It is the seventh Inter-Continental hotel stemming from a commercial agreement between Bass Hotels & Resorts and Grupo Real. 
 

The new 240-room, 15-story Hotel Inter-Continental Guatemala is located in the heart of the renowned �Zona Viva�, the business, shopping, and entertainment center of Guatemala City, 10 minutes away from the La Aurora International Airport.  The property is Bass Hotels & Resorts� 13th overall property in Central America, which includes hotels under the Inter-Continental, and Holiday Inn

Hotel Inter-Continental Guatemala 14 Calle 2-51 Zona 10 Guatemala City Guatemala

umbrella. The company�s first Crowne Plaza, which will be Central America�s 14th Bass Hotels & Resorts property, is scheduled to open in December, 2000, in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. 

The Hotel Inter-Continental Guatemala will be the centerpiece of the multi-use complex, which includes an office tower housing national and international corporations, as well as retail and entertainment. 

The Hotel Inter-Continental Guatemala features one Presidential suite, six Junior suites, 23 business rooms and six rooms for guests with disabilities, along with two Club Inter-Continental floors with private concierge lounge. 

Technologically, the property offers dataports in all rooms, voice mail, direct international lines, and internet access.

Also featured are a fully equipped business center with a private meeting room, multi-lingual staff, secretarial services, translations, copy and fax machines, cellular phone rentals and audio-visual equipment. The business center also includes a meeting room specially designed for video-conferencing. 

The hotel has 16 modern banquet and conference rooms totaling 1,600 square meters, with availability to accommodate from 10 to 1000 people, as well as 1,000 square meters of commercial retail space.

As to dining, the hotel features Le Café de la Paix, the traditional French brasserie founded in Paris in 1862 at the Le Grand Hotel Inter-Continental. It is the renowned restaurant�s first franchise outside of France. The Hotel also has a bar and a boulangerie-patisserie. 

�We are very excited to open a such a fine hotel in Guatemala,� says Sweetwood. �With this hotel, we will now have at least one property in every major financial center in Central America, clearly positioning us as the leading international hotel company in the region.� 

�This property will rapidly become a landmark in the city,� adds Poma. �Its location and its architecture are exceptional, clearly establishing it as the city�s most luxurious hotel.�

�The opening of the Inter-Continental Guatemala further strengthens our leadership position in Latin America,� concludes Alvaro Diago, Area President Latin America, Bass Hotels & Resorts. �We now have more hotels, across more brands, than any other hotel company in the continent.� 

Bass Hotels & Resorts® the hotel business of Bass PLC of the United Kingdom, operates or franchises more than 3,000 hotels and 490,000 guest rooms in 100 countries and territories.