage was put in place in the UK with the opening of the brand's first European location. The brand continued to operate internationally as Hampton by Hilton until 2015, when Hilton announced that the official brand names of Embassy Suites and Hampton would include "by Hilton" at all of their locations. In October 2014,

1350-683: The chain put considerable financial pressure on traditional motels and hotels, setting the standard for competitors like Ramada Inn , Quality Inn , Howard Johnson's , and Best Western . By June 1972, with over 1,400 Holiday Inns worldwide, Wilson was featured on the cover of Time magazine and the franchise's motto became "The World's Innkeeper". In 1963, Holiday Inn signed a long-term deal with Gulf Oil where it agreed to accept Gulf credit cards to charge food and lodging at all of its American and Canadian hotels, in return for Gulf building service stations on many Holiday Inn properties, particularly near major U.S. and Interstate highways. The arrangement

1395-428: The company, with the remainder under management or franchise agreements. After the separation from Six Continents, IHG began an asset disposal program, selling off hotels to move towards an "asset-light" model focused on franchising and management. From 2003 to 2015, the company sold around 200 hotels for a total of almost $ 8 billion, leaving only 7 owned or leased properties in the portfolio. In 2004, IHG acquired

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1440-414: The founding of the chain), and put up a sign in 1955 with similar lettering to that of the chain, which registered its sign in 1954. The chain first franchised motels in the area in 1956. The Myrtle Beach hotel put up a sign resembling the "Great Sign" in 1968, and used " ® " with its name, though many of its items came from suppliers which assumed they were selling to the chain. The Myrtle Beach hotel "began

1485-512: The hotel group was known as Holiday Inn Worldwide. The remainder of Holiday Corporation (including the Embassy Suites Hotels , Homewood Suites , and Hampton Inn brands) was spun off to shareholders as Promus Companies Incorporated . In 1990, Bass launched Holiday Inn Express, a complementary brand in the limited service segment. In 1997, Bass created and launched a new hotel brand, Staybridge Suites by Holiday Inn, entering

1530-465: The hotel had followed all restrictions. A 1981 decision by the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the 1979 action. [REDACTED] Media related to Holiday Inn at Wikimedia Commons IHG Hotels %26 Resorts InterContinental Hotels Group ( IHG ), marketed as IHG Hotels & Resorts , is a British multinational hospitality company headquartered in Windsor, Berkshire , England. It

1575-675: The luxury Inter-Continental hotel chain, which had been founded by Juan Trippe , from the Saison Group . The hotel division was then renamed from Holiday Hospitality to Bass Hotels & Resorts, to reflect its expansion beyond the Holiday Inn brand. Bass changed its name to Six Continents in 2001, after having sold its brewing assets and the Bass name, and Bass Hotels & Resorts became Six Continents Hotels. Six Continents announced in October 2002 that it would split itself in two, with one company holding its pubs and restaurants, and

1620-416: The main highway (U.S. Hwy. 64/70/79) to Nashville. It was demolished in 1994. Wilson partnered with Wallace E. Johnson to build additional motels on the roads entering Memphis. In 1953, three more Holiday Inns were built on U.S. 51 South , Highway 51 North, and U.S. 61 . By 1957 there were 30 Holiday Inns, and Wilson began marketing the chain as "Holiday Inn of America". There were 50 locations across

1665-401: The other holding its hotel and soft drink businesses. The split was completed on 15 April 2003, establishing InterContinental Hotels Group as an independent company, alongside the pub company, Mitchells & Butlers . IHG's hotel portfolio at the time comprised 3,325 properties, primarily under the Holiday Inn, Crowne Plaza , and InterContinental brands. Of those, 190 were owned or leased by

1710-509: The price of room-only hotel accommodations. In February 2014, IHG agreed to end the practice of price fixing. In May 2012, the UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) warned IHG that it must include VAT in its advertised prices. In August 2012, a report by Which? magazine showed that IHG was continuing to violate VAT rules. In November 2017, London mayor Sadiq Khan accused IHG of failing to fulfil

1755-440: The production of an alarm clock which featured an easy-to-set alarm and an mp3 player hook-up . Other changes made during the upgrade were the switch to white bedding, adding hot food items to continental breakfast options and free high-speed internet to rooms. In 2012, under the "Perfect Mix" initiative, the company completed upgrades to the lobbies of its hotels adding more social space. Hampton continued to renovate its spaces with

1800-522: The relaunch occurred, these motels were either demolished or closed off, even if a full-service hotel was already on site. Today, fewer than 10 original Holiday Inn motels still operate, others having been replaced by newer Holiday Inn Express locations or having switched to other chains. In August 2012, the chain celebrated its 60th anniversary. In 2024, IHG announced a vast expansion of the Holiday Inn and Holiday Inn Express brands in Germany as part of

1845-581: The university as a home base for its corporate aircraft. The company later branched into other enterprises, including Medi-Center nursing homes, Continental Trailways , Delta Queen , and Show-Biz, Inc., a television production company that specialized in syndicated country music shows. Wilson also developed the Orange Lake Resort and Country Club near Orlando and a chain called Wilson World Hotels. The company sold Trailways in 1979. As of 2014, Wilson's family still operates hotels as part of

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1890-516: The upcoming years. This will increase IHG's portfolio in Germany by over 100 hotels. The company's worldwide headquarters and European offices are located in Windsor, Berkshire , England. IHG maintains regional offices in Atlanta , Singapore and Shanghai . In July 2012, the Office of Fair Trading alleged that IHG had broken competition law by preventing online travel agents from discounting

1935-630: Was copied by competing lodging chains and major oil companies during the mid-to-late 1960s, but fell out of favor following the 1973 oil crisis . The Gulf/Holiday Inn arrangement ended around 1982. In 1971, the company constructed the Holiday Inn University and Conference Center, a teaching hotel for training new employees, in Olive Branch, Mississippi . In 1973, the company built the Olive Branch Airport north of

1980-476: Was granted the right to use the name but with a different style of lettering. The concurrent use proceeding resumed for the Myrtle Beach hotel, which continued to operate as "Holiday Inn", although it was required to use a distinctly different font. A 1976 ruling granted the Myrtle Beach Hotel the right to a service mark. A 1979 order denied a motion to modify the 1973 injunction, though it was believed

2025-518: Was introduced in 1995, which featured two-room suite style hotel rooms complete with living room and kitchen areas. Raymond E. Schultz was credited with creating the Hampton Inn brand. His wife, Erin Schultz, is credited with inspiring the name for the brand. In 1999, Promus Hotel Corporation was bought by Hilton Worldwide for $ 3.7 billion. In 2004, as part of the $ 100 million "Make it Hampton" initiative, Hampton began upgrading its hotels including

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