InterContinental Celebrates Opening 150th Property
OCTOBER 3, 2007. Following three years of aggressive development activity and brand expansion, InterContinental Hotels & Resorts will proudly welcome the opening of its 150th hotel this November - the new-build, 500-room InterContinental Dubai Festival City in the U.A.E.
This milestone will be followed days later when the brand opens its first hotel in Vietnam - the 359-room InterContinental Hanoi Westlake.
These two hotels join an impressive collection of new properties. In the last year (Oct 2006 - Sept 2007), 11 new hotels in 6 countries have been opened, including flagships InterContinental Boston and InterContinental London Park Lane, the conversion of InterContinental Los Angeles Century City, two InterContinental hotels in Greater China - Shenzhen and Jiuzhai Paradise and Japan's first two co-branded ANA InterContinental properties -- ANA InterContinental Tokyo and The Strings by InterContinental Tokyo.
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