The Holiday Inn, Colombo, is now a Ramada property.
I noticed this when I was shopping for an overnight place to stay in Colombo next month while wife and I wait for a train to the tea or hill country part of Sri Lanka.
I stayed there twice before. It wasn't bad in the sense that I liked the staff and the restaurant a lot. However, the rooms were (six months ago), not up to what I would consider to be IHG's standards at any level. Probably hits the Ramada sweet spot
I put it to the wife: $63 for the newly-branded Ramada or $88 for the Hilton?
She said "Hilton"
Having seen how nice the Colombo Hilton is, I would have booked it regardless
Being dropped by IHG is not necessarily a bad thing. One year ago, we stayed at the Kunching Crown Plaza (Malaysia) one month after it was no longer a Crown Plaza, and we had a great stay at a bargain rate. In this case, the Kunching Hilton, was NOT worth the much higher price.