IHG to Launch Homegrown Chinese Hotels

Intercontinental Hotels Group (IHG) will launch a new upscale
hotel brand in China by the middle of the year and is planning to
eventually expand the brand across Asia-Pacific, according to a report
in MarketWatch.



In an interview with Dow Jones Newswires, Jan Smits, IHG�s
chief executive of Asia, Middle East & Africa operations, explained
that the move was