LONDON, Oct. 29, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- IHG® Hotels &
Resorts, one of the world's leading hotel companies, and Mr
& Mrs Smith, the world-renowned travel club and boutique hotel
specialists, today launched their loyalty partnership to give IHG
Rewards members an even wider selection of luxury and lifestyle
hotels to indulge in while they earn and redeem points.
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From today, the first selection of over 400 handpicked Mr &
Mrs Smith hotels are available to book by IHG Rewards members
through IHG's direct channels (including IHG.com and IHG mobile
app). New hotels will be added each week, with the full selection
of stylish properties available to book by late November.
This exclusive partnership more than doubles the number of
luxury and lifestyle hotels which members can choose from;
complementing IHG's luxury and lifestyle
portfolio of hotels and resorts across Six Senses Hotels
Resorts Spas, Regent® Hotels & Resorts,
InterContinental® Hotels & Resorts,
Kimpton® Hotels & Restaurants and Hotel
Indigo®.
IHG Rewards members will be able to experience even more of the
world's most sought-after luxury and lifestyle hotels, including
Smith's most seductive stays, such as Thyme in the Cotswolds, UK;
Caldera House in Jackson Hole and Casa Morada in Islamorada, near Key
West; Florida, US; Oltrarno
Splendid in Florence, Italy; and
The Retreat at Blue Lagoon in Iceland. This includes hotels in 11 new
destinations where IHG is not currently present: Barbados, Belize, Saint Kitts
and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Croatia, Iceland, Sweden, Morocco, Mozambique, Sri
Lanka and Myanmar.
As well as earning and redeeming loyalty points for their stays,
IHG Rewards members can expect great extras on arrival at each Mr
& Mrs Smith hotel. Elite IHG Rewards members will receive
Bonus Points on eligible room rates according to their tiers,
while InterContinental Ambassadors and Royal Ambassadors
and Kimpton Inner Circle members will receive a
complimentary room upgrade (where available) and Mr & Mrs
Smith GoldSmith welcome gift.
Claire Bennett, Chief
Marketing Officer, IHG, commented: "We're all dreaming about
when we can start to explore the world again and make new memories
whether that's a trip to immerse ourselves in the exhilarating, or
a restorative stay where every whim is taken care of. That dream
just got bigger for our IHG Rewards members, with an incredible
array of hotels and destinations to add to their bucket list. A
loyalty programme isn't just about the points – it's about access
to extraordinary experiences. This partnership does both.
"Mr & Mrs Smith is exactly the right partner for us – they
too are hotel lovers who shaped the industry. Together our
portfolio of luxury and lifestyle hotels now stretches from Six
Senses Hotels Resorts Spa, Regent Hotels & Resorts,
InterContinental Hotels & Resorts, Kimpton Hotels &
Restaurants and Hotel Indigo through to some of the special
independent and small boutique hotels in the world. We look forward
to helping IHG Rewards members write their next travel
stories."
Founded in 2003, Mr & Mrs Smith is the "Travel Club for
Hotel Lovers," offering a carefully curated collection of over
1,600 boutique and luxury properties in over 90 countries. Mr &
Mrs Smith's high-tech, high-touch approach to business enables deep
relationships with its boutique hotel partners and onward
distribution of its inventory to more travel-savvy guests.
Tamara Lohan MBE, CEO & co-founder, Mr & Mrs Smith,
commented: "We conceived Mr & Mrs Smith for discerning
travellers who want to discover truly extraordinary places with the
people they love. We are hugely excited about the opportunity to
bring our growing collection of carefully curated hotels to
millions of IHG Rewards members, so they may experience some of the
world's most seductive hotels."
Key highlights of IHG's loyalty partnership with Mr &
Mrs Smith:
- From 29 October a select group of over 400 luxury and boutique
Mr & Mrs Smith hotels will be made available on IHG booking
channels for IHG Rewards members to earn or redeem points during
qualified stays.
- Booking capability will be rolled out until all properties are
bookable by early December 2020.
- IHG Rewards points can be earned and redeemed at participating
Mr & Mrs Smith hotels when booked through IHG's direct
channels.
