InterContinental Hotels & Resorts is all set to open its 150th hotel - the new-build, 500-room InterContinental Dubai Festival City in the UAE.

This milestone in November will be followed days later when the brand opens its first hotel in Vietnam - the 359-room InterContinental Hanoi Westlake. 

These two hotels join an impressive collection of new properties. In the last year (October 2006-September 2007), 11 new hotels in six countries have been opened, including flagships InterContinental Boston and InterContinental London Park Lane; the conversion of InterContinental Los Angeles Century City; two InterContinental hotels in Greater China - Shenzhen and Jiuzhai Paradise and Japan's first two co-branded ANA InterContinental properties - ANA InterContinental Tokyo and The Strings by InterContinental Tokyo.

Currently, InterContinental's pipeline consists of 50 hotels in more than 20 countries.- TradeArabia News Service