2000S216 events · 193 opened · 11 sold · 5 event · 4 closed · 2 awarded · 1 died
2000
Sold
Étienne Dolfi, the shop's own supplier, takes over À la Mère de Famille
2000
Opened
Ashok and Neelam Khanna open Ananda — India's first destination spa
2000
Opened
Singita Sasakwa opens in the Grumeti, Tanzania
2000
Opened
Jaisal Singh builds Sher Bagh at twenty — the first luxury tented camp in India
2000
Opened
Count Benedikt Bolza begins restoring Castello di Reschio in Umbria; the hotel opens in 2021
2000
Opened
Paul Canarelli opens Domaine de Murtoli on 2,500 hectares of southern Corsica
2000
Opened
The Saxon opens in Johannesburg, where Mandela edited the Long Walk to Freedom
2000
Opened
Anthony Lark leaves Aman after twelve years and five openings to join Montara Hospitality and design Trisara
2000
Opened
Ananda opens in the Viceregal Palace of the Maharaja of Tehri Garhwal above Rishikesh
2000
Opened
Palazzo Versace opens on the Gold Coast — the first fashion-branded hotel in the world
2001
Opened
Gorobiy opens Shambala on Kuznetsky Most — the start of Moscow's glamour decade
2001
Opened
Singita Lebombo opens in the Kruger with a design that rewrites the safari lodge
2001
Opened
Minor launches Anantara, its first proprietary luxury brand
2001
Opened
The Peninsula opens in Chicago, the group's first house in the American interior
2001
Opened
Manfredi Lefebvre d'Ovidio becomes chairman of Silversea
2001
Opened
Marriott partners with Bulgari to create Bulgari Hotels & Resorts; the second house is announced for Bali
2001
Opened
Walmart supplier offices in northwest Arkansas reach 445, having roughly doubled every two years
no register entry
2001
Opened
Cinq Mondes is founded in Paris on treatments gathered from five continents
2001
Opened
Tivoli's Portuguese houses pass into Minor's ownership in 2016 after decades under Portuguese control
2001
Opened
Jeanette Thottrup opens Borgo Santo Pietro in a thirteenth-century Tuscan farmhouse
2002
Opened
Roberto Cavalli opens his first café-store in Florence, then Just Cavalli at Torre Branca
2002
Opened
Alan Fuerstman founds Montage Hotels & Resorts
2002
Opened
Longitude 131° opens facing Uluru, its tented pavilions raised off the sand
2002
Opened
Three Camel Lodge opens in the Gobi, built by Mongolian craftsmen without nails
2002
Opened
The Inn at Dos Brisas opens in Texas on a working organic farm
2003
Opened
Robuchon opens L'Atelier in Tokyo — the counter as fine dining
2003
Opened
Lapin and Sergeev open the Japanese restaurant Ginza in St Petersburg
2003
Sold
Starwood sells the four hotels, the Porto Cervo marina, the Pevero golf club and 6,000 acres to Colony Capital for €290m on 19 June
2003
Opened
COMO Shambhala Estate opens outside Ubud
2003
Closed
A fire tears through Souq Waqif, then in decline and under discussion for demolition ⚑ some accounts date the fire to 2006
2003
Sold
Pestana takes over the management of Pousadas de Portugal — the state's historic-building network passes to a private operator
2004
Opened
Bulgari opens its first hotel in Milan with Ritz-Carlton
2004
Opened
Madinat Jumeirah opens in Dubai, built as a reconstructed Arabian town
2004
Opened
Trisara opens on Phuket's north-west coast — South East Asia's first all-pool-villa resort, thirty-nine villas and thirty sold privately
2004
Closed
Brando dies; Tetiaroa closes to visitors and the atoll is left to its birds
2004
Opened
The Setai opens at Miami Beach in a 1930s Art Deco tower, interiors by Jaya Ibrahim
2004
Opened
The Qatari royal family funds a restoration that keeps the oldest buildings and demolishes everything built after 1950, using mangrove roofs, bamboo matted with clay and straw, and mud plaster
2004
Opened
Anthony Lark opens Trisara on Phuket, nine kilometres from Amanpuri
2005
Sold
Prince Alwaleed's Kingdom Holding buys the Savoy; Fairmont takes management
2005
Opened
Horst Schulze founds Capella the day after retiring
2005
Opened
Six Senses is established as a separate brand by the Shivdasanis
2005
Opened
The Resort at Paws Up opens on 37,000 acres in Montana — glamping enters American luxury
2005
Opened
Steve Wynn opens Wynn Las Vegas, his first house under his own name
2005
Opened
Core Club opens in New York as a members' club without a dress code or a golf course
2005
Opened
The Ferragamo family opens Portrait Suites in Rome
2005
Opened
Dermot Desmond takes Sandy Lane in Barbados with McManus and Magnier
2005
Opened
The Dharmawangsa leaves Rosewood after eight years and becomes independent
2005
Opened
Verba Mayr opens in Austria, applying the Mayr method commercially
2005
Opened
Kamalaya opens on Koh Samui around a monk's cave, and codifies its programme
2005
Opened
AMResorts launches Secrets for adults-only all-inclusive resorts
