Crowne Plaza by IHG is a multinational chain of full service, upscale

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s headquartered in the

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. It caters to the business, leisure and blended travel market usually located in city centers, resorts, coastal towns or near major airports. The brand is part of IHG Hotels & Resorts family of brands, which include InterContinental Hotels & Resorts and

Holiday Inn Holiday Inn by IHG is a chain of hotels based in Atlanta, Georgia and 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 ...

Hotels & Resorts, and operates in nearly 100 countries with more than 400 hotels and 110,000 bedrooms.

History

Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza was established in 1983 as a breakout brand, the upscale sister brand to

. The first Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza hotel opened that year in

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. In 1988, Bass PLC (today

InterContinental Hotels Group InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG), marketed as IHG Hotels & Resorts, is a British multinational hospitality company headquartered in Windsor, Berkshire, England. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange. It ...

) purchased Holiday Corporation and in 1994 the brand was renamed Crowne Plaza Hotels. In 1999, Crowne Plaza opened its first European property, in

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Notable properties

*The Crowne Plaza

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, located within

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, was voted the world's best airport hotel for seven times (2020-2025, and 2022 to 2024) by

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. *The Crowne Plaza Liverpool John Lennon Airport is the former terminal building of Liverpool Speke Airport, constructed in the 1930s and used until 1986. Its notable

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features led to its listing as a heritage building, and subsequent conversion to a hotel. *The Crowne Plaza Copenhagen Towers is the first hotel in Denmark to generate all of its power from renewable sources, including

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s and geothermal heating and cooling pumps. Its stationary bicycles are connected to generators, which provide electricity to the hotel.

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