⚑ The chapter on this country is at /chapters/vietnam/ — the argument and its sources; this page is the dated record it rests on.
1901
August: the Grand Metropole opens in Hanoi, the largest hotel in Indochina
1901
The Metropole opens in Hanoi, the first grand hotel of French Indochina
1912
Bến Thành opens on its present site in Saigon under the French administration Bến Thành Market
1922
The Dalat Palace is inaugurated, six years after construction began: altitude as the product
1922
The Dalat Palace opens in the Vietnamese highlands as a French hill station hotel
1925
The Majestic opens on the Saigon quay; the hotel own chronology attributes it to the Hui Bon Hoa company rather than to a patriarch personally, which puts Chinese-Vietnamese capital in the story beside the French institutions
1925
The Majestic opens on the Saigon riverfront
1954
The Metropole becomes Thong Nhat, a state house, and stays one for three decades
1986
Doi Moi: the Vietnamese coast was not empty but closed, and from this point it reopens to a second hospitality industry with different authors from the first
1999
4 December: Hoi An Ancient Town is inscribed by UNESCO with 844 listed buildings, preserved by the silting that stranded it economically
2006
The Nam Hai opens at Hoi An under GHM; Four Seasons takes it in 2016 — one building and two lineages, and the register keeps both dates
2006
The Nam Hai opens at Hoi An, Jaya Ibrahim's Vietnamese house
2011
The air-raid shelter beneath the Metropole bar, used in 1972, is rediscovered during construction
2018
Adrian Zecha opens Azerai at Luang Prabang, a return at eighty-five Azerai