United States

Tremont House opens in Boston on 16 October, by Isaiah Rogers — indoor plumbing, indoor baths and lavatories, a reception area, locked single rooms, free soap and bellboys. The specification of the modern hotel, sixty years before the Savoy

The Palace opens in San Francisco; it is rebuilt after the 1906 earthquake and fire

The Villard Houses are built on Madison Avenue; the Palace hotel rises behind them in 1980

Dunton is founded as a mining camp in Colorado; it reopens as a hotel in 2001

The Grand Hotel opens on Mackinac Island with the longest porch in the world

The Hotel del Coronado opens on the beach south of San Diego

Hotel Jerome opens at Aspen during the silver boom

The Waldorf opens on Fifth Avenue; the Astoria joins it in 1897 — the tall-building hotel, thirteen and sixteen floors Waldorf Astoria New York

San Ysidro Ranch opens at Montecito; Kennedy honeymoons there and Olivier marries Leigh there

Tremont House razed

The Breakers opens at Palm Beach, built by Henry Flagler beside his railway

Castle Hot Springs opens in Arizona, the state's first resort, reached by stagecoach

John Jacob Astor IV opens the taller Astoria next door; Peacock Alley joins them Waldorf Astoria New York

The Moana opens at Waikiki, the first hotel on the beach

The Mount Washington opens in the White Mountains

The St. Regis opens on Fifth Avenue, built by John Jacob Astor IV St. Regis Hotels & Resorts

The St. Regis opens on Fifth Avenue, built by John Jacob Astor IV

Pike Place Market opens in Seattle as a revolt against the middlemen raising food prices — farmers selling direct Pike Place Market

The Plaza opens on Fifth Avenue at Central Park

The Fairmont opens in San Francisco, a year after the earthquake

Ellsworth Statler opens the Buffalo Statler on 18 January — a thousand rooms, a private bath in every one, and the first hotel chain

The Beverly Hills Hotel opens before the city around it exists

Keswick Hall is built in Virginia; it becomes a hotel in 1993

The Collins Bridge opens on 12 June, two and a half miles of wood and the longest in the world; Fisher, who paid to finish it, is in Indianapolis Carl G. Fisher

The Greenbrier's present hotel opens at White Sulphur Springs

S. F. B. Morse forms Del Monte Properties and buys the Monterey coast for $1.34 m — golf courses with the views, residential lots around them, and the lot sales paying for the courses Samuel F. B. Morse

Fisher Island is created out of the spoil from dredging Biscayne Bay Carl G. Fisher

The Surrey opens on the Upper East Side

A category four hurricane hits Miami Beach on 18 September while Fisher is at Montauk; Miami Beach was the security for the Montauk financing and both go Carl G. Fisher

J. Willard and Alice Marriott open a nine-seat root beer stand in Washington in May JW Marriott

The Carlyle opens on Madison Avenue

The Hay-Adams opens on Lafayette Square facing the White House

The Cloister opens at Sea Island, built by Howard Coffin and designed by Addison Mizner

The Chateau Marmont opens on Sunset Boulevard, modelled on a Loire château

Both Astor hotels are demolished for the Empire State Building Waldorf Astoria New York

The Pierre opens on Fifth Avenue at Central Park

Alden Freeman builds Casa Casuarina on Ocean Drive, modelled on the Alcázar de Colón and built partly with brick brought from it The Villa Casa Casuarina

William Avery Rockefeller II builds Camp Wonundra on Saranac Lake; it opens as The Point in 1980

The Waldorf Astoria opens on Park Avenue on 1 October — the largest and tallest hotel in the world Waldorf Astoria New York

The Bel-Air opens in a Los Angeles canyon around a stream and swans

Hilton Hotels Corporation is formed; it lists on the New York Stock Exchange the following year Waldorf Astoria Hotels & Resorts

Loews is founded by the Tisch brothers Loews Hotels

Roy Kelley opens his first Waikiki hotel; Outrigger grows from it Outrigger Resorts & Hotels

Bemelmans Bar opens at the Carlyle; Ludwig Bemelmans paints the murals for a year's board Bemelmans Bar

Conrad Hilton forms Hilton International Waldorf Astoria Hotels & Resorts

Conrad Hilton acquires the Waldorf Astoria Waldorf Astoria New York

Conrad Hilton acquires the Waldorf Astoria; the brand becomes a Hilton line Waldorf Astoria Hotels & Resorts

The Caribe Hilton opens in San Juan — the first Hilton outside the continental United States Waldorf Astoria Hotels & Resorts

Hilton buys the Statler chain for $111m — then the largest real-estate transaction on record Statler Hotels

