Transaction in Own Shares

InterContinental Hotels Group PLC
26 July 2004



Intercontinental Hotels Group plc:  Purchase of Own Shares


Intercontinental Hotels Group plc announces that on 23 July 2004 it purchased
for cancellation 500,000 of its ordinary shares at a price of 583.1730p per
share.


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