1990S151 events · 126 opened · 10 sold · 9 event · 2 invented · 2 closed · 1 awarded · 1 died
1990
Opened
Golden Eagle Luxury Trains begins operating the Trans-Siberian route
1990
Event
Rocky Mountaineer runs its first season through the Canadian Rockies
1990
Event
Christina Ong's hospitality platform takes shape in London and becomes COMO
1990
Opened
Universal Studios Florida opens; the resort's first hotel follows in 1999
1990
Opened
The Kwee family opens the first Pontiac Land hotel in Singapore
1990
Opened
Jean-Noël Marcellesi begins the Corsican hospitality developments
1990
Opened
The Northwest Arkansas Council is formed to get a new airport built, with Alice Walton as its first chair
no register entry
1990
Opened
Theo Gerlach's Seaside Collection opens its first Canary Islands house
1991
Opened
José Padilla takes the residency at Café del Mar and begins curating the sunset as a sequence
1991
Opened
The Lanesborough opens in the former St George's Hospital on Hyde Park Corner
1992
Opened
Post Ranch Inn opens on the Big Sur cliffs, built by Mickey Muennig with no tree felled
1992
Opened
A regional vote returns an overwhelming majority for a new airport; the FAA grant for the land follows in 1994
no register entry
1992
Opened
Adrian Zecha and Hans Jenni form GHM; the first Chedi opens at Bandung
1992
Opened
The Muntoni family opens the first Delphina house in Gallura
1992
Invented
Maniku founds the Maldives Association of Tourism Industry and chairs it
1993
Opened
Daniel Boulud opens DANIEL, having left Le Cirque in 1992
1993
Closed
Boonchu Rojanastien demolishes his Hua Hin beach house to build a retreat
1993
Opened
The Datai opens at Langkawi, by Kerry Hill — the rainforest resort as a category
1993
Event
The Eastern & Oriental Express makes its inaugural Bangkok–Singapore journey
1993
Opened
Luke Bailes opens Singita Ebony on family land in the Sabi Sand
1993
Opened
Twin Farms opens in Vermont, on the farm Sinclair Lewis bought for Dorothy Thompson in 1928
1993
Opened
Kirk Kerkorian opens the MGM Grand — the largest hotel in the world at the time
1993
Opened
The Datai opens at Langkawi in the rainforest, by Kerry Hill with interiors by Jaya Ibrahim
1993
Opened
Pedro Ibáñez opens the first explora lodge in Torres del Paine
1993
Opened
The present MGM Grand opens with about 5,000 rooms — the third Kerkorian development to open as the largest hotel in the world
1993
Opened
Auberge de La Ferme aux Grives opens in a restored farmhouse on the estate
1994
Invented
Padilla compiles Café del Mar Volumen Uno — chillout becomes a commercial genre
1994
Opened
Guido Lembo opens Taverna Anema e Core on Capri with no dress code
1994
Opened
Antonio Lefebvre d'Ovidio launches Silversea with Silver Cloud and Silver Wind
1994
Opened
Ho Kwon Ping and Claire Chiang open Banyan Tree Phuket on rehabilitated tin-mine land
1994
Sold
Sternlicht's Starwood Capital acquires the Westin and Sheraton platforms
1994
Opened
Nobu opens in Tribeca — the restaurant that became a hotel brand
1994
Opened
The Legian opens at Seminyak, an early Jaya Ibrahim interior
1994
Sold
The Aga Khan's Italian company loses control of CIGA; Sheraton takes over Cala di Volpe
1994
Opened
Forty-eight Walmart supplier companies keep offices in northwest Arkansas, several of them one person working from home
no register entry
1995
Opened
Sonu and Eva Shivdasani open Soneva Fushi
1995
Event
Yoshiharu Hoshino's family business adopts the Hoshino Resorts identity
1995
Event
Ian Schrager and André Balazs shape the boutique hotel through Morgans and Chateau Marmont
1995
Opened
Nick Jones opens Soho House above a Greek Street restaurant, for people in the creative industries
1995
Opened
The Ferragamo family opens the Lungarno in Florence
1995
Opened
Jean-Louis Costes opens Hôtel Costes on the rue Saint-Honoré, interiors by Jacques Garcia