The Fontainebleau opens at Miami Beach, designed by Morris Lapidus Fontainebleau

Jay Pritzker buys Hyatt House, a motor lodge by Los Angeles airport — the company begins at an airport Hyatt Hotels Corporation

The Waldorf Astoria loses the height record to Moscow's Hotel Ukraina after twenty-six years Waldorf Astoria New York

The Twin Bridges Motor Hotel opens in Arlington in January — Marriott's first hotel, thirty years after the root beer stand JW Marriott

The Twin Bridges Motor Hotel opens — Marriott's first JW Marriott

Omni's forerunner Dunfey Hotels begins in New Hampshire Omni Hotels & Resorts

The racial covenants Morse wrote into the Pebble Beach deeds are dropped as unenforceable after the Civil Rights Act Samuel F. B. Morse

NetJets pioneers fractional aircraft ownership as Executive Jet Aviation NetJets

Meadowood opens in the Napa Valley

Laurance Rockefeller opens Mauna Kea Beach Hotel in July for $15 m — the most expensive hotel built to that date, with no televisions and no air-conditioning by design Laurance S. Rockefeller

Edward Charles Bassett’s Mauna Kea opens, open-air and ventilated by the trade winds, with the island’s first golf course by Robert Trent Jones Sr Edward Charles Bassett

Hyatt Regency Atlanta opens with John Portman’s atrium, making a shared interior volume part of the hotel experience Hyatt Hotels Corporation

Twelve American hoteliers form Preferred Hotels to compete with the chains Preferred Hotels & Resorts

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 MGM Resorts International

The first Starbucks opens in Pike Place Market Pike Place Market

Walt Disney World opens in Florida with the Contemporary and the Polynesian Walt Disney World Resort

The original MGM Grand opens with 2,084 rooms at a cost of $107m — again the largest hotel in the world MGM Resorts International

Le Cirque opens at the Mayfair House Hotel, New York Le Cirque

Sandy and Kreis Beall open Blackberry Farm in the Tennessee foothills

Studio 54 opens at 254 West 54th Street on 26 April Studio 54

The Paradise Garage opens at 84 King Street with Larry Levan resident Paradise Garage

Patrick O'Connell and Reinhardt Lynch open The Inn at Little Washington in a converted garage

Grand Hyatt New York and Park Hyatt Chicago open, adding two brands to the Hyatt portfolio Grand Hyatt

Eighty-five people die in the fire at the original MGM Grand on 21 November; the disaster exposes critical weaknesses in hotel fire and smoke protection MGM Resorts International

claimed The first Grand Hyatt opens in Hong Kong ⚑ the brand is formalised in 1980 Grand Hyatt

Studio 54 closes on 2 February after thirty-three months; Rubell and Schrager go to prison Studio 54

TCS World Travel begins private-jet expeditions TCS World Travel

Park Hyatt launches in Chicago as Hyatt's luxury line Park Hyatt

Jason Pomeranc's Thompson Hotels begin in New York Thompson Hotels

Bill Kimpton opens the Clarion Bedford in San Francisco — the American boutique hotel Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants

Bob Harmon and Claude Rouas open Auberge du Soleil as a restaurant; cottages follow in 1985

Wolfgang Puck opens Spago on the Sunset Strip Wolfgang Puck Fine Dining Group

Stein Eriksen Lodge opens at Deer Valley under the Olympic champion's name

Horst Schulze and William B. Johnson found the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company The Ritz-Carlton

Ian Schrager and Steve Rubell open Morgans in New York — the boutique hotel begins Steve Wynn

Conrad Hotels launches as Hilton's international luxury brand Conrad Hotels & Resorts

Triple Creek Ranch opens in the Bitterroot valley, Montana

The original MGM Grand hotels in Las Vegas and Reno are sold to Bally’s; MGM Grand, Inc. is founded as the corporate predecessor of the present company MGM Resorts International

Maguy and Gilbert Le Coze bring Le Bernardin to New York Le Bernardin

Cal-a-Vie opens in California, an early destination spa built as a Provençal village

The Paradise Garage closes Paradise Garage

Seabourn is founded and launches Seabourn Pride Seabourn

Historic Hotels of America is founded by the National Trust for Historic Preservation Historic Hotels of America

The Little Nell opens at the base of Aspen Mountain

André Balazs buys the Chateau Marmont

Universal Studios Florida opens; the resort's first hotel follows in 1999 Universal Orlando Resort

Gianni Versace, in Miami on his way to Cuba, asks a taxi driver for something fancy and fun, is taken to South Beach, and buys the Amsterdam Palace for USD 2.95 million The Villa Casa Casuarina

