Directors' Share Interests

InterContinental Hotels Group PLC
19 December 2003

19 December 2003



                       InterContinental Hotels Group PLC

                         Directors' Interests in Shares





On 18 December 2003, under the terms of the Six Continents Special Deferred
Incentive Plan ("the Plan"), described in the Six Continents PLC Annual Report
and Accounts 2002, the following number of InterContinental Hotels Group PLC ("
IHG") ordinary shares have been transferred for nil consideration from the
Company's Employee Share Ownership Trust ("ESOT") to directors of the Company:


Director                          Number of IHG shares
Mr R C North                      66,046
Mr S D Porter                     55,428





The transfer of these shares to each director was conditional on his continued
employment with the Group until 18 December 2003. The numbers of shares
transferred reflect their respective entitlements under the Plan prior to the
separation of Six Continents PLC in April 2003.







Following the transfer of the above shares, the ESOT will hold  2,147,159 IHG
shares. The following directors, who are among the potential beneficiaries of
the ESOT - Mr R M Hartman, Mr R C North, Mr S D Porter, Sir Ian Prosser and Mr R
L Solomons - are technically deemed to be interested in those shares.







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Name of Contact for this RNS Announcement:



Catherine Springett                                   Tel: [phone]

Head of Secretariat

InterContinental Hotels Group PLC




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