Hotel group IHG, which includes InterContinental, Crowne Plaza and Holiday Inn among its well-known brands, earlier this month announced its first quarter trading update.
The results were good if not spectacular — RevPAR up 1.5% year on year — but the update was more interesting for another reason.
The group has more than 5,000 hotels and almost three-quarters of a million hotel rooms around the world in a broad range of brands, ranging from its limited service Holiday Inn Express brand to the boutique luxury Kimpton properties.
The table below shows the breakdown of the group's portfolio.
What is perhaps more interesting is looking at the group's pipeline as a proportion of the existing portfolio (in terms of number of hotels).
China is clearly a focus for the company. The fastest growing brand is the company's HUALUXE, aimed squarely at the Chinese market, although this is admittedly from a low base. The group also has 24 InterContinental openings in Greater China in the pipeline.
Richard Solomons, the company's chief executive, said on announcing the results: "We continued our focus on building and leveraging scale where it matters, signing rooms into our pipeline at the fastest rate since 2008. We also strengthened our position in the rapidly growing boutique segment, signing the first Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants property outside the Americas, in Amsterdam, and opening and signing a record number of rooms for our Hotel Indigo brand."
Extended stay is also an important growth area for the company. It has more than 100 Candlewood Suites and more than 100 Staybridge Suites properties planned.
The company says it has a 13% share of the active industry pipeline, three times more than its existing share of the market.