“A hundred-percent record held for years is a system, not a campaign.”— PrideShow Editorial Board
IHG arrives at the top of the table on the strength of structure. Its global DEI strategy spans race, gender, LGBTQ+ status and disability, and its Out & Open colleague network gives that strategy a standing constituency inside the business rather than a calendar of events.
The external record is unusually consistent: a Corporate Equality Index 100% score sustained over multiple years, full international-framework adherence, and a Thai portfolio spanning InterContinental, Crowne Plaza, Holiday Inn, voco, Kimpton, Regent and Six Senses across the country's main tourism corridors.
Edition 1 placed IHG first. Edition 2 keeps it there on equal points with Accor — the two groups now separated less by policy than by how each has chosen to operationalise it across a very similar Thai footprint.