Holiday Inn

Holiday Inn was originally started in 1952 by Kemmons Wilson. Since those humble times, Holiday Inn has grown exponentially to establish itself as one of the leading hotel chains in the United States and the world.

Five years after its establishment, Holiday Inn officially became a franchise under Wilson's leadership, leading to a massive explosion of growth of the hotel across the country. By 1972, Holiday Inn had approximately 1,400 outposts in the United States. In the 1980s, Holiday Inn's dominance began to lose some steam, but still was profitable. This led the United Kingdom-based Bass to purchase Holiday Inn in 1988. By 2003, the InterContinental Hotels Group was formed to run Bass' hotel operations, including Holiday Inn, Embassy Suites, and Crowne Plaza among others. Currently, Holiday Inns come in many fashions and levels of service, including Holiday Inn Garden Courts (non-US hotels), the original Holiday Inn with two variations, their Hotel/Suites and Resort brands, Holiday Inn Select (which halted operations in 2006), Holiday Inn Sunspree Resorts, and Nickelodeon Family Suites, a standalone brand in Orlando, Florida.

IHG also runs Holiday Inn Express, a mid-level unit of the hotelier, known for its quirky commercials featuring people who show amazing intelligence and knowledge they didn't have before staying at one of these hotels.

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• The Yule Tide Marathon – Holiday Inn (1942)

  
  gmanReviews — Authority: 131
  After being a performer for so long and being fed up with his hectic schedule Jim Hardy [ Bing Crosby ] decides to retire and live the rest of his life on a farm.  After that fails to live up to his expectations he decides to turn it into a special kind of club, The Holiday Inn, where people can come on each public ...
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• Holiday Inn 1942 Hollywood Movie Watch Online

  
  Bollywood Hungama — Authority: 147
  Director : Mark SandrichRelease Date : 4 April 1943Genre : Comedy, Drama, Musical, RomanceCast : Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Marjorie Reynolds, Virginia Dale, Walter Abel, Louise Beavers, Irving Bacon, Marek Windheim
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• You’ve Got a Friend & Family Hotel Rate at IHG

  
  Loyalty Traveler — Authority: 426
  Friends & Family rates are a common topic of discussion in 2009. These rates are something that I don’t recall being offered to the general public in the past. This year these rates have been offered repeatedly and discussed on FlyerTalk threads by InterContinental Hotels Group (Holiday Inn, ...
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• WHITE CHRISTMAS & SECULAR VISIONS

  
  The Electric Egg Cream — Authority: 124
  Many people have been “dreaming” of a White Christmas ever since they heard the song for the first time. Composed by Irving Berlin for the film HOLIDAY INN (1940), the lyrics (via the dulcet crooning of Bing Crosby ) convey a snowbound, will-o’-the-wisp setting Where the treetops glisten/ and children ...
  4 days ago

• Boynton Beach – Holiday Inn

  
  Paranormalknowledge.com — Authority: 133
  photo taken from go-florida-vacation.comThere is a Holiday Inn located in Boynton Beach, Florida on Congress Avenue that is famous for something other than its continental breakfast. In fact, this inn is believed to be haunted by numerous spirits.The apparitions of these spirits have been most often seen walking ...
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• Smart Enough to Make the Holiday Season Truly Memorable at Holiday Inn Century City Chengdu

  
  Xianzai.com China Information — Authority: 133
    There is nothing to be missed at this holiday season. Stay with Holiday Inn Century City Chengdu to have a memorable holiday celebration with your loved ones and family. ...
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• Smart Enough to Make the Holiday Season Truly Memorable at Holiday Inn Century City Chengdu

  
  Xianzai.com China Information — Authority: 133
    There is nothing to be missed at this holiday season. Stay with Holiday Inn Century City Chengdu to have a memorable holiday celebration with your loved ones and family. ...
  5 days ago

• Ten Christmas Movies You Shouldn’t Miss

  
  Poptimal.com — Authority: 486
  A Christmas Story If you out there grumbling that EVERYONE has all ready seen all these movies, I think you will be surprised to know you are wrong. I’m constantly astonished that these films, which I consider staples of the holiday season, are missing from people’s homes, memories, and experiences. I’m going ...
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• Surprise! The War on Christmas Goes Back 67 years to Bing Crosby

