<Tr> <Th> Parent </Th> <Td> InterContinental Hotels Group </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Website </Th> <Td> Crowne Plaza </Td> </Tr> <P> Crowne Plaza is a multinational chain of full service, upscale hotels headquartered in the United Kingdom . It is catering to business travelers and to the meetings and conventions market . It forms part of the InterContinental Hotels Group family of brands, which include InterContinental Hotels & Resorts and Holiday Inn Hotels & Resorts, and operates in 52 countries with more than 400 hotels, usually located in city centers, resorts, coastal towns or near major airports . </P> <P> Originally branded as "Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza", the first United States Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza Hotel was opened in Rockville, Maryland, in 1983 . Within a couple of years the brand was spun off as an independent chain (still owned at the time by Holiday Inn). The first Crowne Plaza Resort opened in Madeira, Portugal, in 1999 . </P>

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