Hotels
Holiday Inn Express franchise
Upper-midscale hotel brand focused on essential amenities and complimentary breakfast.
- Worldwide locations
- 3,335
Worldwide operating hotels; June 30, 2026; all reported operating models
Locations
Existing locations do not establish that a new territory is available. Confirm your market with the franchisor.
Sources and figure notes
Reporting periods and scope
Worldwide locations
3,335 operating Holiday Inn Express hotels worldwide as of June 30, 2026, across all reported operating models. This is the source-defined worldwide operating hotel system as of June 30, 2026, published August 11, 2026. The table separately includes franchised, managed, and owned or leased columns. Hotel totals are explicit source rows, not derived from room counts, comparable RevPAR samples, pipeline, signed agreements or parent totals. Regional components validate the stated global row only; Americas is not U.S.-only. No exact U.S. count, current owner identity, annual property revenue or financial metric is inferred. All prior entries and typed U.S. fields remain unchanged.
- Holiday Inn Express — IHG Development ↗
- Holiday Inn Express global row: total hotels, not rooms ↗
- Operating system table header and hotel versus room columns ↗
- Official results landing publication date ↗
- Pipeline is not yet opened ↗
- Holiday Inn Express separate pipeline row, excluded ↗
- Holiday Inn Express official brand page: open hotels versus pipeline ↗
Research snapshot: . Sources and methodology
Compare independent startup vs. franchise economics
Compare Holiday Inn Express’s franchise model against starting or buying an independent business in hotels (line-item CapEx, 0%-royalty owner SDE margins & SBA resale multiples):