Originally Posted by
Camflyer
The biggest problem with this merger would be getting it through the competition authorities as it would make them the biggest hotel chain in the world in terms of properties so it is inevitable some would have to be sold off. There would also have to be a rationalisation of the brands as they would have far too many of them.
Don't know about Accor but IHG actually owns very, very few of the hotels that are part of the brand
From the 2019 annual report
https://www.ihgplc.com/investors/annual-report
franchised - 4870 hotels / 614,974 room
managed by IHG - 1007 hotels / 262,253 rooms
owned and leased 26 hotels / 6,336 rooms =
0.0044% of hotels and 0.007% of rooms
The loss of the 103 of the SVC hotels was less than .017% of all hotels