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2020s

108
Events
28
Countries
2020–2029
Span

The 2020s.

2020S116 events · 66 opened · 18 event · 11 sold · 7 died · 7 closed · 6 awarded · 1 invented
2020
Event
Henri Chenot retires, appointing Dr George Gaitanos
2020
Awarded
Pavillon Ledoyen reaches six stars — the most Michelin-starred independent house in the world
2020
Event
The Connaught Bar named World's Best Bar; again in 2021
2020
Died
José Padilla dies on 18 October
2020
Closed
Brasserie Мост closes on Kuznetsky Most, ending the house that began as the club The Most
2020
Awarded
Gucci Osteria Florence takes a Michelin star under Karime Lopez
2020
Closed
The Ritz London closes for the first time since 1906, then sells to Abdulhadi Mana Al-Hajri in March
2020
Opened
Museum Hotel Antakya opens on stilts above the archaeology it was built to protect
2020
Opened
HOTEL THE MITSUI opens in Kyoto on land the family held for 250 years
2020
Closed
Djoko Tjandra is arrested in Malaysia in July after eleven years as a fugitive and jailed in Indonesia for bribing a police officer and a prosecutor
2020
Opened
Chenot Palace opens at Weggis on Lake Lucerne, carrying Henri Chenot's method
2020
Opened
Hyatt launches Destination by Hyatt from the Two Roads acquisition
2020
Opened
Banyan Tree launches Garrya
2020
Opened
Namron Hospitality is formed in Malaysia
2020
Opened
Kalesma opens at Mykonos in the form of a Cycladic settlement
2020
Opened
Capella opens on the Chao Phraya at Bangkok
2020
Opened
Forestis opens above Bressanone on the Plose
2020
Opened
The Opus opens in Dubai in Zaha Hadid's cube with a void cut through it
2021
Awarded
Zén Singapore takes three stars
2021
Sold
Tao Group acquires Hakkasan
2021
Sold
SA Hospitality buys back Sant Ambroeus's original Milan address
2021
Opened
Il Borro Tuscan Bistro opens on Berkeley Street, London, on 12 November
2021
Opened
Café Lapérouse opens at the Hôtel de la Marine, Place de la Concorde
2021
Opened
Joali Being opens on Bodufushi on 15 November with the Areka wellbeing centre
2021
Opened
Palazzo Fiuggi reopens as a medical retreat on 21 June after a €30m rebuild
2021
Opened
Kisawa Sanctuary opens on Benguerra Island, 3D-printed from sand and seawater
2021
Opened
Casa Cipriani opens in the Battery Maritime Building, New York
2021
Opened
Our Habitas opens at AlUla, built to be dismantled without trace
2021
Opened
White Desert opens Echo in Antarctica, its cabins modelled on a space station
2021
Opened
Grand Lisboa Palace opens on Cotai under SJM, fourteen months after Stanley Ho died
2021
Opened
Resorts World opens on the Las Vegas Strip, the first new resort there in a decade
2021
Opened
IHG launches Vignette Collection for independent hotels
2021
Opened
Accor launches Emblems Collection
2021
Opened
Centara launches Centara Reserve at Samui
2021
Opened
Karl Lagerfeld Hotels announces its first house in Macau, after the designer's death
2021
Opened
Capella Group launches Patina with a house at Marina Bay
2021
Opened
Beaumier is formed from a group of French Alpine and Provençal houses
2021
Opened
Niva opens in Georgia
2021
Opened
Mantera opens in Russia
2021
Opened
Azumi Setoda opens in a 140-year-old merchant house on Ikuchijima
2021
Opened
Madame Rêve opens in the former central post office of Paris
2021
Opened
Rosewood takes the Villa Magna in Madrid
2021
Opened
Matild Palace opens in Budapest in an 1902 palace
2021
Opened
Airelles opens Le Grand Contrôle inside the grounds of Versailles
2021
Opened
Manzherok opens in the Altai ⚑ watch entry, admitted on the register's own terms
2022
Event
Biologique Recherche replaces Chanel at the Ritz Club
2022
Opened
Lanserhof at The Arts Club opens in Mayfair
2022
Event
Alpha Dhabi takes a major interest in Nammos
2022
Sold
Accor buys Paris Society outright on ~€250m of revenue
2022
Sold
Artfarm buys the Groucho Club for £40m in August
2022
Died
2022
Opened
Cédric Grolet at The Berkeley opens in March — his first house outside Paris
2022
Opened
Zulal opens in Qatar, carrying the Chiva-Som method into traditional Arabic medicine
2022
Event
The Ritz-Carlton Yacht Collection sails its first voyage aboard Evrima after four years of delay
2022
Event
Aman announces Aman at Sea, a 50-suite yacht by Sinot
2022
Opened
Aman New York opens in the Crown Building on Fifth Avenue
2022
Opened
Banyan Tree AlUla opens in the Ashar valley
2022
Opened
Estelle Manor opens at Eynsham Hall in Oxfordshire
2022
Opened
Bentonville's population reaches 58,000 from 36,000 in 2010, with more cranes per head than any other American city
no register entry
2022
Opened
Il Tornabuoni opens in Florence in a fifteenth-century palazzo
2022
Opened
