125-room Holiday Inn Express opens.InterContinental Hotels Group InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) (LSE: IHG NYSE: IHG) is a multinational company which operates several hotel brands. The largest hotel company by number of rooms (556,000 as of March 2007 [1]), its headquarters are in Windsor just outside Greater London and announced that the new 125-room Holiday Inn Express Midtown-Fifth Avenue recently opened, representing another addition to the mid-scale brand's portfolio of limited-service hotels and its further expansion into U.S. urban markets. This project marks the Holiday Inn Express brand's first foray into Verb 1. foray into - enter someone else's territory and take spoils; "The pirates raided the coastal villages regularly" raid encroach upon, intrude on, obtrude upon, invade - to intrude upon, infringe, encroach on, violate; "This new colleague invades my the largest metropolitan area in the U.S. The new hotel reflects an increasing demand for new mid-tier hotels in large cities. Said Verchele Mills, vice president, brand management, Holiday Inn Express "As a leader in the segment, we are poised to reach metropolitan customers by further developing in areas such as New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. and Baltimore." |
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