Skift Travel Business Spoken Edition

When InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) announced on February 13 it would purchase luxury wellness hotel brand Six Senses for $300 million in cash from private equity firm Pegasus Capital Advisors, no one could have been happier about the deal than Six Senses CEO Neil Jacobs “We’re really excited about it,” Jacobs told Skift this week, primarily because of IHG’s strength in distribution and information technology, as well as development.