2005
Opened
Roberto Naldi assembles his Roman and Swiss houses into a collection
2006
Sold
The Badrutt family bequeaths two-thirds of the Palace to its director, Hans Wiedemann
2006
Event
The Hôtel du Cap accepts credit cards for the first time; televisions follow in 2012
2006
Event
Beverly and Dereck Joubert found Great Plains Conservation
2006
Opened
Cheval Blanc opens its first Maison at Courchevel
2006
Opened
Marqués de Riscal opens in Elciego under Frank Gehry's titanium ribbons
2006
Opened
Melco Crown is formed by Lawrence Ho and James Packer for Macau
2006
Opened
Sonia Cheng joins New World and begins building Rosewood into a global group
2006
Opened
The Nam Hai opens at Hoi An, Jaya Ibrahim's Vietnamese house
2006
Opened
Supplier offices reach 1,218; the hotel, restaurant and housing market of Bentonville is built on them
no register entry
2006
Opened
LVMH opens a hotel at Courchevel and names it after the winery — Cheval Blanc; its restaurant is called 1947, after the château's most famous vintage
2006
Opened
Marqués de Riscal opens a hotel under Frank Gehry's titanium ribbons — the bodega becomes a house
2006
Opened
Beverly and Dereck Joubert found Great Plains Conservation
2006
Opened
Nick Troubetzkoy opens Jade Mountain on St Lucia, its rooms open on one side
2007
Died
Mark Birley sells the Birley clubs to Richard Caring in June; dies two months later
2007
Sold
Branson acquires Moskito Island beside Necker
2007
Opened
Michel Reybier buys La Réserve Genève and begins the collection
2007
Opened
La Petite Maison opens in London, taking the Niçoise model outward
2007
Opened
John Phillips restores Borgo Finocchieto in Tuscany over eight years
2008
Opened
TWG Tea founded in Singapore by Bouqdib, Barnes, Murjani and Aum-Stievenard
2008
Awarded
Gérald Passédat takes the third star, held since
2008
Opened
Alfredo Bataller Parietti opens SHA Wellness Clinic at Alicante
2008
Sold
Dietrich Mateschitz opens Laucala Island in Fiji, bought from the Forbes family
2008
Opened
Southern Ocean Lodge opens on Kangaroo Island; it burns in the 2020 bushfires and reopens in 2023
2008
Opened
Zarafa Camp opens in the Selinda, Botswana
2008
Awarded
Sher Bagh joins Relais & Châteaux, the first tented property in India invited
2008
Opened
Ian Schrager and Marriott launch EDITION
2008
Opened
Robert De Niro opens the Greenwich Hotel in Tribeca
2008
Opened
Atlantis The Palm opens in Dubai
2008
Sold
A Maryland jury finds Ritz-Carlton breached its duty to the owner of its Bali hotel by helping a competitor on the same island, and awards $10m in punitive damages
2008
Sold
The court rules on 28 April that PT Karang Mas Sejahtera may terminate the Ritz-Carlton agreement
2008
Closed
Hotel Bora Bora closes in October for a reconstruction that never happens
2008
Opened
Four Seasons Bora Bora opens in September on Motu Tehotu with 100 overwater bungalows
no register entry
2008
Opened
Guerlain Spa opens, taking a perfume house into hotel treatment rooms
2008
Opened
The Souq Waqif restoration completes, with the air-conditioning concealed and the parking put underground
2008
Opened
Accor takes MGallery to market as a collection of character hotels
2008
Opened
Swire opens the Opposite House in Beijing and begins the House Collective
2008
Opened
Four Seasons opens in Florence in the Palazzo della Gherardesca with the largest private garden in the city
2008
Opened
Swire Hotels is founded in Hong Kong; The Opposite House opens in Beijing
2009
Opened
The Upper House opens in Hong Kong, designed by André Fu
2009
Opened
Amangiri opens in the Utah desert, built into the rock by Wendell Burnette, Rick Joy and Marwan Al-Sayed
2009
Opened
Delaire Graff opens on the Helshoogte Pass, developed by Laurence Graff
2009
Opened
Primland opens on 12,000 acres of the Blue Ridge, developed by Didier Primat
2009
Opened
Yas Island opens in Abu Dhabi with the Yas Marina Circuit and the Yas Hotel
2009
Opened
The hotel drops the Ritz-Carlton name on 1 April and reopens as AYANA under Horst Schulze's West Paces Hotel Group
2009
Opened
AYANA is named Asia's Leading Luxury Resort at the World Travel Awards, months after the rebrand
2009
Closed
Co-founder Djoko Tjandra is convicted of corruption over the embezzlement of banking funds and flees the country the day before sentencing
2009
Opened
Private investors reopen San Miguel as a gourmet tapas market — the model of the market as a dining room, since copied worldwide
2009
Opened
CityCenter opens as a record-setting resort, residential and retail complex
2009
Opened
The Upper House opens above Pacific Place in Hong Kong on 2 October — 117 rooms, and André Fu’s first hotel
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.