2000s6 events
The FIFA World Cup, Qatar 2022
2022 · Qatar · LHL-S-400
the densest case in this volume: LHL-H-627 Raffles and Fairmont at Katara Towers, Zulal, The Ned Doha and The Chedi Katara all opened to one date · a country’s hospitality landscape made unrecognisa
Expo 2020 Dubai
2020 · United Arab Emirates · LHL-S-399
the highest hotel occupancy Dubai had recorded in fifteen years, and the moment the emirate’s inventory was absorbed rather than merely built
The FIFA World Cup, Russia 2018
2018 · Russia · LHL-S-409
the hotel stock of eleven cities raised to a standard in four years
The Winter Olympic Games, Sochi 2014
2014 · Russia · LHL-S-401
built LHL-S-395 Krasnaya Polyana as a mountain resort cluster where there had been a village
The Abu Dhabi Grand Prix
2009 · United Arab Emirates · LHL-S-410
the only recurring event in this volume, admitted because LHL-168 Yas Island was built around a circuit and not the other way round
The Asian Games, Doha 2006
2006 · Qatar · LHL-S-402
the restoration of Souq Waqif was completed for these Games — the market was saved from demolition by a sporting deadline
1900s4 events
The Barcelona Olympic Games, 1992
1992 · Spain · LHL-S-403
the case every later city cited: a waterfront opened, a beach made, and the hotel stock of a city rebuilt around a fortnight
The Gulf Cooperation Council Summit, 1985
1985 · Oman · LHL-S-398
LHL-H-608 Al Bustan Palace exists because of this meeting, and the country’s luxury record begins with it · the earliest event in this volume and the clearest: a summit that left a palace
The Olympic Games, Tokyo 1964
1964 · Japan · LHL-S-408
the Hotel Okura and the first generation of Japanese international houses were built for it, and the Shinkansen opened days before
The Baalbeck International Festival
1956 · Lebanon · LHL-S-484
performances inside a Roman temple complex — admitted to the events volume because it built the hospitality of the Bekaa around itself and resumed after every interruption
1800s4 events
The Coronation of Nicholas II, 1896
1896 · Russia · LHL-S-407
the season for which Moscow’s grand hotels were built or enlarged
The World’s Columbian Exposition, 1893
1893 · United States · LHL-S-404
the origin of the exposition as a builder of hotels, and of the modern convention trade
The Paris Exposition Universelle, 1889
1889 · France · LHL-S-406
the Eiffel Tower and, with it, the first mass tourist season a European capital had to plan for
The Great Exhibition, 1851
1851 · United Kingdom · LHL-S-405
the first event to bring more visitors to a city than it could house, and the reason the purpose-built railway hotel exists
⚑ A festival that fills rooms is not here; a tournament that leaves a district behind is. The risk of this volume is that it becomes a calendar, and that test is what prevents it. The same dates appear in the Library’s chronology, where a house cannot link to them — which is why they now carry codes.