http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Hotel Reviews, Hotel Ratings, Hotel Openings en-us Copyright 2008 - SFO Media 2008-11-22T03:09:55Z HotelChatter HotelChatter http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/hcwhite.jpg http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/IHG%20Hotels http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/10/21/211317/75 <![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3873/IHG_Group_Google_Earth.jpg" class="imgborder"><p> <p>The <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Intercontinental%20Hotel%20Group"><b>InterContinental Hotel Group</b></a> might have <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/5/27/121759/232/hotels/_InterContinental_Hotels_Facebook_Page_Isn_t_All_That">failed at Facebook</a> but when they got their hands on Google Earth, they did a lot better.<p>If you head to the <a href="http://www.earth.ihg.com/">IHG Google Earth page</a> you can download their file and pop it into Google Earth and suddenly the globe is populated with IHG brand hotels. <p>Well, not entirely populated--you can easily see the concentration of hotels across North America and Western Europe--but you get the idea. Little green Hs pop up for Holiday Inns and the rest of their logos scatter in between them, until of course you zoom in and start seeing hotels at street level. It's all linked in to their booking system and is amandak 2008-10-22T09:30:48-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/5/27/121759/232 <![CDATA[<p><img align="right" src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/getaroomihg.png" class="imgborder">Like other hoteliers reaching out to a whole new Generation X, Y or Z of guests, <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/intercontinental%20hotels"><b>InterContinental Hotels</b></a> has a <i>Facebook</i> application called <a href="http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=6875892420&amp;ref=s/"><i>Hey, Get A Room!</i></a> <p> Seems more like "Hey, who cares?" Only 5 active users. (To be fair, the IHG Official Page has 176 "fans.") <p> At the page you gotta download the concept application to get started. So we did. A box with our Facebook friends came up first (yeah, we're all on Facebook), then another box with a bunch of reasons why we'd think to tell my friends to "get a room." Instead we thought about junior high. Among the reasons were:<p>&#183;"It's fun to jump on the beds"<br>&#183"It's time for mytwocents 2008-05-27T13:51:48-05:00 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/