Hong Kong, China, August 2, 2011 /Xinwengao.com/ - Beijing, China (August 02, 2011) /Xinwengao.com/ — Over the last six years, the IHG Beijing Cluster Hotels have been working closely with the China Youth Development Foundation to raise much-needed funds to provide children in China’s poverty-stricken areas with the opportunity for an education. This year the IHG Beijing Cluster Hotels will host their 7th Charity Golf Tournament on the 3rd of September at the Oriental Pearl Golf Course. The event will commence with an 18-hole round of golf, with snacks and refreshments served on the course. The game will be followed by a gala dinner and charity raffle at the wonderful clubhouse. We appreciate your support and look forward to your continuous generosity. Participating Hotels (by brand) Intercontinental Beijing Financial Street Intercontinental Beijing Beichen Crowne Plaza Beijing Wangfujing Crowne Plaza Beijing Chaoyang U-Town Crowne Plaza Beijing Sun Palace Crowne Plaza Beijing Parkview Wuzhou Crowne Plaza Beijing Zhongguancun Crowne Plaza International Airport Beijing Holiday Inn Beijing Focus Square Holiday Inn Down Town Beijing Holiday Inn Central Plaza Beijing Holiday Inn Temple of Heaven Beijing Holiday Inn Beijing Deshengmen Holiday Inn Beijing Chang An West Holiday Inn Beijing Haidian Holiday Inn Express Beijing Temple of Heaven Holiday Inn Express Beijing Dongzhimen Holiday Inn Express Beijing Minzuyuan Holiday Inn Express Beijing Zhongguancun Holiday Inn Express Beijing Wangjing Holiday Inn Express Beijing Huacai Holiday Inn Express Beijing Shangdi Beijing About IHG InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) [LON:IHG, NYSE:IHG (ADRs)] is the world’s largest hotel group by number of rooms. IHG franchises, leases, manages or owns, through various subsidiaries, over 4,500 hotels and more than 650,000 guest rooms in 100 countries and territories around the world. The Group owns a portfolio of well recognised and respected hotel brands including InterContinental Hotels & Resorts, Hotel Indigo, Crowne Plaza Hotels & Resorts, Holiday Inn Hotels and Resorts, Holiday Inn Express, Staybridge Suites and Candlewood Suites and also manages the world’s largest hotel loyalty programme, Priority Club Rewards with 52 million members worldwide. IHG has 1,300 hotels in its development pipeline, which will create 160,000 jobs worldwide over the next few years. InterContinental Hotels Group PLC is the Group’s holding company and is incorporated in Great Britain and registered in England and Wales. IHG offers information and online reservations for all its hotel brands at www.ihg.com and information for the Priority Club Rewards programme at www.priorityclub.com. For the latest news from IHG, visit our online Press Office at www.ihg.com/media About IHG’s School Project with the China Youth Development Foundation The China Youth Development Foundation (CYDF) is a national non-profit and non-governmental organization founded in March 1989 in Beijing. The CYDF works to develop Chinese youth through education, science and technology, culture, physical education, health and environmental protection. The CYDF is best known for launching and managing its largest programme to date, “Project Hope” . Project Hope has sought to help school dropouts in poor remote regions return to school and complete at least an elementary education. By the end of 2009, Project Hope had raised over RMB 6 billion in donations, helped 3.5 million children from poverty-stricken rural families continue their schooling, built 16,355 Hope primary schools, presented the Hope mini-library series to 14,636 village schools in remote areas and trained over 60,000 village primary school teachers. As a result of consistent effort by staff and supporters alike, Project Hope has become one of the best-known and most successful charity programs in the country. In November 2007, IHG set up the IHG Project Hope Fund and became an official partner of the China Youth Development Foundation (CYDF). The transparently managed fund is dedicated to supporting young dropouts in poverty-stricken areas through Hope Schools, vocational education and scholarship for college/university students. As the first charity fund in China connecting hotels, guests and donors, it not only prolongs the mission of IHG to fulfill its corporate social responsibility, but also promotes the concept of social responsibility among a wider group of people. The creative approach of “donating RMB 5 upon check-in” provides hotel guests with easy opportunities to contribute to worthy causes. The programme has won great support from the nearly 150 IHG hotels in Chinese Mainland, Hong Kong and Macau. As of December 1st, 2010, RMB 6,582,229.38 has been collected for the IHG Project Hope Fund, and RMB 5,920,000 has been used or slated to be used. The 11 IHG Hope Schools in Hebei, Inner Mongolia, Guangdong, Sichuan, Shanxi, Gansu, Jiangsu, Anhui, Hubei and Shandong provinces have been built or are currently under construction, with four out of 11 officially in use. Other charity activities by IHG include donations to Hope Classmate for Earthquake Relief Sichuan, investment in vocational education and the IHG Academy Scholarship. CONTACT INFORMATION Feng WANG Marketing Communication Manager of Holiday Inn Beijing Focus Square Tel: 86 10 6473 3333 – 6909 Email: [email protected]
