Private company

Crowne Plaza

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Hotel chain

Crowne Plaza by IHG is a multinational chain of full service, upscale hotels headquartered in the United Kingdom. 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 Hotels & Resorts, and operates in nearly 100 countries with more than 400 hotels and 110,000 bedrooms.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

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Crowne Plaza by IHG is a multinational chain of full service, upscale hotels headquartered in the United Kingdom. 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 Hotels & Resorts, and operates in nearly 100 countries with more than 400 hotels and 110,000 bedrooms.2

Corporate structure

Crowne Plaza is part of a group headed by IHG Hotels & Resorts. 33 entities, 7 countries on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

  • IHG Hotels & Resorts Windsor, United Kingdom
    • Crowne Plaza Windsor
    • Regent Hotels & Resorts Subsidiary · 51% · United States
      • Regent Taipei Subsidiary · Zhongshan District, Taiwan
    • Avid Hotels Subsidiary
    • Candlewood Suites Subsidiary
    • Even Hotels Subsidiary
    • Holiday Inn Subsidiary · Denham
    • Holiday Inn Club Vacations Subsidiary · Orlando, Florida, United States
    • Holiday Inn Express Subsidiary
    • Hotel Indigo Subsidiary
    • InterContinental Subsidiary · Denham
    • Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants Subsidiary · San Francisco
    • Room Key Subsidiary
    • Six Senses Hotels Resorts Spas Subsidiary · Park Ventures Ecoplex, Thailand
    • Staybridge Suites Subsidiary
    • Voco Subsidiary
    • ASIA PACIFIC HOLDINGS LIMITED Subsidiary · Windsor, United Kingdom
    • Garner Hotels Subsidiary
    • Holiday Inn Express & Suites Seattle-Sea-Tac Airport Subsidiary · King County, United States
    • Holiday Inn Resort Subsidiary
    • INTERCONTINENTAL HOTELS GROUP (INDIA) PRIVATE LIMITED Subsidiary · Gurgaon, India
    • INTERCONTINENTAL HOTELS GROUP (SHANGHAI) LTD (六洲酒店管理(上海)有限公司) Subsidiary · Shanghai, China
    • INTERCONTINENTAL HOTELS LIMITED Subsidiary · Windsor, United Kingdom
    • InterContinental New York Barclay, an IHG Hotel Subsidiary
    • Phoenicia InterContinental Hotel Subsidiary · Beirut, Lebanon
    • SC RESERVATIONS (PHILIPPINES), INC. Subsidiary · Atlanta, Georgia, United States
    • and 6 more

Built from parent and subsidiary links from GLEIF, the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (CC0); subsidiaries, stakes and holdings from Wikidata (CC0). Each entity in the chart links to its source.

The story

Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza was established in 1983 as a breakout brand, the upscale sister brand to Holiday Inn. The first Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza hotel opened that year in Rockville, Maryland. In 1988, Bass PLC (today InterContinental Hotels Group) purchased Holiday Corporation and in 1994 the brand was renamed Crowne Plaza Hotels. In 1999, Crowne Plaza opened its first European property, in Madeira, Portugal.

From Wikipedia’s article on Crowne Plaza, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Subsidiaries and ownership

Parent company

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Timeline

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Sources

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