1960S88 events · 69 opened · 7 event · 4 sold · 3 awarded · 3 invented · 1 died · 1 closed
1960
Event
Jean-Prosper Gay-Para hears of Byblos in Beirut and resolves to build one at Saint-Tropez
1960
Opened
Marlon Brando climbs a Tahitian peak on a day off from Mutiny on the Bounty and sees Tetiaroa on the horizon
1960
Opened
An international airport opens on Tahiti, putting French Polynesia within reach of jet travel
1960
Opened
The Aga Khan first visits the Gallura coast in December, after a British banker returns from sailing Sardinia with stories of it
1961
Opened
Isadore Sharp opens the Four Seasons Motor Hotel on Jarvis Street, Toronto — 125 rooms on an unfashionable street
1961
Opened
Isadore Sharp opens the Four Seasons Motor Hotel in Toronto
1961
Opened
Hotel Bora Bora opens as the island's first large hotel — eighteen thatched huts by Hammarberg and Herman on a point between Pofai Bay and Matira Beach
1961
Opened
Hotel Bora Bora opens with eighteen thatched huts at Pointe Raititi — the island's first hotel
1961
Opened
Marlon Brando arrives to film Mutiny on the Bounty and meets his Polynesian co-star Tarita Teriipaia
1961
Opened
The Palace Hotel opens facing the Imperial Palace moat in Tokyo
1961
Opened
Castillo Son Vida opens in a thirteenth-century Mallorcan castle
1962
Event
Le Rosay and the Gstaad winter season draw the international set to the Palace
1962
Opened
Il Pellicano opens at Porto Ercole, built by Patsy Daszel and Michael Graham
1962
Opened
The Okura opens in Tokyo, built for the 1964 Olympics with the Orient's own modernism
1962
Opened
The Ocean Club opens on Paradise Island, built by Huntington Hartford
1962
Opened
Il Pellicano opens at Porto Ercole; the Sciò family takes it in 1979
1962
Opened
The Okura opens in Tokyo, the house Baron Kishichiro Okura's family built
1962
Opened
Three Californians whose vanilla crop had failed buy a run-down Moorea property in March and name it Hotel Bali Hai after Michener
1962
Opened
The Consorzio Costa Smeralda is formed at Olbia on 14 March by the Aga Khan with Patrick Guinness, Felix Bigio, John Duncan Miller, André Ardoin and René Podbielski ⚑ the land is given as 1,800, 3,114, 4,000 and 5,000 hectares across sources
1962
Opened
The consortium's building code fixes the rule the destination is built on: no building may rise above the height of the surrounding vegetation
1962
Opened
The Corinthia Palace opens in Malta; the Pisani family builds the group from it
1963
Opened
Mark Birley opens Annabel's at 44 Berkeley Square on 4 June
1963
Event
Mohan Singh Oberoi's group is by now the largest Indian-owned hotel company
1963
Opened
The Aga Khan founds the Costa Smeralda consortium in Sardinia
1963
Opened
The Leali family opens the Villa Feltrinelli's forerunner at Gargnano
1963
Opened
Hotel Cala di Volpe opens in July, built by Jacques Couëlle as a Mediterranean fishing village
1963
Opened
Olbia airport is reopened and renamed Olbia-Costa Smeralda; the Aga Khan founds the Alisarda airline to serve it
1963
Opened
The Mandarin opens in Hong Kong; the Oriental Bangkok joins in 1974 to form the group
1964
Event
Gilbert Bécaud sings of a Café Pouchkine in Nathalie — a place that does not exist
1964
Awarded
Sol Kerzner builds the Beverly Hills at Umhlanga Rocks — South Africa's first five-star hotel
1964
Event
The Beatles stay at the George V during their Paris Olympia run and write in a suite with a piano
1964
Opened
Marlene Dietrich performs at the Gstaad Palace on 15 February; the gala season makes the hotel's name
1964
Opened
Sofitel opens its first hotel at Strasbourg
1964
Opened
Hotel Pitrizza and the Cervo Hotel open in August; Luigi Vietti's Porto Cervo village is completed
1965
Died