1995
Opened
Miraval opens in the Arizona desert as a destination wellness resort
1995
Opened
Boonchu Rojanastien opens Chiva-Som at Hua Hin — the first Asian destination spa
1996
Opened
Buddha-Bar opens on the Faubourg Saint-Honoré — Raymond Vișan with Claude Challe
1996
Sold
Prince Alwaleed buys the George V from the Granada Group for a reported $178m
1996
Opened
Olga Polizzi becomes director of design for Rocco Forte Hotels
1996
Opened
Aldo Melpignano's family opens Borgo Egnazia's forerunner Masseria San Domenico
1996
Opened
Rocco Forte founds RF Hotels after the Granada takeover of Forte Group
1996
Opened
The Ritz-Carlton Bali opens at Jimbaran, Asia's first Ritz-Carlton, with Horst Schulze on the opening team
1996
Opened
The Doyle Collection takes shape from the Irish hotels of P.V. Doyle
1996
Opened
Abadía Retuerta LeDomaine opens in a twelfth-century abbey in Ribera del Duero
1996
Opened
Peter Zumthor's thermal baths open at Vals; the hotel takes the 7132 name in 2013
1997
Event
The painting of Slavia leaves the café for the city gallery, over public protest
1997
Awarded
Le Meurice joins what becomes the Dorchester Collection
1997
Sold
The Ritz-Carlton Residences launch, taking branded living to scale
1997
Opened
Pepe Fanjul's family develops Casa de Campo's Teeth of the Dog
1997
Opened
Mohamed Alabbar founds Emaar, which builds the Address and Vida brands
1997
Opened
The Dharmawangsa opens in Jakarta on 1 December, inaugurated by President Suharto for the OPEC summit — a Rosewood hotel of 99 rooms, designed in part by Jaya Ibrahim
1997
Opened
Jean-Georges Vongerichten opens Jean-Georges at Central Park West
1997
Opened
Christina Ong founds COMO Shambhala in Singapore
1997
Opened
Praveen Moman founds Volcanoes Safaris for gorilla tourism in Uganda and Rwanda
1997
Opened
The Palazzo Sasso reopens at Ravello; it takes the Avino name in 2013
1998
Opened
Pierre Hermé and Charles Znaty found Maison Pierre Hermé Paris; the first shop opens in Tokyo
1998
Opened
The Gstaad Yacht Club is founded in a landlocked alpine village
no register entry
1998
Opened
Mark Harmon forms Auberge Resorts as a management platform
1998
Sold
Starwood buys ITT Sheraton, taking St. Regis, The Luxury Collection and Westin
1998
Opened
Barry Sternlicht launches W Hotels — lifestyle inside a hotel corporation
1998
Sold
Amanresorts opens Amanjena at Marrakech, taking Aman beyond Asia
1998
Opened
Amangani opens above Jackson Hole — the first Aman in the Americas
1998
Opened
Sol Kerzner opens Atlantis Paradise Island in the Bahamas
1998
Opened
XNA opens on 1 November and is dedicated by President Clinton before a crowd of eight thousand — an airport built because the traffic already existed, and known until then as the airport to nowhere
no register entry
1998
Opened
Bernard Arnault and Baron Albert Frère buy Château Cheval Blanc after 166 years in one family
1998
Opened
David Fattal, who began as a bellboy, founds Fattal Hotels
1999
Opened
Café Pushkin opens on Tverskoy Boulevard on 4 June; Bécaud sings Nathalie at the opening
1999
Opened
The George V reopens on 18 December under Four Seasons after a reported $125m rebuild
1999
Opened
André Balazs opens The Standard on Sunset Boulevard
1999
Opened
Al Maha opens in the Dubai desert conservation reserve, the emirate's first desert resort
1999
Opened
Les Sources de Caudalie opens at Château Smith Haut Lafitte — vinotherapy becomes a spa category
1999
Opened
Sheldon Adelson opens the Venetian in Las Vegas; the Macau Venetian follows in 2007
1999
Opened
Liz and Phil Biden open the first Royal Portfolio house at Birkenhead
1999
Opened
Brando partners with Richard Bailey to plan an eco-resort on Tetiaroa; he insists on no fossil fuels, no asphalt and no overwater bungalows
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.