IHG Just Bolted 1,808 European Rooms Onto Three Different Brands. The Owners Should Read the Fine Print.
IHG is converting 11 PentaHotels across Germany, Belgium, and France into Holiday Inn, Voco, and Garner properties by 2027, and the press release calls it a "transformation." The question nobody's asking is what happens to a hotel's identity when you split one portfolio across three brands with three different service standards, three different PIPs, and one very optimistic timeline.