1970s

Kerkorian sells the International to Hilton; it becomes the Las Vegas Hilton

Rudolf von Schönburg becomes general manager of the Marbella Club and stays fifty years

Tjandra Kusuma and his three sons found the Mulia Group in construction and building materials

Hotel Bora Bora builds fifteen overwater bungalows and makes the format world-famous ⚑ the hotel is often credited with inventing it three years too early

Hotel Bora Bora builds bungalows on stilts over the lagoon; the format becomes the island's signature

Maçakızı begins at Bodrum as a small pension and becomes the Aegean's social address

Merchants leave Al Balad for the new districts along the coast; the coral tower houses begin to fail

Khalaf Al Habtoor builds his first hotel in Dubai

Carlo Cinque opens Il San Pietro on the cliff below Positano, with no sign at the door

The Grand Hôtel de Cala Rossa opens in Corsica under the Canarelli family

David Mancuso holds the first Loft party, 'Love Saves the Day', on Valentine's Day

HAPAG merges with Norddeutscher Lloyd after a rivalry of 113 years, and transatlantic passenger service ends

The government creates Qatar National Hotels to run one hotel — ⚑ the state makes the hospitality company a year before the country has a five-star house

Warren Titus becomes founding president of Royal Viking Line, moving the hotel-at-sea from the liner to the smaller ship

Nadaman opens inside the Imperial Hotel Tokyo

David Mancuso's Loft parties begin in New York — the ancestor of the modern dance floor

Hapag-Lloyd is formed from the merger of HAPAG, founded 1847, and Norddeutscher Lloyd

Robert Burns founds Regent International Hotels with the Tokyu Group

Jaisal Singh's parents and his uncle Valmik Thapar buy land on the edge of Ranthambhore

Forte Village opens in southern Sardinia

Japan Airlines opens the first Hotel Nikko

Le Pot-au-Feu receives a second Michelin star

Hacienda Na Xamena opens on the north cliffs of Ibiza

Shang Palace opens with the first Shangri-La, in Singapore

The first Starbucks opens in Pike Place Market

Elounda Beach opens in Crete

Jimmy'z opens beneath the Sporting d'été on 9 July, entry by club card only

The Gstaad Palace opens GreenGo, the village’s first real nightclub, its dance floor built over an indoor pool — ⚑ the year is derived from a 2017 account calling the club forty-five years old and is not sourced directly

Robert Kuok founds Shangri-La in Hong Kong — the first Asian luxury hotel brand to compete internationally on its own terms

For the 2,500-year celebration a tent city receives heads of state at Persepolis, and three hotels open to the same deadline — the InterContinental at Tehran, the Cyrus at Shiraz and the Darius at Persepolis

Lenôtre opens his cooking school at Plaisir

Mick and Bianca Jagger marry at the Byblos

GreenGo opens beneath the Gstaad Palace on 22 January, interior by Teo Jakob — unchanged since

The Daktylides family opens Sani Beach Club in Halkidiki

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

Robert Kuok opens the first Shangri-La in Singapore

The HRH Group is formed by the Mewar family of Udaipur

Ng Teng Fong's Far East Organization begins its Singapore hotel portfolio

Roberto Wirth becomes the fourth generation at the Hassler in Rome

Donald Pritzker dies at 39, after thirteen years in which Hyatt grew to 26 hotels

George Corbin lands at Hulhulé on 16 February with nineteen Italians — the first tourist group to reach the Maldives, hosted in three houses in Malé by Mohamed Umar Maniku, Hussain Afeef and Ahmed Naseem

Kurumba Village opens on Vihamanaafushi on Tuesday 3 October — the first resort in the Maldives: thirty beachfront rooms of coral stone, coconut timber and palm thatch, and a brackish-water shower

Yang Bingyi gives half his cooking-oil shop over to xiaolongbao — Din Tai Fung

The Pestana Carlton Madeira opens in November — the group's first hotel

Air France founds Le Méridien as a home away from home for its passengers

The Oriental joins Mandarin International and gives the group its name

Mohamed Umar Maniku opens Kurumba, the Maldives' first resort

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

Baros opens in December with twenty-eight sand-floor thatched cabanas, the third resort in the Maldives and the first of the six islands the government released for tourism that year

Ricardo Urgell founds Pacha

The Grand Hotel opens in Taipei on the site of a Shinto shrine, built for Madame Chiang

Punta Tragara opens at Capri in a house built by Le Corbusier's client Emilio Vismara

Pacha Ibiza opens at Ses Feixes, built to look like a finca

Lord and Lady Macdonald open Kinloch Lodge on Skye

La Samanna opens on Baie Longue at St Martin

The Gulf Hotel opens, the first five-star house in Qatar, and its brutalist form becomes one of the recognisable buildings of Doha

Samsung takes over the state guest house Yeongbingwan

SK Group acquires Walkerhill; a Sheraton franchise follows in 1978 with a 538-room tower and casino

Guérard moves to Eugénie-les-Bains; the property takes the name Les Prés d’Eugénie and the restaurant receives one Michelin star