  
  Irregular Times: News Unfit for Print — Authority: 536
  Over the past five years, it’s become fashionable among fundamentalist Christians to complain in December that the “War on Christmas” has “stolen” their holiday. Why, people are saying “Happy Holidays” to one another! Isn’t that awful? Kentucky Post : I think it’s wonderful! This year we need ...
  6 days ago

• Movie Monday - A Stocking Full of Christmas Films

  
  Caffeinated Joe — Authority: 117
  Lots more holiday viewing this week: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Holiday Inn (1942) [Bing Crosby; Fred Astaire; Marjorie Reynolds; Virginia Dale; Walter Abel; Louise Beavers] Plot: Tired of the bright lights of showbiz, Jim Hardy retires to the countryside to become a farmer. He converts the farm into the Holiday ...
  1 week ago

• 25 Greatest Christmas Films: #6 — ‘Holiday Inn’ (1942)

  
  Big Hollywood — Authority: 751
  Holiday Inn isn’t just one of the all-time great Christmas films, it’s also one of the all-time great movie musicals. With an astonishingly good score, even for Irving Berlin, and the perfect star combination of the affable Bing Crosby and perfectionist Fred Astaire, Holiday Inn conjures up the simplest of ...
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• Christmas Song of the Day

  
  Musing Minds — Authority: 128
  White Christmas (The Incomparable Bing Crosby – from Holiday Inn) Click here to view the embedded video. I’m dreaming of a white Christmas Just like the ones I used to know Where the treetops glisten, and children listen To hear sleigh bells in the snow I’m dreaming of a white Christmas With every ...
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• Please, no hockey sticks in the hotel

  
  Duluth Daily Photo — Authority: 127
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• Maldives welcomes first Holiday Inn resort

  
  eTurboNews - Travel and Tourism Industry News — Authority: 527
  The first Holiday Inn resort in the Maldives opened today in Kandooma Island on the South Malé atoll. read more
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• Where “Holiday” Brings Meaning to Hotels Stays in Redding

  
  California Beaches Blog — Authority: 148
  According to Karen Whitaker of the Shasta Cascade Wonderland Association, Redding Holiday Inn is busy this holiday showcasing renovations, and  in its effort to go the extra mile, the hotel will continue to make improvements to the front desk and lobby area, as well as to its onsite restaurant, The Braided Mane. For ...
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• My 10 Favorite Holiday Movies

  
  The HeldenFiles Online — Authority: 128
  Ive been looking over a bunch of best-Christmas-movie lists (and some of the worst) and its difficult to add much to the discussion. While the specific order may vary, there is a considerable consensus about titles that belong on such a top-movie list. Still, I thought I would post mine if only because the top movie ...
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• Hotels Play Up Environmental Initiatives

  
  Environmental Leader — Authority: 624
  More and more, hotels are chasing the consumer dollar by playing up their environmental initiatives. For instance, Starwood’s Element Hotels is adding electric car-charging stations, while Holiday Inn is on track to add its first LEED-certified hotel.Element Hotels, a seven-location division of Starwood Hotels, is ...
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• Favorite Christmas Music Meme

  
  Another Old Movie Blog — Authority: 115
  Having been tagged by J. C. Loophole over at The Shelf (and bearing the angry red dodgeball welts on my forehead) to partake of a little favorite Christmas musical performances meme , mine are as follows: When it comes to Christmas music in general, I’m partial to any performance, TV, CD, in person or otherwise by ...
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• 20 percent off prepay special for Holiday Inn Main Gate East

  
  Orlando Florida — Authority: 128
  In honor of the re-launching of the Holiday Inn Main Gate East in Kissimmee, FL—just minutes away from the main gate of Walt Disney World—guests at the Holiday Inn Main Gate East can get a 20 percent discount on their hotel room stay price if they book their reservation for three nights or more and prepay for ...
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• Holiday Inn Movie

  
  J Breaking News — Authority: 156
  Do you want the trailer of the Holiday Inn Movie! Read an article first from blogs.suntimes.com: "Holiday Inn" (9:45 p.m., AMC) Bing Crosby. An entertainers country inn is open only on special occasions Watch the trailer of this story at the URL below, just copy and paste the URL below to to your address bar ...
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