IHG Hotels & Resorts Reports Half Year Results

Elie Maalouf, Chief Executive Officer, IHG Hotels & Resorts, said: “Our diverse global footprint and better-than-expected demand in most markets around the world delivered strong RevPAR growth of +4.1% in the first six months of 2026. Trading in the US accelerated in the second quarter, growth in Greater China continued and a good performance elsewhere in our EMEAA region helped offset challenges in the Middle East. This robust revenue growth, combined with an acceleration in net system growth, an efficient cost base driving further margin expansion and the ongoing return of surplus capital to shareholders, delivered adjusted EPS growth of +13%.

We had record levels of development activity with almost 200 hotel openings in the first half. This drove net system growth of 5% and expanded our global estate to 7,100 hotels. Our pipeline grew to 2,400 hotels with increases in all three regions and 352 signings in total – almost two a day – representing +8% growth year-on-year.

Thanks to the hard work of our teams, we’re making excellent progress on growing our brands, expanding in key geographic markets, developing our leading technology and enterprise platform, and driving ancillary fee streams. While there are ongoing impacts from the Middle East conflict, including some wider disruption to international travel flows, we continue to expect these to be fully offset by growth in demand elsewhere. This demonstrates the strength of IHG’s business model which is strategically diversified and resilient, with our ability to capture demand across geographies, chainscales and the different stay occasions of business, leisure and groups travel, as well as being heavily weighted to domestic and intra-regional travel.

We remain on track to meet full year consensus profit and earnings expectations. We are also confident in the successful delivery of our growth algorithm, which is driven by the strength of IHG’s enterprise platform and our ability to further capitalise on our scale, leading positions and the attractive long-term demand drivers for our markets......- Continue reading (Members Only) - Unlock Advantages with a LHN Membership - Read more here

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