Stuart Ford
Senior Vice President, Head of Investor Relations
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InterContinental Hotels Group PLC (LSE: IHG) Q1 2026 earnings conference call, held 2026-05-07. Replay captured from the company's public earnings webcast.

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WEBVTT 00:00:00.031 -- 00:00:04.939 Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to Intercontinental Hotels Group PLC 00:00:04.939 -- 00:00:08.064 Q1 Trading Update Conference call. 00:00:08.064 -- 00:00:11.810 At this time, all participants are in listen-only mode. 00:00:11.810 -- 00:00:15.576 Later, we will conduct a question and answer session through the phone lines, and instructions 00:00:15.576 -- 00:00:17.860 will follow at that time. 00:00:17.860 -- 00:00:20.384 I would like to remind all participants that this call is being recorded. 00:00:20.384 -- 00:00:24.571 I will now hand over to Stuart Ford of IHG Hotel and Resorts. 00:00:24.571 -- 00:00:26.952 Please go ahead. 00:00:27.082 -- 00:00:30.086 Thank you, Gavin. And good morning, everyone from me. 00:00:30.086 -- 00:00:35.492 As Kevin said, welcome to IHG Hotel and Resort conference call covering 00:00:35.492 -- 00:00:40.178 the 2026 first quarter trading update. So I'm Stuart Ford, Senior Vice President, the 00:00:40.178 -- 00:00:44.824 Head of Investor Relations at IHG. And I'm joined this morning by Ellie Maloof, our Chief 00:00:44.824 -- 00:00:49.475 Executive Officer, and by Michael Glover, our Chief Financial Officer. 00:00:49.475 -- 00:00:54.702 Just to remind listeners on the call that in discussion today, the company may make 00:00:54.702 -- 00:00:58.367 certain forward-looking statements as defined on the US law. 00:00:58.367 -- 00:01:02.653 Please refer to this morning's announcement and the company's SEC filing for factors 00:01:02.653 -- 00:01:07.059 that could lead actual results to differ materially from those expressed in or implied 00:01:07.059 -- 00:01:11.885 by any such forward-looking statement. For those analysts or institutional investors 00:01:11.885 -- 00:01:16.405 who are listen...