Director/PDMR Shareholding

InterContinental Hotels Group PLC
09 March 2006

9 March 2006

                       InterContinental Hotels Group PLC
                           ("IHG PLC or the Company")


                         Directors' Interests in Shares


The following Directors and other persons discharging managerial responsibility
have been awarded conditional rights over the numbers of ordinary IHG PLC shares
shown below under the Company's Short Term Deferred Incentive Plan ("the Plan").
The Awards were made on 8th March 2006.


Director                                                  Number of IHG shares 
                                                          awarded


Andrew Cosslett                                           105,276
Richard Hartman                                           64,518
Stevan Porter                                             67,557
Richard Solomons                                          67,296

Other Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibility


Peter Gowers                                              45,510
Richard Winter                                            49,560






Under the terms of the Plan, participants are normally paid their annual
performance bonus in IHG PLC shares ("bonus shares"), deferred over a three year
period.  The shares will normally be released in equal amounts on the first,
second and third anniversary of the award date, and are conditional on the
directors' continued employment with the Group until each release date.



The above figures include matching shares awarded by the Company of 0.5 times
the deferred amount, in accordance with the terms of the Plan.



Following the award of shares to participants, the Employee Share Ownership
Trust will hold 1,188,269 IHG PLC shares. The following directors and persons
discharging managerial responsibility, who are among the potential beneficiaries
of the ESOT- Andrew Cosslett, Richard Hartman, Stevan Porter, Richard Solomons,
Tom Conophy, Peter Gowers, Tracy Robbins and Richard Winter- are technically
deemed to be interested in those shares.







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Name of Contact for this RNS Announcement:



Catherine Engmann                                   Tel: [phone]
Company Secretariat
InterContinental Hotels Group PLC


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