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InterContinental Hotel Group Wants You To Google Earth Your Hotel Plans

The InterContinental Hotel Group might have failed at Facebook but when they got their hands on Google Earth, they did a lot better.

If you head to the IHG Google Earth page you can download their file and pop it into Google Earth and suddenly the globe is populated with IHG brand hotels.

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 technologically pretty clever, we think.

But. (Always a but). Their idea is that you'll actually look for a hotel by Google Earth-ing your way around. We love seeing the logos pop up all over the place but we're not sure if we'd use this as a hotel research method. Maybe once we'd found a hotel in the right city we could check it out here to see what's nearby ... or maybe we're just not geeky enough. Yet.

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Intercontinental Hotel Group Finally Admitting The Obvious

Where: United States

It's only taken like five months, but hotel firms are starting to admit what everyone has assumed for so long. Hotel development will slow down due to the economy.

The Financial Times has some insight into this turn of events:

IHG has 1,788 new openings in the pipeline and Mr Cosslett admitted for the first time that some of its openings could be delayed by "up to a few months."

These latest words of wisdom come from Andrew Cosslett (right) who is the CEO of InterContinental Hotel Group which owns Holiday Inn, Staybridge Suites, Hotel Indigo, and other hotel brands, IHG is also the largest hotel operator in the world with over 4,000 hotels.

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Candlewood Suites To Get a New Look

Where: 1709 Sugarland Drive [map], Sheridan, WY, United States, 82801

Candlewood Suites, the extended-stay brand from IHG Hotels, has announced a new suite protoype for its hotels. The first major design change to the hotel chain in 12 years can now be experienced at the Candlewood Suites Sheridan in Sheridan, Wyo.

Each of the hotel's 75 guest suites feature the brand's new Comforts of HomeTM Bedding Collection with upgraded mattresses and box spring sets, mattress topper, fluffy duvet inserts and poly-cotton covers matching the hotel's color scheme, 250-thread count micro-check sateen sheets in "Candlelight", triple sheeting, contemporary cotton estate blankets, choice of three upgraded pillow types in firm, medium and feather and a decorative "Consider Us Home" pillow.

Aside from comfy sleep, Candlewood is also providing eco-friendly amenities like low-flow shower heads and toilets and Compact Fluorescent Light bulbs (CFLs).

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