Crowne Plaza Belgrade

Crowne Plaza Belgrade
The hotel in August 2009
Location within Belgrade
Former names	Hotel Beograd InterContinental (1979–2006) Hotel International CG (2006–2007) Continental Hotel Belgrade (2007–2012)
Hotel chain	Crowne Plaza
General information
Location	New Belgrade, Serbia
Address	Vladimira Popovića Street 10 Belgrade 11000
Coordinates	44°48′34″N 20°26′02″E / 44.80944°N 20.43389°E / 44.80944; 20.43389
Opening	October 1979; 45 years ago (1979-10)
Renovated	2003, 2012–2013
Owner	Delta Holding
Management	Delta Holding
Design and construction
Architect(s)	Stojan Maksimović
Other information
Number of rooms	387
Number of suites	29
Number of restaurants	2

Crowne Plaza Belgrade is a four-star hotel located in New Belgrade, Serbia. With its 387 rooms and 29 suites, it is the biggest hotel in the city in terms of capacity.

Opened in 1979 after being built with state funds provided through the Generaleksport (Genex) foreign trade company led at the time by the state-appointed CEO Miki Savićević [sr], the hotel originally operated as Hotel Beograd InterContinental, part of the InterContinental chain.

As Genex fell on hard times throughout the 1990s^[1] and especially in the 2000s, it failed to honour the hotel's franchising terms, which led to the loss of the franchising license in 2006.^{[citation needed]}

Afterwards, the hotel re-branded as Hotel International CG for a brief period followed by Continental Hotel Belgrade, in both instances without a foreign brand affiliation, before getting sold to Miroslav Mišković's Delta Holding conglomerate in 2008. Mišković kept the existing setup until striking a deal with InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) about using their Crowne Plaza brand. The hotel closed in July 2012 to undergo a major renovation effort before re-opening as Crowne Plaza in December 2013.