Holiday Inn Expands in New Zealand with Conversion in Queenstown and New Build Hotel in Christchurch

IHG | July 27, 2016

27 July, 2016 - InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG), one of the world's leading hotel companies, has announced it will add its first Holiday Inn hotel in Queenstown later this year following the conversion of the former Goldridge Resort; and a new build 120-room Holiday Inn Express hotel in Christchurch city centre, to open in 2018. The new hotels will operate under franchise agreements in partnership with USAR Queenstown Ltd and USAR Christchurch Limited, backed by well-known New Zealand hoteliers, the Sarin family. The rebrand of the Goldridge Resort to Holiday Inn Queenstown will officially take place in December 2016 following a $3....