Franz Xaver Mayr dies at ninety, having practised to the end
1965
Opened
Construction begins on the Byblos in a Phoenician-Tropezian style
1965
Closed
Fire destroys seventy buildings on the Bangkok riverfront; the Oriental is rebuilt
1965
Opened
The Capezzone family opens their first Corsican house
1965
Opened
Hotel Romazzino opens in the summer, built by the Rank Organisation and later sold to the Aga Khan
1965
Opened
Laurance Rockefeller opens Mauna Kea Beach Hotel on the Kohala coast
1965
Opened
Spyros Kokotos opens Elounda Mare, the first Greek hotel with private-pool bungalows
1965
Sold
José and Manuel Pestana acquire the Hotel Atlântico at Funchal ⚑ founder attribution varies across sources
1966
Opened
P.R.S. Oberoi opens the Oberoi Centre of Learning and Development
1966
Opened
After six years and a direct request to the president of France, Brando buys Tetiaroa for $270,000 from a nearly blind woman who moved about the island by wires strung between trees
1966
Opened
Brando takes a 99-year lease on Tetiaroa, the twelve-motu atoll that had been the retreat of Tahitian royalty
1967
Opened
The Byblos is inaugurated on 27 May with Bardot and Mireille Darc among 700 guests
1967
Sold
Gay-Para sells the Byblos to Sylvain Floirat in September, months after opening
1967
Opened
William Heinecke founds his first companies at seventeen
1967
Opened
Paul Dubrule and Gérard Pélisson open the first Novotel at Lille
1967
Opened
Jocelyne and Jean-Louis Sibuet open their first house at Megève
1967
Opened
Kurt Wachtveitl becomes general manager of the Oriental Bangkok and stays thirty-nine years
1967
Invented
The Bali Hai Boys build three guest rooms on stilts over the lagoon at Raiatea — the first overwater bungalows, put up because the hotel had no beach
no register entry
1967
Opened
The Yacht Club Costa Smeralda is founded at Porto Cervo
1967
Opened
Hyatt Regency Atlanta opens as the first Hyatt Regency; John Portman’s 22-storey atrium establishes a new hotel typology
LHL-P-181Jay PritzkerLHL-P-191John Portman
1968
Opened
Michael Chow opens Mr Chow in Knightsbridge on 14 February — Beijing food, Italian waiters, no chopsticks
1968
Event
Colin Tennant develops Mustique after buying the island for £45,000 in 1958
1968
Opened
Fog in the valley keeps some 300 commercial flights from landing at Drake Field, the airport serving northwest Arkansas
no register entry
1968
Opened
Twelve American hoteliers form Preferred Hotels to compete with the chains
1968
Opened
Petit St. Vincent opens in the Grenadines, its cottages summoned by flag
1968
Sold
Kerkorian sells Trans International Airlines to Transamerica; construction of the International begins
1968
Invented
Guérard creates the salade gourmande, an early expression of his lighter cuisine
1969
Opened
Schlosshotels und Herrenhäuser is formed to market castles and manor houses opened as hotels
1969
Opened
Hyatt Regency Hong Kong becomes Hyatt’s first hotel outside the United States
1969
Opened
The International Hotel opens in Las Vegas with about 1,500 rooms at a cost of $55m — then the largest hotel in the world; Barbra Streisand headlines the opening, Elvis Presley follows
Notes on the series. Hotel-native institutions enter as cross-references inside the article of the house that holds them, not as separate codes — a bar or spa receives its own entry only when it has become a name in its own right. Seasonal and fashion collaborations are recorded as dated lines within a house, never as entries. Residential clinics and estates, however wellness-led, belong to the main register: they sell nights. Entries carry permanent LHL-S codes once published; drafts await verification by two independent sources. · Published by LVXVRY under Editorial Manifesto LHL-001 v1.6.