Crowne Plaza Hotels & Resorts

Company type	Subsidiary
Industry	Hotel
Founded	1983
Headquarters	Windsor, Berkshire, England
Number of locations	401 hotels 110,178 rooms
Area served	Worldwide
Parent	InterContinental Hotels & Resorts
Website	Crowne Plaza

Crowne Plaza is a British-American multinational chain of full service, upscale hotels headquartered in the United Kingdom. It caters to the business, leisure and blended travel market, and is especially known in the meetings, events and conventions market. The brand represents itself as a leader ^[1]in the blended travel space, thanks to the flexibility of its spaces and service.

The brand is part of the InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) 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] usually located in city centers, resorts, coastal towns or near major airports.

History

Crowne Plaza was established in 1983 as a breakout brand formed as the upscale sister brand to Holiday Inn.^[3] The first Crowne Plaza by Holiday Inn hotel opened that year in Rockville, Maryland.^[4] In 1988, Bass PLC (today InterContinental Hotels Group) purchased Holiday Corporation and in 1994 the brand was renamed Crowne Plaza Hotels.^[5] In 1999, Crowne Plaza opened its first European property, in Madeira, Portugal.^[6]

Notable properties

• 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 art deco 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 solar panels and geothermal heating and cooling pumps. Its stationary bicycles are connected to generators, which provide electricity to the hotel.

Gallery

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  Lumphini Park, Bangkok, Thailand.
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  Hotel International Prague, Czech Republic
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  Nuevo Laredo, Mexico
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  İzmir, Turkey
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  Bratislava, Slovakia
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  Kansas City, Missouri, United States
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  New York City, New York, United States
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  Huizhou, China
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  Kochi, India
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  Crowne Plaza Belgrade, Serbia
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  Sinks of the restrooms in Crowne Plaza Vientiane
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  Natick, Massachusetts, United States / Framingham, Massachusetts, United States