Post Ranch Inn opens on the Big Sur cliffs, built by Mickey Muennig with no tree felled

The present MGM Grand opens with about 5,000 rooms — the third Kerkorian development to open as the largest hotel in the world MGM Resorts International

Daniel Boulud opens DANIEL, having left Le Cirque in 1992 Daniel Boulud / The Dinex Group

Twin Farms opens in Vermont, on the farm Sinclair Lewis bought for Dorothy Thompson in 1928

Kirk Kerkorian opens the MGM Grand — the largest hotel in the world at the time MGM Resorts International

Nobu opens in New York — Matsuhisa, De Niro and Teper Nobu Restaurants

Sternlicht's Starwood Capital acquires the Westin and Sheraton platforms The Luxury Collection

Nobu opens in Tribeca — the restaurant that became a hotel brand Nobu Hospitality

Miraval opens in the Arizona desert as a destination wellness resort Miraval Resorts & Spas

Ian Schrager and Philippe Starck open the Delano in Miami Beach Delano

Ian Schrager and André Balazs shape the boutique hotel through Morgans and Chateau Marmont The Standard

Schrager and Starck open the Mondrian on Sunset Boulevard Mondrian

Jean-Georges Vongerichten opens Jean-Georges at Central Park West Jean-Georges Vongerichten

Gianni Versace is murdered on the front steps of his house at 1116 Ocean Drive, aged fifty The Villa Casa Casuarina

The Ritz-Carlton Residences launch, taking branded living to scale The Ritz-Carlton Residences

Jack Penrod takes Nikki Beach onto the sand at Miami Beach Nikki Beach Clubs

Viceroy takes shape in California from the Kor Group Viceroy Hotels & Resorts

Jack Penrod opens Nikki Beach in Miami Nikki Beach Hotels & Resorts

Starwood buys ITT Corporation — seven times its size — beating Hilton in one of the decade’s most dramatic takeover battles ITT Sheraton

Mark Harmon forms Auberge Resorts as a management platform Auberge Resorts Collection

Starwood buys ITT Sheraton, taking St. Regis, The Luxury Collection and Westin St. Regis Hotels & Resorts

Barry Sternlicht launches W Hotels — lifestyle inside a hotel corporation W Hotels

Amangani opens above Jackson Hole — the first Aman in the Americas

Alex Calderwood opens the first Ace Hotel in Seattle Ace Hotel

André Balazs opens The Standard on Sunset Boulevard The Standard

White Elephant opens on Nantucket harbour White Elephant Resorts

Jason Pomeranc's Sixty group opens 60 Thompson in New York SIXTY Hotels

The Peninsula opens in Chicago, the group's first house in the American interior

Alan Fuerstman founds Montage Hotels & Resorts Montage Hotels & Resorts

The Inn at Dos Brisas opens in Texas on a working organic farm

The Setai opens at Miami Beach in a 1930s Art Deco tower, interiors by Jaya Ibrahim

Hotel Indigo opens its first house in Atlanta Hotel Indigo

AMResorts launches Secrets for adults-only all-inclusive resorts Secrets Resorts & Spas

Core: Club opens at 66 East 55th Street, New York CORE: Club, New York

St. Regis Residences launch St. Regis Residences

The Resort at Paws Up opens on 37,000 acres in Montana — glamping enters American luxury

Steve Wynn opens Wynn Las Vegas, his first house under his own name Wynn Resorts

Core Club opens in New York as a members' club without a dress code or a golf course CORE: Club

Beverly and Dereck Joubert found Great Plains Conservation Great Plains Conservation

Aqua Expeditions launches river cruising on the Peruvian Amazon Aqua Expeditions

Andaz launches in Liverpool Street, London Andaz

Bagatelle opens in the Meatpacking District Bagatelle

SLS opens in Beverly Hills under sbe SLS

Ian Schrager and Marriott launch EDITION EDITION

Robert De Niro opens the Greenwich Hotel in Tribeca

Trump International opens its Las Vegas tower Trump International Hotels

CityCenter opens as a record-setting resort, residential and retail complex MGM Resorts International

Casa Tua opens as a members' club and hotel in Miami Beach

Amangiri opens in the Utah desert, built into the rock by Wendell Burnette, Rick Joy and Marwan Al-Sayed

Primland opens on 12,000 acres of the Blue Ridge, developed by Didier Primat

Ritz-Carlton Reserve opens its first house, Phulay Bay in Krabi Ritz-Carlton Reserve

