Armenia. Yerevan. City center. A green ecological piano covered with grass. A mother and her child seated in a stroller. In the back, two men seated on a wooden bench and holding a mobile phone. The entrance to the Holiday Inn Express which is a mid-priced hotel chain within the InterContinental Hotels Group family of brands. Originally founded as an "express" hotel, their focus is on offering limited services at a reasonable price. Standard amenities lean toward the convenient and practical which cater to business travelers and short-term stays. As of September 2019, there are 2,826 Holiday Inn Express hotels featuring over 292,000 rooms worldwide. The Holiday Inn Express concept was intended to target the "upper economy" market segment, offering limited service, low-price lodging. The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700 in which the strings are struck by hammers. It is played using a keyboard, which is a row of keys (small levers) that the performer presses down or strikes with the fingers and thumbs of both hands to cause the hammers to strike the strings. Yerevan, sometimes spelled Erevan, is the capital and largest city of Armenia. 2.10.2019 © 2019 Didier Ruef