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InterContinental Tampa Hits Home Run with Spring Training Package
Baseball Fan Package Available from Mar.1-Apr.4, 2010
InterContinental Tampa Hits Home Run with Spring Training Package
WHO: InterContinental Tampa is centrally located in the heart of Tampa Bay offering guests the most convenient access to world-class shopping, dining, entertainment, sports and the area’s most memorable attractions, including George Steinbrenner ( Legends) Field.
WHAT: Visitors can score big by sliding into InterContinental Tampa’s Spring Training package. The package includes:
• 25 percent discount off the best available rate for deluxe accommodations – rates begin at just $142 per night
• Fan Tool Kit, complete with a team-specific chocolate amenity, baseball for signing, Cracker Jacks, peanuts, popcorn, Bazooka gum, soda, and the lyrics and history of the song, “Take Me Out to the Ballgame.”
WHEN: Mar.1-Apr.4, 2010
WHY: InterContinental Tampa has the home field advantage, being conveniently located to all the fan-favorites including the World Champion New York Yankees, Philadelphia Phillies and the Toronto Blue Jays.
WHERE: InterContinental Tampa - convenient to downtown Tampa and Tampa International Airport - is the ultimate baseball fan getaway, with a rooftop pool offering spectacular views of the bay and city; a state-of-the-art fitness center; and outstanding on-site dining at the world-famous Shula’s Steak House. InterContinental Tampa surrounds guests in contemporary comfort and offers personalized service from a gracious and friendly staff in a warm, distinctive atmosphere. The InterContinental Tampa’s award-winning “In the Know” concierge directs guests to popular Tampa Bay destinations, as well as local hideaways.
HOW: To reserve the Spring Training package at InterContinental Tampa, please call (866) 402-0758 and mention rate code ILQGA or visit www.intercontampa.com. Please mention favorite baseball team at the time of reservation.
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INTERCONTINENTAL TAMPA is one of more than 30 independent, upscale hotels, resorts and conference centers by Destination Hotels & Resorts, the fourth largest independent hospitality management company in the country. To protect and preserve the unique communities in which the company operates, Destination launched Destination Earth, an environmental sustainability program in 2008. New for 2009 is the 582-room Terranea Resort situated on the Palos Verdes Peninsula in southern California. The 102-acre ocean front resort will feature a 25,000-square-foot destination spa, three swimming pools, three restaurants and a Todd Eckenrode-designed par three golf course. In addition to Terranea in the greater Los Angeles area, Destination operates properties in key metropolitan areas and resort markets including Washington, D.C., Denver, San Diego, Santa Fe, Aspen, Palm Springs, Houston and Lake Tahoe. Destination is a subsidiary of Los Angeles-based investment, development and management firm Lowe Enterprises. For more information on the properties in the Destination Hotels & Resorts collection, please visit www.destinationhotels.com.
The 323-room hotel is owned by an affiliate of Lowe Enterprises Investments and is managed by the wholly owned Lowe subsidiary Destination Hotels & Resorts.
InterContinental Hotels Group PLC (IHG) of the United Kingdom [LON:IHG, NYSE:IHG (ADRs)] is the world's largest hotel group by number of rooms. IHG owns, manages, leases or franchises, through various subsidiaries, over 3,700 hotels and more than 558,000 guest rooms in nearly 100 countries and territories around the world. IHG owns a portfolio of well recognised and respected hotel brands including InterContinental® Hotels & Resorts, Crowne Plaza® Hotels & Resorts, Holiday Inn® Hotels and Resorts, Holiday Inn Express®, Staybridge Suites®, Candlewood Suites® and Hotel Indigo®, and also manages the world's largest hotel loyalty programme, Priority Club® Rewards with over 31 million members worldwide.
The company pioneered the travel industry’s first collaborative response to environmental issues as founder of the International Hotels and Environment Initiative (IHEI). The IHEI formed the foundations of the Tourism Partnership launched by the International Business Leaders Forum in 2004, of which IHG is still a member today. The environment and local communities remain at the heart of IHG’s global corporate responsibility focus.
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
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