Business Travelers Select 14 InterContinental Hotels Group Properties as Best Hotels in Central and South America.

MIAMI -- InterContinental Hotels Group Garners Largest Volume of #1 Votes of Any Hotel Chain in Annual Survey by Latin Finance Magazine

Reinforcing its position as one of the world's leading hotel groups, a survey of business travelers named 14 InterContinental Hotels Group (NYSE:IHG) properties as the best hotels in their cities. The rankings were published in Latin Finance Magazine's Latin America Corporate Travel Guide.

The #1 ranked InterContinental Hotels Group include:

--InterContinental Medellin

--Real InterContinental Costa Rica 

--Real InterContinental Tegucigalpa

--Real InterContinental San Salvador 

--Real InterContinental Guatemala

--Real InterContinental Metrocentro Managua

--Real InterContinental San Pedro Sula 

--Tamanaco InterContinental Caracas

Several of these hotels have been named as one of the top hotels in its city for many consecutive years.

Latin Finance is a leading magazine of finance and investment in Latin America. As part of its annual Corporate Travel Guide to Latin America, CEOs, CFOs, bankers and financial analysts are asked to vote on their preferred hotel in each city. This year, travelers showed overwhelming fondness for InterContinental Hotels in several Latin American cities.

Other properties that received high accolades from the region's corporate travelers include the Crowne Plaza Managua, Crowne Plaza Trinidad, and the Miramar InterContinental Panama, all ranked as #2, and the InterContinental Rio, InterContinental Sao Paulo, V Centenario InterContinental Santo Domingo all ranked as #3.

"We are delighted to receive such strong support from business travelers," says Alvaro Diago, Area President of InterContinental Hotels Group Latin America. "We are committed to meeting the specific requirements of business travelers; we have worked to modernize our properties and create new service standards across the region. This survey truly showcases the hard work of our staff in ensuring that we meet our customer's service standards in today's complex world of business travel."

InterContinental Hotels Group has hotels in almost every major business district throughout Central and South America. And, for 58 years, InterContinental Hotels & Resorts has been serving the needs of business and leisure travelers in Latin America and around the world. Today, the prestigious global chain has enhanced its offerings by building new hotels, upgrading many properties and raising the bar for service standards.

InterContinental Hotels Group offers information and reservations capability on the Internet -- http://www.intercontinental.com for InterContinental Hotels & Resorts, http://www.crowneplaza.com for Crowne Plaza Hotels & Resorts, http://www.holiday-inn.com for Holiday Inn hotels, http://www.hiexpress.com for Holiday Inn Express hotels, http://www.staybridge.com for Staybridge Suites by Holiday Inn hotels and for InterContinental Hotel Group's rewards program, http://www.priorityclub.com.