Holiday Inn is celebrating its 20 years of hospitality success in China…
Holiday Inn is celebrating its 20 years of hospitality success in China with a novel new promotion for guests.
The most recognised international brand in China, which encourages guests to be themselves, is taking its innovative, pioneering spirit to the next frontier, to give loyal guests a chance to try out an exciting new experience and to go, quite possibly, where no guest has gone before.
Research shows that guests look for new experiences when they travel on business and derive comfort from environments that are unrestricted and allow them to be themselves. Holiday Inn is giving three pairs of lucky guests the ultimate freedom to be themselves, free even from gravity, with the Holiday Inn Space Promotion, which was inspired by the successful launch of Shenzhou V and China`s first astronaut, Yang Liwei.
The winners of the Holiday Inn Space Promotion get a free roundtrip to Moscow, a two-night stay in Holiday Inn Moscow, a visit to a leading astronaut training centre in Moscow and a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to undergo zero-gravity astronaut training and to experience the weightlessness of floating in space. The prize includes the astronaut training centre fees.
With the Holiday Inn Space Promotion, InterContinental Hotels Group scores yet another first. InterContinental Hotels Group has an excellent track record of giving guests what they want, and being the first to do so.
Said InterContinental Hotels Group Managing Director, Asia Pacific, Mr. A. Patrick Imbardelli, In the past 20 years, the Holiday Inn brand has grown in tandem with China`s progress. Today, As China explores the new space frontier, we would like to show our support by sending our Chinese guests to experience what`s like to be in space! This Holiday Inn space promotion is a great platform to demonstrate Holiday Inn`s innovativeness and its `Can Do` spirit.
The Group was one of the pioneer international hotel companies in China when it opened its first hotel, the Holiday Inn Lido, in Beijing in 1984. It was also the first to launch a Chinese language website and the first to offer online reservations options to customers who do not use credit cards. And since 1984, InterContinental Hotels Group, the world`s most global hotel company, has expanded its distribution in China to 45 hotels.
The Holiday Inn brand is owned by InterContinental Hotels Group, the world`s largest and most global hotel company, with 3,500 hotels offering 535,000 rooms in nearly 100 countries and territories. Over the years, Holiday Inn`s winning formula of world-class hospitality for value-minded travelers has made it the largest mid-scale international hotel brand in China, consistently delivering on its service brand offerings of the positive `Can Do` service and a `Great Night`s Sleep`.
There are currently 92 Holiday Inn in Asia Pacific, 26 of which are in Greater China, in various cities including Beijing, Chengdu, Chongqing, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Harbin, Hefei, Hothot, Hong Kong, Macau, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Tianjin, Wuhan, Xiamen, Zhengzhou, Shenyang, Sanya, Zhuhai and Daya Bay.
Holiday Inn is best known for offering warm and friendly service that makes guests feel at ease. Guests at Holiday Inn the world over never cease to be impressed by the staff`s `Can Do` spirit. Holiday Inn has won the Business Traveler Award for the best mid-market hotel brand in the world and Asia Pacific for the third time in 2003.
To thank customers for their loyalty and continued support all these years, Holiday Inn will pick one lucky winner each month, from June to August 2004. The lucky winner whose name is drawn wins a Holiday Inn Space Promotion trip for two. Guests of Chinese nationality, who stay a minimum of two consecutive nights at any of the Holiday Inn hotels in Mainland China, Hong Kong or Macau, are entitled to a lucky draw chance.
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