The De Santis family opens Passalacqua at Moltrasio on Lake Como
2022
Opened
Borgo Santandrea opens on the Amalfi cliffs, rebuilt from a 1960s hotel
2023
Opened
La Tour d'Argent reopens on 29 August after a 17-month renovation
2023
Sold
Paris Society takes over the operation of Maxim's in November
2023
Sold
Mohari buys Tao Group for £441m
2023
Sold
Trilantic sells the Pacha nightclubs and hotels to FIVE for ~€320m, keeping Lío
2023
Event
Core: moves to 711 Fifth Avenue in September — 60,000 sq ft, lobby by Peter Marino
2023
Sold
FIVE Holdings buys the Pacha clubs and hotels for a reported €302.5m
2023
Opened
Gucci Osteria Seoul opens on 28 March, the fourth house
2023
Closed
Café Lapérouse opens at Raffles London, The OWO ⚑ since closed
2023
Died
Mohamed Al-Fayed dies on 30 August
2023
Event
Var-Matin reports Saint-Tropez restaurants quoting a €5,000 minimum spend at booking and screening guests against spend databases; the mayor calls the practices despicable
no register entry
2023
Event
Explora Journeys sails its first ship, EXPLORA I, for MSC's luxury line
2023
Invented
Aman charters a private jet for its own guests
2023
Opened
Raffles London opens in the Old War Office on Whitehall
2023
Closed
The Hotel Pennsylvania is demolished after 104 years
no register entry
2023
Opened
Meliá gathers its most distinctive houses into The Meliá Collection
2023
Opened
Bawe Island opens off Zanzibar
2023
Opened
Bulgari opens in Tokyo on the top floors of the Yaesu tower
2023
Opened
Anton Pinsky takes the Dovlatov at Esto-Sadok and reopens it as the Pinskiy Boutique Hotel — 39 rooms, with Loona on the ground floor ⚑ year of reopening to confirm
2024
Sold
Beiersdorf agrees to buy Clinique La Prairie's Montreux real estate
2024
Event
De Gourcuff and Paris Society convicted over the Longchamp licence; suspended sentence, February
2024
Event
A Valencia court annuls Roselló's Space trademark in favour of the Matutes family
2024
Event
Orient Express announces Silenseas, to be the largest sailing ship in the world
2024
Opened
Le Grand Tour begins running through France
2024
Awarded
SUJÁN JAWAI is ranked 43rd in the World's 50 Best Hotels — the only hotel in India on the list
2024
Opened
Desert Rock opens in Saudi Arabia, cut into a mountain by Oppenheim
2024
Opened
Ruinart opens the Pavillon Nicolas Ruinart in October — lounges, a champagne bar, a dining room and a terrace
2024
Opened
Three restored coral houses — Jokhdar, Al-Rayyis and Kedwan — open as heritage hotels in Al Balad
2024
Opened
Jokhdar, Al-Rayyis and Kedwan open as heritage hotels in restored coral houses at Al Balad
2024
Opened
The Wolseley Hospitality Group announces its move into hotels
2024
Opened
Sharaan by Jean Nouvel is cut into the sandstone at AlUla ⚑ opening announced
2024
Opened
The Lana opens in Dubai, Dorchester Collection's first house in the Gulf
2024
Died
Michel Guérard dies at Eugénie-les-Bains on 18 August; the death is announced on 19 August
2024
Opened
2025
Died
Jack Penrod dies on 3 February, aged 85
2025
Closed
Hakkasan's original Hanway Place closes permanently in February
2025
Awarded
FZN Dubai takes three stars on 23 May — Frantzén the only chef holding three three-star houses
2025
Sold
ADMO Lifestyle Holding acquires Nammos Group in March
2025
Event
Mohari separates Hakkasan Group out again in September
2025
Event
DIAFA takes a strategic stake in Azumi in October
2025
Died
Patrice de Colmont dies on 11 October, aged 77
2025
Event
Billionaire Porto Cervo is rebranded Twiga Porto Cervo
2025
Opened
Just Cavalli Milano reopens as JustMe under new management
2025
Opened
Novikov reopens the address as Brasserie Kuznetsky Most, with Kaifuso in the old club basement
2025
Opened
The Louis opens on West Nanjing Road on 27 June, built as a cruise ship
2025
Opened
The Waldorf Astoria reopens after eight years with 375 rooms of its original 1,416
2025
Opened
Orient Express La Dolce Vita begins running on Italian lines
2025
Awarded
L’Orangerie receives a Michelin star, widening the estate’s starred dining system
2025
Event
Swire retires the name The House Collective and renames its Houses Upper House
2025
Died
Mohamed Umar Maniku dies in Singapore on 30 August
2026
Sold
DIAFA acquires the Caring group for £1.4bn in April — Ivy, Caprice, Birley
2026
Event
Langosteria's parent restructured as Buonocore Hospitality Group in spring
2026
Event
Four Seasons Yachts takes its maiden voyage from Lisbon in January
2027
Closed
Dinner by Heston Blumenthal closes at the end of January, at sixteen years
2027
Opened
Wynn Al Marjan Island is announced as the first casino resort in the Emirates ⚑ not yet open
← 2010s
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