
The hotel group signed a partnership with Sierra Hotel Management Ltd to develop five properties in the country, the first of which will open in 2016.
Holiday Inn Express Karlsruhe City Park will be a new-build property with 115 rooms. Located in the city of Karlsruhe it has good connections to Frankfurt, Munich and Paris. The property will also have meeting rooms and parking available to its guests.
The Holiday Inn family is pursuing growth on the European continent, where it already has 221 Holiday Inn Express properties and 39 others under development. With 439,174 rooms in 3,474 hotels on January 1, 2014, the Holiday Inn family is the number one global hotel chain according to the ranking of hotel chains by number of rooms produced each year by MKG Hospitality, consulting firm founded by Georges Panayotis in 1985.
