InterContinental Hotels Group opens the Holiday Inn Cairns Harbourside on The Esplanade. It is the 11th Holiday Inn hotel in Australia.
IHG recently signed its first hotel in Tasmania, Crowne Plaza Hobart.
The group is also expanding the variety of brands it offers in key cities, such as in Sydney with the opening of Holiday Inn Express Sydney Macquarie Park in 2016 and the first?Holiday Inn Express?in Australia, and in Perth with the opening of InterContinental Perth in 2017, the brand?s debut in the city.
Across?Australia, IHG currently has a total of 25 hotels open across three brands:?InterContinental,?Crowne Plaza?and?Holiday Inn.
A further six hotels in the pipeline are due to open over the next three to five years. This includes the launch of the?Holiday Inn Express?brand next year.
There are currently nearly 1,200 Holiday Inn hotels open across the globe, with 267 hotels in the pipeline.