Henri Chenot first applies the method at the general hospital in Cannes

Michel and Christine Guérard open Les Prés d'Eugénie at Eugénie-les-Bains

Ireland’s Blue Book is founded by eleven country houses

Le Cirque opens at the Mayfair House Hotel, New York

Jimmy'z moves beneath the new Monte-Carlo Sporting Club with its Japanese lagoon

The Holiday Inn opens in Beirut; within a year it is a battlefield, and its shell is still standing fifty years later

Sazanka-sō becomes Nadaman's head branch, in the Hotel New Otani's samurai garden

Dave and John Varty take over Londolozi and begin restoring the land

Casa de Campo opens in the Dominican Republic, designed by Oscar de la Renta

Baglioni opens its first hotel in Florence

Les Prés d’Eugénie receives a second star; Grande Cuisine Minceur is formalised in the thermal setting

Muhammad Nassif turns the house into a private library of 16,000 books, open to anyone who calls on him

The Daskalantonakis family opens the first Grecotel

Constance opens Le Prince Maurice era in Mauritius ⚑ founding given variously

José Koechlin founds Inkaterra in Peru, one of the earliest ecotourism companies

Teritoria begins as a French association of producer-led hotels and restaurants

Le Girelier is trading on the Saint-Tropez port — ⚑ the house gives its own age as more than fifty years in French and as over a decade in its own English translation, and the trade press says fifteen; the year here is the earliest those claims allow and is not established

Peter Sellers and Blake Edwards film part of The Return of the Pink Panther in GreenGo, and Sellers falls into the pool under the dance floor

The civil war begins; the hotel district becomes a front line and the phase is named the Battle of the Hotels. ⚑ Château Musar goes on making wine and misses only two vintages in fifteen years

Arab International Hotels Company is founded; it signs with Marriott the following year

ITC enters hotels

Casino Carrasco declared a national historic monument

Michael Kadoorie takes the chair of The Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels

Guérard appears on the cover of Time on 9 February and publishes La Grande Cuisine Minceur

The d'Ornano family take over the house that becomes Sisley

Antonio Escohotado leases a farmhouse at San Rafael and opens what becomes Amnesia

Dionísio Pestana arrives from South Africa at twenty-four to save the hotel his father was ready to abandon after the Carnation Revolution

Charles Ritz dies; his widow Monique takes the Ritz Paris

James Sherwood buys the Hotel Cipriani for £900,000 — the origin of Belmond

Gracie Fields hands the Canzone del Mare restaurant to Luigi Iacono

James Sherwood buys Hotel Cipriani — the origin of Belmond

Sandy and Kreis Beall open Blackberry Farm in the Tennessee foothills

Pan Pacific opens its first hotel in Singapore

Les Prés d’Eugénie receives three Michelin stars

Ayla Emiroğlu opens a sixteen-room pension in Bodrum — Maçakızı

The Spy Who Loved Me is filmed at Cala di Volpe and fixes the Costa Smeralda in the popular imagination

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

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

Bukhara opens at the ITC Maurya; its menu barely changes for fifty years

Pio Galligani and Enrica del Rosso open Paper Moon on via Bagutta, Milan

Le Petit Nice takes its first Michelin star

Mohamed Umar Maniku and his brother Ahmed Umar Maniku consolidate their interests as Universal Enterprises (Private) Limited ⚑

Adam Tihany opens his New York design studio

John and Harry Mariani buy Castello Banfi at Montalcino

Le Palace opens on 1 March with Grace Jones singing La Vie en Rose

Les Bains Douches opens in the 1885 Guerbois baths, interiors by Philippe Starck

Roland Barthes reviews Le Palace for Vogue Hommes as a total art

Richard Branson flies to the British Virgin Islands looking for somewhere to house his record label’s artists, and buys Necker Island instead

Alfred Akirov founds Alrov, which will build Mamilla

The Hyatt Crown partly opens at Tehran; Hyatt’s management ends the following year and the building becomes the Parsian Azadi

The Oetker family buys Le Bristol

Anouska Hempel opens Blakes in South Kensington — the first designer hotel

John and Harry Mariani buy Castello Banfi at Montalcino

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

Jay and Cindy Pritzker establish the Pritzker Architecture Prize through the Hyatt Foundation

Costas Spiliadis opens the first Milos in Montreal

Cecconi's opens in Mayfair

Pierre-Yves Rochon opens his Paris studio

Neal's Yard Dairy opens in Covent Garden and begins buying from named farmhouse makers

Natura Bissé is founded in Barcelona

Richard Branson buys Necker Island; Virgin Limited Edition grows from it

The Daktylides family opens the first Myconian house

Khalaf Al Habtoor opens the Metropolitan Hotel — a local entrepreneur building hotels twenty years before the landmark projects

The Shilla opens on the Namsan slope on 8 March, built around the state guest house

The international operators leave; the Hilton becomes the Esteghlal and the Hyatt the Azadi

Hamed El Chiaty founds Travco — an integrated tourism platform rather than a hotel company

The Ritz family sells the Ritz Paris to Mohamed Al-Fayed and his brothers

Richard Branson buys Necker Island for £180,000 at twenty-eight

Sol Kerzner opens Sun City in the Pilanesberg

Lotte opens its first hotel in Seoul

The Shilla opens in Seoul on the former state guest house grounds

Caroline Rose Hunt founds Rosewood in Dallas

Roberto Sciò takes Il Pellicano at Porto Ercole