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Retirement benefits - Additional Information (Detail) £ in Millions, $ in Millions | 12 Months Ended |
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Dec. 31, 2020 USD ($) | Dec. 31, 2019 USD ($) | Dec. 31, 2018 USD ($) | Dec. 31, 2020 GBP (£)
Disclosure of defined benefit plans [line items] |  |  |  |
Expected company payments | $ 6.0 |  |  |
Remeasurement gain and loss in other comprehensive income | $ (7.0) | $ (6.0) | $ 8.0 |
Exceptional items [member] |  |  |  |
Disclosure of defined benefit plans [line items] |  |  |  |
Settlement loss including transaction costs |  |  | 15.0 |
Banner Life Insurance Company [member] |  |  |  |
Disclosure of defined benefit plans [line items] |  |  |  |
Purchase of annuity insurance |  |  | 124.0 |
Actuarial assumption of expected rates of mortality [Member] |  |  |  |
Disclosure of defined benefit plans [line items] |  |  |  |
Mortality - per annum long term trend | 1.25% |  |  |
Description of mortality assumptions | Mortality is the most significant demographic assumption. The current assumptions for the UK are based on the S3PA ‘light’ year of birth tables with projected mortality improvements using the CMI_2019 model and a 1.25% per annum long-term trend and a smoothing parameter (‘s-kappa’) with weightings of 95% and 82% for pensioners and 98% and 81% for non-pensioners, male and female respectively. In the US, the current assumptions use rates from the Pri-2012 Mortality Study and Generationally Projected with Scale MP-2020 mortality tables. |  |  |
Inter-Continental hotels pension plan [member] |  |  |  |
Disclosure of defined benefit plans [line items] |  |  |  |
Contribution transferred |  |  | 20.0 |
Funding contribution refund |  |  | 1.5 |
Inter-Continental hotels pension plan [member] | Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation [member] |  |  |  |
Disclosure of defined benefit plans [line items] |  |  |  |
Contribution transferred |  |  | 6.0 |
Retirement benefit assets [member] |  |  |  |
Disclosure of defined benefit plans [line items] |  |  |  |
Funding contribution |  |  | 12.0 |
Remeasurement gain and loss in other comprehensive income |  |  | $ 12.0 |
Other Overseas Pension Plans [member] |  |  |  |
Disclosure of defined benefit plans [line items] |  |  |  |
Description of retirement benefit plan | The Group also operates a number of smaller pension schemes outside the UK, the most significant of which is a defined contribution scheme in the US; there is no material difference between the pension costs of, and contributions to, these schemes. |  |  |
Pensioners male [member] |  |  |  |
Disclosure of defined benefit plans [line items] |  |  |  |
Actuarial assumption of mortality rates | 0.95 |  |  | 0.95
Pensioners female [member] |  |  |  |
Disclosure of defined benefit plans [line items] |  |  |  |
Actuarial assumption of mortality rates | 0.82 |  |  | 0.82
Non-pensioners male [member] |  |  |  |
Disclosure of defined benefit plans [line items] |  |  |  |
Actuarial assumption of mortality rates | 0.98 |  |  | 0.98
Non-pensioners female [member] |  |  |  |
Disclosure of defined benefit plans [line items] |  |  |  |
Actuarial assumption of mortality rates | 0.81 |  |  | 0.81
United Kingdom [member] |  |  |  |
Disclosure of defined benefit plans [line items] |  |  |  |
Description of retirement benefit plan | <div style="font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><div style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;;display:inline;">Since 6 August 2014, UK retirement and death in service benefits are provided for eligible employees by the IHG UK Defined Contribution Pension Plan. Members, including those who have been auto-enrolled since 1 September 2013, are provided with defined contribution arrangements under this plan; benefits are based on each individual member’s personal account. The plan is HM Revenue <div style="letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;;display:inline;">&</div> Customs registered and governed by an independent trustee, assisted by professional advisers as and when required. The overall operation of the plan is subject to the oversight of The Pensions Regulator. </div></div> <div style="font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">The former defined benefit plan, the InterContinental Hotels UK Pension Plan, was wound up on 21 July 2015 following the completion of the <div style="white-space: nowrap; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;;display:inline;">buy-out</div> and transfer of the defined benefit obligations to Rothesay Life on 31 October 2014. </div> <div style="font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><div style="display:inline;">Residual defined benefit obligations remain in respect of additional benefits provided to members of an unfunded pension arrangement (‘UK plan’) who were affected by lifetime or annual allowances under the former defined benefit arrangements. Accrual under this arrangement ceased with effect from 1 July 2013 and a <div style="white-space: nowrap; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;;display:inline;">cash-out</div> offer in 2014 resulted in the extinguishment of </div>approximately 70% <div style="display:inline;"><div style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;;display:inline;">of the unfunded pension obligations. The Group meets the benefit payment obligations of the remaining members as they fall due. A charge over certain ring-fenced bank accounts totalling </div></div>$43m (£31m) at 31 December 2020 (see note 17) is currently held as security on behalf of the remaining members. </div> <table border="0" style="width:100%; table-layout:fixed;" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td></td></tr></table> |  |  |
Explanation of changes in description of retirement benefit plan | The former defined benefit plan, the InterContinental Hotels UK Pension Plan, was wound up on 21 July 2015 following the completion of the <div style="white-space: nowrap; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;;display:inline;">buy-out</div> and transfer of the defined benefit obligations to Rothesay Life on 31 October 2014.<table border="0" style="width:100%; table-layout:fixed;" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td></td></tr></table> |  |  |
Approximate extinguishment of the unfunded pension obligations | 70.00% |  |  |
Bank accounts pledged as security | $ 43.0 |  |  | £ 31

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