IHG One Rewards members have a restricted time to earn and use factors at one of the crucial in style resorts on the Las Vegas Strip.
IHG Inns & Resorts is ending its partnership with The Venetian Resort Las Vegas and The Palazzo at The Venetian Resort on the finish of 2024. The license settlement, which has been in place for almost 15 years, affiliated the 2 properties with IHG’s InterContinental Inns & Resorts model — that means it was additionally a good way for InterContinental Ambassador program members to deploy their complimentary weekend night time profit.
Although the partnership shall be no extra within the new yr, IHG One Rewards members can nonetheless earn factors on present bookings for stays by way of March 31, 2025. An IHG spokesperson notes the partnership is simply ending with Las Vegas properties and that friends can nonetheless ebook different alliance properties at gaming resorts like The Venetian Macao, The Parisian Macao and The Londoner Macao in China.
IHG leaders famous throughout an earnings name this week that the nixed partnership in Las Vegas means a discount of seven,092 lodge rooms — or 0.7% of the corporate’s whole room depend — from IHG’s general community. Nonetheless, the character of the partnership means the corporate is dropping a negligible quantity of income from The Venetian advanced in Las Vegas not being related to IHG.
Whereas particulars are sparse, one can not help however surprise if this presents a possibility for an IHG competitor like Hyatt to swoop in and turn into a brand new accomplice, particularly in gentle of Marriott’s new dominating partnership in Sin Metropolis with MGM Resorts, which simply this week introduced a brand new W Inns property slated for the Strip.
IHG management does not look like dropping a lot sleep over the deal winding down.
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“The legacy settlement is from 15 years in the past, and we (are) a really completely different firm from 15 years in the past,” IHG CEO Elie Maalouf stated on this week’s IHG third-quarter earnings name.
The corporate within the third quarter opened double the quantity of latest lodge rooms that it did throughout the identical time final yr. Additional, the corporate’s pipeline of lodge rooms in improvement all over the world is up 12% from final yr.
It seems there shall be greater than sufficient alternatives to earn and redeem IHG One Rewards factors all over the world — simply possibly not a lot on the Las Vegas Strip.
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