Six Continents Hotels, Inc. (www.sixcontinentshotels.com), the world’s most global hotel company, announced that beginning on January 1, 2003, key Six Continents Hotels Global Sales clients will be able to take advantage of rate discounts for individual business travel at all Six Continents Hotels properties, which include InterContinental, Crowne Plaza, Holiday Inn, Holiday Inn Express and Staybridge Suites hotels worldwide.

By expanding the Corporate Gold Program to include all hotels in the Six Continents Hotels system, Global Sales clients will be able to experience the convenience and advantage of Six Continents Hotels’ globality and its mid-scale, upscale and extended-stay brand properties. Six Continents Hotels owns, manages, leases or franchises more than 3,300 hotels in a 100 countries and territories around the world.

“Expanding the Six Continents Hotels Corporate Gold Program to include all hotel properties worldwide is a way for us to show our clients how much we value and appreciate their loyalty and it allows our clients to experience the full-range of our hotel offerings anytime and anywhere in the world,” said Mike Fegley, vice president of Global Sales.

Six Continents Hotels is a leading global hotel group whose brands include InterContinental Hotels & Resorts, Crowne Plaza Hotels and Resorts, Holiday Inn, Holiday Inn Express and Staybridge Suites. It owns, operates or franchises more than 3,300 hotels and over 515,000 guest rooms in nearly 100 countries and territories around the world.

The following are some of the service marks owned by Six Continents Hotels, Inc., its subsidiaries or affiliates: Holiday Inn®, Crowne Plaza®, Express by Holiday Inn?, Holiday Inn Select®, Holiday Inn Garden Court®, Holiday Inn SunSpree® Resort, Staybridge Suites® by Holiday Inn, Holidex®, Priority Club®, InterContinental®, Forum®, Parkroyal®, and Centra®.

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