The InterContinental Hotel group is planning to open 35 new hotels in the UK within three years. This would create about 3000 jobs.
InterContinental Hotels set out their plans as they announced a 22% hike in half-year profits to £137million.
They said 24 of the new hotels will be Holiday Inns, five will be Hotel Indigos, three are Staybridge Suites and two are Crowne Plazas.
A luxurious new InterContinental will open in Westminster.
IHG’s London hotels led the market recovery, boosted by demand from business travellers.
In a sign of increasing economic confidence, the InterContinental in Park Lane saw revenues per room rise by 15%.
The increases were largely due to the revived business travel sector, while healthy leisure demand seen last year continued into the first half of 2010.
Globally, IHG, who run 650,000 rooms in 4500 hotels across the world, said Asia was leading the industry’s recovery, in particular from China.
