As an owner of a small or midsize business, you have enough to worry about without wondering if you’re getting the most out of your hotel stay on a business trip — or keeping up with hotel expenses for you and your employees when you return. Thankfully, there’s a better way to manage business travel with IHG Business Edge.
The program offers an array of perks for both business owners and their employees traveling for work, including automatic elite status and guaranteed room discounts. And with more than 5,800 participating properties around the world, you’re almost certain to find a hotel within its portfolio of 19 brands to rest your head at when you’re on a business trip.
Booking business travel just got easier with IHG Business Edge.
What is IHG Business Edge?
IHG Business Edge is a free-to-use corporate travel solution that allows exclusive access to benefits for small and midsize enterprises. When you enroll as a business owner, you’ll enjoy guaranteed discounts whenever you (or your employees) book a trip — whether it’s for personal or business purposes.
After you register your company with IHG Business Edge, you’ll use the same membership number for both work and leisure travel, avoiding the need to track balances in two different accounts. It also comes with automatic Silver Elite status after your first stay, unlocking benefits like 20% more bonus points.
Related: Confirmable suite upgrades, points and more: Your guide to IHG One Rewards’ Milestone Rewards
If you’re not the owner of the business, you can still register as a traveler for a company that is already enrolled. Doing so will also unlock Silver Elite status after your first stay.
How to register for IHG Business Edge
To register for IHG Business Edge, visit this page and enter your IHG One Rewards number. You’ll be asked for your role in the business, as well as if you’re registering your company for the first time, linking to an existing company or joining as a program administrator for a company that’s already registered.
You’ll need to have your own IHG One Rewards number (you can join here) before attempting to register for IHG Business Edge.
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Once you’ve submitted your registration, you’ll receive confirmation within five business days.
IHG Business Edge perks
There are plenty of reasons to make IHG Business Edge your company travel portal of choice, though in order to take advantage of the perks listed below, you need to book your travel in one of four ways:
- Online through the IHG Business Edge portal with your company’s rate code
- By phone
- On IHG.com
- Via the IHG One Rewards app with your unique company rate code
As long as you do that, here’s what you’ll enjoy as a member of IHG Business Edge.
Discounts on hotel rooms
When you book one of almost 6,000 participating IHG hotels through IHG Business Edge, you’ll receive a guaranteed hotel discount. This also extends to your employees when traveling for work — meaning their next expense reports may be smaller than usual.
You can then use that savings on more important things elsewhere in your business.
Automatic Silver Elite status
When booking a hotel room through IHG Business Edge as a registered traveler, you can enjoy an upgrade to IHG One Rewards Silver Elite status after just one stay.
IHG One Rewards Silver Elite status comes with a bevy of attractive perks, such as 20% bonus points on stays, complimentary internet and late checkout.
Customized online booking portal
The customized online booking portal is just one way that you can easily book travel for yourself or others. It’s also regularly updated with tailored content for members who access the portal.
But this is more than just a convenient way to reserve a hotel room.
IHG Business Edge’s portal serves as another tool in your business’ recordkeeping by showing you all of your company’s IHG hotel stays in one place. When it comes time to look at your savings and spending on hotels, you can easily pull up this information from the portal.
1 account for your rewards
As previously noted, small-business owners who join IHG Business Edge have a single membership number. This means that all the points you earn on leisure trips as well as the work trips you book for your employees post to that account, making it easy to use your rewards when planning a vacation.
Related: How to redeem points with the IHG One Rewards program
Bottom line
Free-to-join IHG Business Edge is a valuable tool for business travel thanks to guaranteed discounts, automatic Silver Elite status after one stay and a booking portal to track your stays and expenses.
Operating under one IHG One Rewards number means you get rewarded for your employees’ hotel stays as well as your own.
Signing up is easy and rewarding, so don’t wait — join today.
