Directorate Change

InterContinental Hotels Group PLC
25 August 2005

25 August 2005



                       InterContinental Hotels Group PLC
                               Board Appointments





InterContinental Hotels Group PLC (IHG) today announces that Jonathan ("Jon")
Linen and Jennifer Laing have been appointed as additional independent
non-executive directors of the company. Jennifer Laing will join the IHG board
with effect from today.  Jonathan Linen will join the IHG board with effect from
1 December 2005.



Jon Linen, aged 61, is Vice Chairman of the American Express Company, a position
he has held since 1993, and a member of the American Express Global Leadership
and Global Management Teams. He was formerly President and Chief Operating
Officer of American Express Travel Related Services Company Inc.  He joined the
American Express Company in 1969 and held a range of positions in New Product
Development, Service Establishment, Marketing and Sales, and Travel Services
based in both the US and the UK. He also served as President and Chief Executive
Officer of Shearson Lehman Brothers, when it was owned by American Express in
the early 1990s. Jon is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and is on
the executive committee of The Travel Business RoundTable, The World Travel and
Tourism Council and NYC&Company.  He is a director of Bausch and Lomb, Yum!
Brands, Inc. and the US Travel and Tourism Promotional Advisory Board.



Jennifer Laing, aged 58, is Associate Dean, External Relations at the London
Business School, a role which encompasses the development and enhancement of the
London Business School brand globally.  She has held this position since 2002.
Prior to this she was with Saatchi & Saatchi, most recently as Chairman and CEO
of their North American Operations.  In the late 1980s she ran and then acquired
an advertising agency which became Laing Henry Limited, before selling the
business to Saatchi & Saatchi in 1995.  She then became Chairman, Saatchi &
Saatchi Advertising UK and later progressed to the board of Saatchi & Saatchi
Worldwide. Jennifer is a non-executive director of Hudson Highland Group Inc., a
US human resources company, and was formerly a non-executive director of Remploy
and a non-executive director of the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children
NHS Trust.  She is also a Fellow of the Marketing Society and a Fellow of the
Institute of Practitioners in Advertising.



Commenting on their appointments, David Webster, IHG's non-executive chairman,
said "I am delighted that Jon and Jennifer have agreed to join our board and we
very much look forward to welcoming them at this important time in the strategic
development of the company.  Their depth of experience in their respective
professional fields, worldwide travel and advertising (associated with brand
success), mean they will both become invaluable members of the non-executive
team".



Jon Linen and Jennifer Laing will serve on the remuneration and audit committees
respectively of the IHG board and both will serve on the nomination committee.



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For further information, please contact:


Investor Relations - InterContinental Hotels Group                [phone]

 (Gavin Flynn, Paul Edgecliffe-Johnson):                         [phone]

Media Enquiries - InterContinental Hotels Group                  [phone]

(Leslie McGibbon):                                               [phone]







Notes to Editors



InterContinental Hotels Group PLC of the United Kingdom (LON:IHG, NYSE:IHG
(ADRs) is the world's largest hotel group by number of rooms.  InterContinental
Hotels Group owns, manages, leases or franchises, through various subsidiaries,
more than 3,500 hotels and 535,000 guest rooms in nearly 100 countries and
territories around the world. The Group owns a portfolio of well recognised and
respected hotel brands including InterContinental(R) Hotels & Resorts, Crowne
Plaza(R) Hotels & Resorts, Holiday Inn(R) Hotels and Resorts, Holiday Inn
Express(R), Staybridge Suites(R), Candlewood Suites(R) and Hotel IndigoTM, and
also manages the world's largest hotel loyalty programme, Priority Club(R)
Rewards, with over 25 million members worldwide. In addition to this,
InterContinental Hotels Group has a 47.5% interest in Britvic, one of the two
leading manufacturers of soft drinks, by value and volume, in Great Britain.



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