1950s

Cap Estel opens on its own peninsula at Èze-sur-Mer

Pink Sands opens on Harbour Island

Cova moves to via Montenapoleone, into the future fashion quadrilateral

Kibbutzim begin running guesthouses as collective enterprises — members as staff, profits held in common

Gracie Fields builds La Canzone del Mare on a former fort at Marina Piccola, with a pool cut in the shape of Capri

Lucien Barrière takes the family casino business after François André

Hermine Bareiss opens her house at Baiersbronn

Doğuş Group is founded in Türkiye; its hospitality investments follow decades later

Le Bristol opens and gives its name to a political era, because the meetings are held in it

Charles Forte is principal caterer at the Festival of Britain, then takes London Airport

Beachcomber opens the Park Hotel at Curepipe — the first hotel company in Mauritius

Shepheard’s burns on 26 January in the Cairo fire

La Chèvre d'Or opens at Èze in the medieval village above the sea

La Ponche opens at Saint-Tropez in the fishermen's quarter

Grand Prince Hotel Takanawa opens on the site of the Takeda-no-miya residence, the first hotel built on land bought from a family stripped of its title

The Red Palace is built for King Saud — the first reinforced-concrete building in the country

Marriott goes public at $10.25 a share; the offering sells out in two hours

Paul Roux lies dying; Titine tells Picasso the house owns no work of his and returns with three paintings

Le Sirenuse opens at Positano, converted from the Sersale family's summer house

Rémy de Haenen builds Eden Rock on the rock at St Jean, St Barths

Round Hill opens in Jamaica, its cottages owned by Astaire, Kennedy and Hepburn

Dan Hotels opens its first house at Tel Aviv

Rudolf-August Oetker buys the Brenners Park-Hotel at Baden-Baden

Franco Sersale converts the family's Positano summer house into Le Sirenuse

The Metropole becomes Thong Nhat, a state house, and stays one for three decades

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

Cheval Blanc is classified Premier Grand Cru Classé A in the first Saint-Émilion classification

Alfonso von Hohenlohe opens the Marbella Club and invents the Costa del Sol season

Jacques Dessange opens his first salon in Paris, having been dismissed twelve times in a year

Traditions et Qualité is founded, later Les Grandes Tables du Monde

The Beijing Friendship Hotel opens for Soviet and other foreign experts — socialist international hospitality, the closest Chinese parallel to Intourist

Jacques Courtin-Clarins opens an institute at 35 rue Tronchet — a spa that became a cosmetics house

The Taittinger family acquires the Hôtel de Crillon

Marcel and Nelly Tilloy found Les Relais de Campagne on 12 May at Le Chapon Fin, Thoissey, with eight houses

Alfonso von Hohenlohe opens the Marbella Club — the aristocratic house party as a hotel

Charles Forte buys the Café Royal

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

The Fontainebleau opens at Miami Beach, designed by Morris Lapidus

Kerkorian makes his first gaming investment, a stake in the Dunes Hotel

Club 55 begins feeding the cast of Et Dieu… créa la femme at Pampelonne

Le Girelier opens on the port at Saint-Tropez

Akasaka Prince Hotel opens with thirty rooms on the former estate of Prince Yi Un, the last crown prince of Korea

Dalloyau creates the gâteau Opéra

Isadore Sharp works construction summers for his father in Toronto; Ray Kroc opens his first McDonald's franchise

Seibu opens the first Prince Hotel in Tokyo

Troisgros takes its first Michelin star

The Baalbeck International Festival begins staging performances inside a Roman temple complex

Vadim shoots And God Created Woman with Bardot; Saint-Tropez becomes a destination

Giuseppe Cipriani begins the Hotel Cipriani on the Giudecca, financed by three Guinness sisters

Adrian Zecha joins Time's Tokyo bureau, where the ryokan enters his idea of a hotel

The Divan opens in Istanbul, built by the Koç family

Jay Pritzker sees the Hyatt House beside Los Angeles International Airport in August and buys it; the family begins operating on 24 September

Jeanne Augier inherits the Negresco and holds it for sixty-two years

The Cantinetta Antinori opens in the family palazzo in Florence

The Falkensteiner family opens its first Austrian pension

The Amigo opens in Brussels beside the Grand-Place, in a former prison

The Hotel Ukraina opens in Moscow on 25 May with 1,026 rooms — the largest hotel in Europe, on ground that used to flood

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

The Eagle Club is founded on the Wasserngrat above Gstaad, the Earl of Warwick its first president and the Aga Khan among its founding members

André Godard begins the restoration that turns the Madar-e Shah into a hotel; it opens in 1966 as the Shah Abbas

Gaston Lenôtre buys a small bakery in the 16th arrondissement

Jay Pritzker buys the Hyatt House motel by Los Angeles airport — the first hotel of the group

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

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

The Earl of Warwick founds the Eagle Club on the Wasserngrat above Gstaad

The Twin Bridges Motor Hotel opens — Marriott's first

Michel Guérard receives the title Meilleur Ouvrier de France in pastry

The Andreadis family opens the Astir Palace at Vouliagmeni

The Bocca family opens the first Sina house in Italy

Harry MacElhone dies; most of the bar's cocktail claims date from after this

The Astir Palace opens at Vouliagmeni; Four Seasons takes it in 2019

EPAD is created by decree on 9 September; the CNIT is inaugurated three days later and Malraux says nothing like it has been built since the Gothic cathedrals

Gulfstream is founded as a division of Grumman

Dan Hotels acquires and restores the King David

Guests arrive at the Hotel Cipriani two years after work began on the Giudecca

Gravetye Manor opens as a hotel in William Robinson's Elizabethan house and garden

Omni's forerunner Dunfey Hotels begins in New Hampshire

Donald N. Pritzker takes over management of the Hyatt hotel business

Jim Thompson assembles his house in Bangkok from six traditional teak structures brought from Ayutthaya

The Gardena Grödnerhof opens at Ortisei

The Casino du Liban opens at Maameltein — the Levant’s answer to Monte-Carlo

Charles Forte opens Britain's first full motorway service station at Newport Pagnell