Montage Residences launch Montage Residences

Auberge Residences launch Auberge Residences

Marriott launches Autograph Collection for independent houses Autograph Collection Hotels

The Ranch at Rock Creek opens on 6,600 acres in Montana

Brush Creek Ranch opens in Wyoming on a working cattle ranch

The Cosmopolitan opens on the Strip The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas

Major Food Group founded Major Food Group

Magee Homestead opens beside Brush Creek as an adults-only ranch

Andrew Zobler and Sydell open the first NoMad, in a Broadway building NoMad Hotels

Historic Hotels Worldwide launches as the international arm of the American programme Historic Hotels Worldwide

First Nobu Hotel opens at Caesars Palace Nobu Restaurants

The first Nobu Hotel opens at Caesars Palace Nobu Hospitality

NeueHouse opens in New York, a workspace built as a members' club NeueHouse

The Battery opens in San Francisco The Battery

The LINE opens in Koreatown, Los Angeles The LINE Hotels

Marriott opens a new Ritz-Carlton Bali at Nusa Dua, six years after losing the original The Ritz-Carlton

Marriott launches Tribute Portfolio for independent hotels Tribute Portfolio

Barry Sternlicht opens the first 1 Hotel at South Beach 1 Hotels

Spa de La Mer opens at the Baccarat Hotel New York — La Mer's first spa anywhere Spa de La Mer

Waldorf Astoria Residences launch Waldorf Astoria Residences

Ralph Lauren opens the first Ralph's Coffee above the Fifth Avenue store Ralph's Coffee

Hyatt launches The Unbound Collection The Unbound Collection by Hyatt

Michael Fuerstman opens the first Pendry in San Diego Pendry Hotels & Resorts

Marriott completes its acquisition of Starwood on 23 September for about $13.6 bn — the largest hotel merger to that point Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide

Brickell City Centre opens its first phase on 3 November — a Hong Kong podium-and-towers pattern in Miami, under a $30 m canopy that catches the sea breeze Brickell City Centre, Miami

Brian De Lowe and Brad Korzen open the first Proper in San Francisco Proper Hotels

Ian Schrager opens PUBLIC on the Lower East Side PUBLIC Hotels

Habitas opens at Tulum, built to be dismantled without trace Our Habitas

Nobu Residences are announced in Toronto — the restaurant brand becomes a home Nobu Residences

Dan Friedkin buys Auberge Resorts Collection Auberge Resorts Collection

21c Museum Hotel opens in Bentonville — a contemporary art museum with rooms, in a town of 50,000 21c Museum Hotels

Hyatt completes the Two Roads Hospitality acquisition on 30 November for a revised $405 m — the management agreements of 74 hotels, not their buildings Hyatt Hotels Corporation

LXR Hotels & Resorts launches as Hilton's collection of independents LXR Hotels & Resorts

Sheldon Chalet opens on a nunatak inside Denali, reached only by ski plane

Sebastien Silvestri becomes the first chief executive of the Dinex Group Daniel Boulud / The Dinex Group

Sensei Lānai opens on Larry Ellison's island, a Four Seasons house given over to wellbeing

Hilton launches Signia as its meetings-led luxury line Signia by Hilton

Impression by Secrets launches as a resort-within-a-resort Impression by Secrets

Equinox opens its first hotel at Hudson Yards, built around sleep and training Equinox Hotels

The Ritz-Carlton announces a Private Jet programme

The Lodge at Blue Sky opens on a Utah ranch that rehabilitates rescued horses

Hyatt launches Destination by Hyatt from the Two Roads acquisition Destination by Hyatt

Zero Bond opens at 0 Bond Street in October, with photography banned Zero Bond

Resorts World opens on the Las Vegas Strip, the first new resort there in a decade Resorts World Las Vegas

The Ritz-Carlton Yacht Collection sails its first voyage aboard Evrima after four years of delay The Ritz-Carlton Yacht Collection

Aman New York opens in the Crown Building on Fifth Avenue

Mohari buys Tao Group for £441m Tao Group Hospitality

Core: moves to 711 Fifth Avenue in September — 60,000 sq ft, lobby by Peter Marino CORE: Club, New York

Amar Lalvani is named president and creative director of Hyatt’s Lifestyle group at the Standard closing Amar Lalvani

Jack Penrod dies on 3 February, aged 85 Nikki Beach Clubs

Hyatt completes the disposal of the Playa real estate by 30 December for about $2 bn, keeping fifty-year management agreements on thirteen of fourteen properties Hyatt Hotels Corporation

The Waldorf Astoria reopens after eight years with 375 rooms of its original 1,416 Waldorf Astoria New York