{"id":4852,"date":"2016-06-26T10:48:52","date_gmt":"2016-06-26T07:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tourism.plus4d.com\/2016\/06\/26\/sanzar-and-ihg-extend-partnership-for-2016-18-seasons\/"},"modified":"2016-06-26T10:48:52","modified_gmt":"2016-06-26T07:48:52","slug":"sanzar-and-ihg-extend-partnership-for-2016-18-seasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/?p=4852","title":{"rendered":"SANZAR AND IHG extend partnership for 2016-18 seasons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">SANZAR (South Africa, New Zealand and Australia Rugby)&nbsp;and InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) have extended their partnership for three more years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">As part of the agreement, IHG is the Exclusive Hotel Partner throughout Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and Japan during Super Rugby and The Rugby Championship for&nbsp;the 2016-18 seasons.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">WTTEN<\/span>-The continuation of this contract covers all IHG hotels in Australia and New Zealand, primarily Crowne Plaza hotels and resorts, as well as InterContinental Singapore and InterContinental Tokyo.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Karin Sheppard, chief operating officer, Australasia, Japan and Korea &amp; Asia, Middle East and Africa (AMEA) franchising, IHG said: \u201cWe are thrilled to open our doors to the prestigious SANZAR squads once again as the exclusive hotel partner of Super Rugby and The Rugby Championship.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cWe are extremely supportive of these elite global competitions and look forward to welcoming the teams to our hotels across the region to experience the very best in hospitality.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Brendan Morris, SANZAR interim CEO added: \u201cWe are delighted to re-affirm our commitment to IHG as SANZAR\u2019s exclusive hotel provider throughout Australasia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cOver the past three years, IHG\u2019s dedicated teams throughout all of their first-class properties have done everything possible to look after the needs of our players and support personnel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cIn what is one of the most travel-intensive competitions in world sport, it\u2019s vital that comfort and high performance needs are met with seamless ease and we look forward to another three years working with the attentive and highly-experienced team at IHG.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SANZAR (South Africa, New Zealand and Australia Rugby)&nbsp;and InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) have extended their partnership for three more years. As part of the agreement, IHG is the Exclusive Hotel Partner throughout Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and Japan during Super Rugby and The Rugby Championship for&nbsp;the 2016-18 seasons. WTTEN-The continuation of this contract covers all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category----hospitality-hotels-restaurants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}