Crowne Plaza - wikipedia Crowne Plaza Crowne Plaza Hotels & Resorts Type Upscale Hotels & Resorts Industry Hotel Founded Headquarters Denham, United Kingdom Number of locations 410 Area served Worldwide Parent InterContinental Hotels Group Website Crown Plaza Crowne Plaza is a multinational chain of full service, upscale hotels catering to business travelers and to the meetings and conventions market. It forms part of the InterContinental Hotels Group family of brands, which include InterContinental Hotels & Resorts and Holiday Inn Hotels & Resorts, and operates in 52 countries with more than 400 hotels, usually located in city centers, resorts, coastal towns or near major airports. Contents 1 History 2 Notable properties 3 Sponsorship 4 Gallery 5 References History Crowne Plaza in Kochi, India A room at Crowne Plaza London Docklands Originally branded as `` Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza '', the first United States Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza Hotel was opened in Rockville, Maryland, in 1983. Within a couple of years the brand was spun off as an independent chain ( still owned at the time by Holiday Inn ). The first Crowne Plaza Resort opened in Madeira, Portugal, in 1999. Today, the brand represents 410 hotels globally in 52 countries with 112,317 rooms ( as of March 2016 ) and an expanding 81 hotels in the pipeline. In 1990, the InterContinental Hotels Group purchased the Holiday Inn family ; today its portfolio includes the luxury brand InterContinental Hotels & Resorts, the upscale boutique brand Hotel Indigo, the upscale extended stay brand Staybridge Suites, the midscale extended stay brand Candlewood Suites, the midscale, full service brand Holiday Inn Hotels & Resorts, Holiday Inn Club Vacations, EVEN Hotels, HUALUXE Hotels & Resorts, and the midscale limited service brand Holiday Inn Express. Notable properties The Crowne Plaza Liverpool John Lennon Airport is the former terminal building of Liverpool Speke Airport, constructed in the 1930s and used until 1986. Its notable art deco features led to its listing as a heritage building, and subsequent conversion to a hotel. The Crowne Plaza Copenhagen Towers is the first hotel in Denmark to generate all of its power from renewable sources, including solar panels and geothermal heating and cooling pumps. Its stationary bicycles are connected to generators, which provide electricity to the hotel. Crowne Plaza Belgrade, renovated 2012 -- 13, is the biggest Crowne Plaza hotel in Europe. Crowne Plaza Hong Kong Causeway Bay opened in 2009 and is the first Crowne Plaza in Hong Kong. Sponsorship Crowne Plaza Hotels & Resorts is the title sponsor of the Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial - a PGA Tour golf tournament held annually in Fort Worth, Texas. Starting in 2012, they are also officially sponsoring PGA Tour 's 2010 's Rookie of the Year, Rickie Fowler. Crowne Plaza Hotels & Resorts have been the sponsor of the British FIA World Touring Car Championship driver Andy Priaulx, a multiple touring car champion, since 2006. They now continue to support him in the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters ( DTM ), a popular European touring car championship, as an official sponsor of BMW Motorsport along with the American LeMans Series ( ALMS ) where Californian Joey Hand represents the brand for both series. Gallery Crowne Plaza Bangkok Lumpini Park, Bangkok, Thailand. Hamilton Crowne Plaza, Washington, D.C. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Shanghai, Jiading, China Prague, Czech Republic Nuevo Laredo, Mexico Torreón, Mexico İzmir, Turkey Bratislava, Slovakia Kansas City, Missouri, USA New York City, New York, USA Huizhou, China Kochi, India Crowne Plaza Belgrade, Serbia Newton, Massachusetts, USA References Jump up ^ `` InterContinental Hotels Group - About our brands - Crowne Plaza Hotels & Resorts ''. InterContinental Hotels Group ( IHG ). 2013 - 03 - 29. Retrieved 2013 - 03 - 29. Jump up ^ http://www.businesstraveller.asia/asia-pacific/news/crowne-plaza-arrives-in-hongkong-via-causeway-bay Jump up ^ `` Nomination of Rickie Fowler as Rookie of the Year 2010 on ''. Pgatour.com. 2010 - 12 - 05. Retrieved 2012 - 06 - 23. Jump up ^ `` Official partnerships of Crowne Plaza Hotels & Resorts ''. Ichotelsgroup.com. Retrieved 2012 - 06 - 23. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Crowne Plaza. 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