IHG opens Even Hotels - A brand for health-conscious travelers

Aiming to gain control over the growing wellness-travel market - Intercontinental Hotels Group, IHG, has recently opened its first wellness-focused hotel brand Even Hotels at Norwalk, Connecticut.

This hotel comprises of a four-story building with 129 rooms, a ‘three-zone’ gym, social and dining areas, and a flexible public working area. The hotel is based on the idea to ease and promote wellbeing of humans. It concentrates on four fundamental areas namely rest comfy, eat healthy and well, work, and exercise.

The concept of this lifestyle brand was coined first in 2012 and is awaited to become a milestone in the IHG portfolio of favored brands. It has four more properties in pipeline out of which two hotels will be located in midtown Manhattan and one property each in Brooklyn, New York and Rockville, Maryland.

Kirk Kinsell, President of IHG, said he is very happy to launch the first Even Hotels property in Norwalk. This hotel will provide exquisite service to our esteem customers. It was really a milestone for IHG. We are planning to open another Hotel in Rockville, Maryland soon.

He further said it is difficult for the traveling people to take care of their health on the go. Even Hotels possesses the tools and provide enough support to make the travelers life healthier at accessible price. The hotel is carefully created and the service is exclusively tailored to satisfy the customers need. We continue to improve our services in order to make travelers feel good and maintain their wellbeing.

Some Key elements of this hotel property include:

• Cork & Kale Market & Bar serving fresh and healthy food items. It will also serve a vast selection of grab-and-go food items with a label mentioning nutritional value.
• Eco-friendly and natural components like wood surfaces, vivaria all around the hotel and natural fragrances. At the time of check-in guests will be welcomed with perfumed hand towel and instilled filtered water.
• Rooms that are sleep-induced using mood lighting, linens made of natural eucalyptus and all-natural bath products.
• In-room training zone, yoga and spin classes, varied fitness alternatives and a ‘three-zone’ gym.

Its second property is due to open by the month end at Rockville, Maryland. Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., Portland, San Francisco, Seattle, Denver, and Chicago are few of the destinations where it plans to launch more such hotels.