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IHG One Rewards

IHG's program relaunched in 2022, with milestone rewards and a Reward Night model spanning economy to luxury brands.

IHG One Rewards is the loyalty program of IHG Hotels and Resorts, relaunched in 2022 from IHG Rewards Club. Members earn IHG One Rewards points on stays across IHG's brand range and on co-brand cards, then redeem them for Reward Nights. The 2022 redesign added milestone rewards and a five-tier ladder from Club to Diamond Elite.

IHG One Rewards IHG Hotels & Resorts United Kingdom
Operator
IHG Hotels & Resorts ↗
Headquarters
United Kingdom
Program currency
IHG One Rewards points ↗
Relaunched
2022, from IHG Rewards Club
Earning model
Spend-based points; Reward Nights; milestone rewards; fourth-night-free on points
Footprint
Multi-brand global portfolio, economy to luxury

IHG One Rewards relaunched in 2022, replacing IHG Rewards Club. Members earn points on stays across a brand range from Holiday Inn Express to Six Senses and InterContinental, plus co-brand cards, then redeem for Reward Nights. The redesign introduced a five-tier ladder, Club, Silver, Gold, Platinum, and Diamond Elite, and a set of milestone rewards that pay out bonuses as members accumulate qualifying nights through the year. A fourth-night-free benefit on points redemptions rewards longer stays.

The structural innovation worth studying is milestone rewards. Traditional tier programs concentrate their payoff at status thresholds, which leaves the large middle of the base with little reason to keep engaging once the next tier looks out of reach. Milestone bonuses spread rewards across the accumulation curve, starting at twenty nights and repeating every ten nights to one hundred, regardless of final tier. The operator lesson is that rewarding cumulative progress, not only threshold crossings, re-engages mid-tier members and smooths the classic drop-off between enrollment and elite status.

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