CROWNE PLAZA HOTEL OFFERS FREE WIFI

Crowne Plaza Hotels & Resorts next year will begin offering free Wi-Fi access to all guests, according to Gina LaBarre, InterContinental Hotels Group vice president of Americas brand management for upscale brands. LaBarre discussed the development with Business Travel News here this week in Las Vegas at IHG's investors and leadership conference. Free Internet access will be part of a "connectivity bundle" Crowne Plaza will introduce sometime next year as a part of a larger ongoing brandwide overhaul. Beginning next year, IHG will offer free Internet at all properties for any Priority Club member, regardless of status, but Crowne Plaza's offer will go "above and beyond the IHG standard" because it will available to all guests, whether they are Priority Club members or not, LaBarre said.