ATLANTA, Nov. 15, 2017 /PRNewswire/
-- IHG® (InterContinental Hotels Group) is working
with the nation's leading online and mobile food-ordering
company Grubhub®, and the world's leading provider
of online restaurant reservations, OpenTable®, to offer
members a unique takeout and dining out point earning benefit for
using either service via IHG channels. These innovative
collaborations make IHG® Rewards Club, the loyalty
program for IHG, the first hotel loyalty program to offer
members consistent point earning benefits for ordering delivery to
the hotel or dining on or off property.
The Grubhub integration will be offered across markets where
Grubhub is available in more than 1,000 hotels in the U.S. for
guests staying at the Holiday Inn Express®, Staybridge
Suites® and Candlewood Suites® brands.
The OpenTable integration is global; starting now
IHG® Rewards Club members can access OpenTable via IHG
channels and book reservations at any OpenTable restaurant in the
U.S., including those at select IHG hotels, with the restaurant
options expanding to the U.K. and Australia by the end of the 2017.
Members will earn 500 IHG® Rewards Club points for
their first completed OpenTable reservation via IHG channels. With
each subsequent completed reservation via IHG channels, they will
earn 300 points for dining at a restaurant at an IHG hotel or 150
points for any other restaurant reservation. This is in addition to
the existing benefit for IHG® Rewards Club members to
earn ten points for every dollar spent at restaurants at IHG hotels
(excluding Kimpton®) and billed to their folio.
Members will earn 500 IHG® Rewards Club points the
first time they order via IHG channels with Grubhub and 250 IHG
Rewards Club points for each subsequent Grubhub transaction via IHG
channels.
To earn points for using OpenTable or Grubhub, members must
order or book through IHG channels, including the IHG App, IHG
website and IHG® Connect, the on-property Wi-Fi
experience at IHG properties.
Liz Crisafi, Head of Loyalty,
Partnerships and Portfolio Marketing, The Americas, IHG,
said: "Our members have told us that they want more ways
to earn while dining with us, and now these innovative programs
with OpenTable® and Grubhub® are an easy way
to get rewarded, whether ordering delivery to their hotel room,
dining at the in-hotel restaurant or grabbing a bite on the road.
These new benefits now give our members the ability to create an
even better food and beverage experience and represent another
great way we are evolving our program to meet their needs
throughout the entire travel process."
Stan Chia, Chief Operating
Officer, Grubhub said: "We're always looking for new ways to
make it easier for our diners to find the food they want from the
broadest, best set of local restaurants. Through our collaboration
with IHG, we're excited to allow hotel guests to discover food from
the best local restaurants and have it delivered directly to their
hotel room."
Scott Jampol, OpenTable Senior
Vice President of Marketing, said: "We're excited to help IHG
guests reserve the perfect table at must visit destination
restaurants as well as help them discover hidden gems that offer
authentic, local experiences. Whether IHG guests are traveling
somewhere new or dining at their favorite neighborhood restaurant,
we're looking forward to serving as their dining passport and
connecting them with tens of thousands of our restaurant
partners."
About IHG® Rewards Club
With more
than 100 million enrolled members globally,
IHG® Rewards Club is the first and largest guest
loyalty program in the hotel industry. Named Best Hotel
Rewards Program in the World ten years running as voted by the
readers of Global Traveler magazine, IHG® Rewards Club
offers sought-after benefits and is easy to use. Members
qualify for Your Rate by IHG® Rewards Club, an
exclusive rate offered when they book direct. In addition to
flexible features like No Blackout Dates for Reward Nights, Points
& Cash and free Internet, IHG® Rewards Club members
have hundreds of options for redeeming points including: Reward
Nights, Flights AnywhereTM, Cars Anywhere, digital
downloads, brand name items and retail gift cards. Enrollment in
IHG® Rewards Club is free. Guests can sign up by
visiting ihg.com/rewardsclub, calling 1-888-211-9874,
downloading the IHG App or by inquiring at the front desk of any of
the nearly 5,300 IHG hotels worldwide.
About Grubhub
Grubhub (NYSE: GRUB) is the
nation's leading online and mobile takeout food-ordering
marketplace with the most comprehensive network of restaurant
partners and largest active diner base. Dedicated to moving eating
forward and connecting diners with the food they love from their
favorite local restaurants, the Company's platforms and services
strive to elevate food ordering through innovative restaurant
technology, easy-to-use platforms and an improved delivery
experience. Grubhub is proud to work with approximately 75,000
restaurant partners in over 1,300 U.S. cities and London. The Grubhub portfolio of brands
includes Grubhub, Seamless, Eat24, AllMenus and MenuPages.
About OpenTable
OpenTable, part of The
Priceline Group (NASDAQ: PCLN), is the world's leading provider of
online restaurant reservations, seating more than 23 million diners
per month via online reservations across more than 43,000
restaurants. The OpenTable network connects restaurants and diners,
helping diners discover and book the perfect table and helping
restaurants deliver personalized hospitality to keep guests coming
back. The OpenTable service enables diners to see which restaurants
have available tables, select a restaurant based on verified diner
reviews, menus, and other helpful information, and easily book a
reservation. In addition to the company's website and mobile apps,
OpenTable powers online reservations for nearly 600 partners,
including many of the Internet's most popular global and local
brands. For restaurants, the OpenTable hospitality solutions enable
them to manage their reservation book, streamline their operations,
and enhance their service levels. Since its inception in 1998,
OpenTable has seated over 1.4 billion diners around the world via
online reservations. OpenTable is headquartered in San Francisco and has bookable restaurants in
more than 20 countries, including Australia, Canada, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Mexico, the
Netherlands, United Kingdom
and the United States. Restaurants
are available for reservations in Dutch, English, French,
German, Japanese, and Spanish languages.
Notes to
Editors:
IHG®(InterContinental Hotels Group)
[LON:IHG, NYSE:IHG (ADRs)] is a global organisation with a broad
portfolio of hotel brands, including
InterContinental®Hotels & Resorts,
Kimpton®Hotels & Restaurants, Hotel
Indigo®, EVEN®Hotels,
HUALUXE®Hotels and Resorts, Crowne
Plaza®Hotels & Resorts, 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 nearly 5,300 hotels and
more than 785,000 guest rooms in almost 100 countries, with more
than 1,500 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. More than 350,000 people work across
IHG's hotels and corporate offices globally.
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