About the programme

Welcome to the InterContinental Asia Pacific Specialist Programme

We invite you to take up this educational programme and learn more about a truly global hotel brand. By completing the five courses in this programme, you will have the knowledge and increased confidence in your abilities to sell to your upscale and travel-savvy clients, authentically luxurious hotel experiences in one of the world’s most intriguing destinations – Asia Pacific.

Through this programme, you can be an expert in a region with vast sales potential, while creating satisfaction and thus, loyalty, among an extremely profitable segment of clients, the affluent traveller. Once they have experienced an Asia Pacific destination from the vantage point of one of our InterContinental properties, we are confident that they will return to our brand, again and again. This is a winning proposition for us, your clients and you, our travel partner.

Upon completion of the course, you will get a chance to win exciting travel packages that will allow you to “live an Intercontinental life” yourself. So, start studying now, and you will soon be stepping onto the first rung of learning about the Asia Pacific region, and helping your clients gain those experiences.

How to use the training programme

The training programme consists of five courses, which correspond to spreads in the InterContinental Hotels & Resorts Asia Pacific supplement.

Click here to download the InterContinental Hotels & Resorts Asia Pacific supplement as a .pdf

The courses

You must complete all five courses with a pass mark of 80% or above to complete the training programme and qualify for the prize draw. Random prize drawings among participating graduates will give you opportunities to win:

  • - A three-night stay for two in a Deluxe Room at any InterContinental Asia Pacific hotel, awarded quarterly (four in all)
  • - One Grand Prize of three nights in a Deluxe Room for two at any InterContinental hotel in Asia Pacific – plus economy air tickets for two

Please read the full terms and conditions.

In addition, for each course that you complete you will be able to print off an InterContinental Asia Pacific Specialist certificate for display in your office, instilling customer confidence in you.

Each course begins with a short slideshow, which is followed by a test consisting of 20 multiple-choice questions. You can find all the answers in the InterContinental Hotels & Resorts Asia Pacific supplement.

Get eight out of 10 questions right and you pass the test and can move on to the next. If you don't pass first time, don't worry - you can keep retaking the test until you do.