- The partnership gives IHG's members more choice in where to go,
with the addition of Mr & Mrs Smith properties in 11 countries
where IHG is not yet present.
- IHG Rewards members will receive complimentary Smith Extras,
including room upgrades (where available).
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- Elite IHG Rewards members will receive their standard tier
Bonus Points on eligible room rates (100% Spire Elite; 50% Platinum
Elite; 10% Gold Elite).
- InterContinental Ambassadors and Royal Ambassadors and Kimpton
Inner Circle members will receive a complimentary room upgrade
(where available), and a Mr & Mrs Smith GoldSmith welcome
gift.
Image is a selection from IHG Hotels & Resorts and Mr
& Mrs Smith. To view or download these images please
click here. Infographics to demonstrate the partnership
available here
Note to editors
About IHG Luxury & Lifestyle
Over 400 Mr & Mrs
Smith hotels will complement IHG's extensive collection of luxury
and lifestyle hotels which continues to grow, with more exciting
openings in 2020 and into 2021. Among others, Six Senses will see
the opening of Six Senses Shaharut located in the dramatic
Arava Valley south of the Negev Desert and Six Senses Fort Barwara
which is just a three-hour drive from Jaipur. Regent Phu Quoc will open in picturesque Phu Quoc island, off the coast of mainland
Vietnam. InterContinental sees a
wave of exciting global openings and developments from Thailand to West
Africa while Kimpton continues with its international
expansion with the recent openings of the highly-anticipated
Kimpton Shinjuku Tokyo and Kimpton Maa-Lai Bangkok, the
first Kimpton hotels in Japan and
Thailand respectively. The brand
renowned for its heartfelt service and design-forward hotels will
also be landing in Paris early
2021; while the US is set to welcome Kimpton Cottonwood Hotel,
Omaha, Nebraska; Kimpton Alton
Hotel, San Francisco; Kimpton
Pittman Hotel, Dallas, Texas; and
Kimpton Sylvan Hotel, Atlanta,
Georgia - all opening in the next six months. Similarly,
Hotel Indigo has expanded globally with a recently-opened hotel in
Bath and in Dubai - the brand's
first opening in the UK's South West and the Middle East respectively.
About Mr & Mrs Smith
Mr & Mrs Smith is the
travel club for hotel lovers: an award-winning boutique-hotel
booking service specialising in the world's most seductive stays.
Founded in 2003, there are now more than 1,000 boutique and luxury
hotels in the collection, all personally visited by a team of
globetrotting experts and anonymously reviewed by tastemakers you
can trust (including, over the years, Dita Von Teese, Stella McCartney, Bee
Shaffer, Lucy Laucht,
Jenny Packham, Philip Treacy and many more). Smith members get
the best prices guaranteed, free extras on arrival and first-class
service from in-house travel specialists. The collection now also
includes luxury villas and in 2018 their coffee-table book Mr &
Mrs Smith presents: The World's Sexiest Bedrooms was published
worldwide by Thames & Hudson.
About IHG®
IHG®
(InterContinental Hotels Group) [LON:IHG, NYSE:IHG (ADRs)] is
a global organisation with a broad portfolio of hotel brands,
including Six Senses Hotels Resorts Spas, Regent Hotels &
Resorts, InterContinental® Hotels &
Resorts, Kimpton® Hotels &
Restaurants, Hotel Indigo®, EVEN®
Hotels, HUALUXE® Hotels and Resorts, Crowne
Plaza® Hotels & Resorts, voco™, Holiday
Inn®, Holiday Inn Express®, Holiday Inn
Club Vacations®, Holiday Inn Resort®,
avid™ hotels, Staybridge Suites® and
Candlewood Suites®.
IHG franchises, leases, manages or owns more than 5,900 hotels
and approximately 883,000 guest rooms in more than 100 countries,
with over 1,900 hotels in its development pipeline. IHG also
manages IHG® Rewards Club, our global loyalty programme, which has
more than 100 million enrolled members.
InterContinental Hotels Group PLC is the Group's holding
company and is incorporated in Great
Britain and registered in England and Wales. Approximately 400,000 people work
across IHG's hotels and corporate offices globally.
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