IAHI Fact Sheet

• Established in 1955, the IAHI was the first association of owners in the hotel industry.
• IAHI members own and operate InterContinental Hotels Group brand hotels worldwide, including:
  • Crowne Plaza® Hotels and Resorts
  • Hotel Indigo™
  • Holiday Inn® Hotels and Resorts
  • Holiday Inn Express®
  • Holiday Inn SunSpree® Resorts
  • Holiday Inn Select®
  • Staybridge Suites®
  • Candlewood Suites® hotels
• IAHI members include more than 5,500 owners and operators representing more than 2,500 member hotels in the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Canada, Mexico and Latin America.
• IAHI members have more than $1 billion in buying power.
• The IAHI represents its membership by working together with InterContinental Hotels Group to maintain the highest professional hospitality standards for its brands.
• The IAHI’s mission: The Board of Directors, Committees, Task Forces, Association Staff, and Members are aligned to accomplish the following goals:
  1. QUALITY IMPROVEMENT– Monitor hotel quality scores to help deliver high-quality, consistent guest experiences within the IHG family of brands.  Develop IAHI Regional Operations Councils that focus on specific steps to improve hotel-level quality.
  2. HOLIDAY INN– Aggressively support IHG’s efforts to return the Holiday Inn brand to industry leadership in brand performance, quality and return to owners.
  3. IHG BRANDS - Clearly define and ensure effective use of marketing funds to enhance the positioning, standards and programs associated with each of the IHG brands to ensure success with both consumers and owners.
  4. FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE - Increase RevPAR yield for each brand in comparison to the level achieved in 2006. Specific objectives for each brand will be set in conjunction with IHG and IAHI Brand Committees and tracked throughout the year.
  5. MEMBERSHIP INVOLVEMENT - Increase the IAHI membership to 80% worldwide. Broaden the involvement and communication with owners in all global regions with growth emphasis on Asia Pacific and Latin America.
  6. EDUCATION –Enhance IAHI membership value through continuation of the General Managers Academy, Leadership Institute and IAHI/IHG Meetings.  Introduce an advanced real estate development class offered through Cornell University.
  7. DISTRIBUTION CHANNEL PERFORMANCE – Ensure the optimum performance is generated for all brands by all distribution channels by working in a collaborative manner with IHG.
  8. BEST PRACTICES - Using the Regional Operations Councils as the success platform, develop a system of best practice sharing and implementation to drive increased effectiveness of pricing initiatives and quality efforts.
  9. IAHI AWARENESS – Continue to raise the profile of the IAHI through public relations and marketing efforts.
  10. IAHI ASSOCIATE MEMBERSHIP – Enhance membership value through enhanced relationships with key targeted vendors in the hospitality industry.
• The IAHI is governed by a Board of Directors who is responsible for leading the Association and determining the direction it will take to fulfill its mission. Board members are elected to two-year terms.