1890s

Le Voltaire opens on the quai, in the house where Voltaire died

The Imperial Hotel opens in Tokyo; Frank Lloyd Wright's building follows in 1923

The Imperial Hotel opens at Hibiya on 3 November as the guesthouse of Japan

Peck becomes official supplier to the Italian Crown

Sir Donald Currie of the Union-Castle line buys the Cape Town land to build a hotel for his own passengers

Chateau Lake Louise opens as a one-storey chalet, built by the Canadian Pacific

The Imperial Hotel opens in Tokyo; Frank Lloyd Wright's building follows in 1923

Augusta Victoria sails from Cuxhaven on 22 January for a fifty-seven-night Mediterranean voyage — the first pleasure cruise, conceived by Albert Ballin of HAPAG

Reid's Palace opens on the cliffs at Funchal, built by William Reid

The Bristol opens in Vienna opposite the opera

The Saint James is built in Paris as a foundation for scholars; it becomes a hotel in 1986

Louis Thomas Leonowens, son of Anna Leonowens, becomes proprietor of the Oriental

Pera Palace opens in Constantinople for passengers off the Orient Express

Villa Feltrinelli is built at Gargnano; Mussolini is held there in 1943

Anna Sacher takes the hotel after her husband's death and runs it for thirty-eight years

Café Sperl — the Vienna room that never modernised

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

The American Bar opens at the Savoy — the oldest surviving cocktail bar in Britain

The Savoy opens in Florence on the Piazza della Repubblica

Bader and Kahn open a 70 m² shop on the rue La Fayette

The Caruso opens at Ravello in the eleventh-century Palazzo d'Afflitto

Schloss Friedrichshof is completed for Empress Victoria at Kronberg

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

Ritz opens Le Grand-Hôtel in Rome on 11 January — the first hotel in the world with a private bathroom in every room

An earthquake collapses much of the Grand Bazaar; the rebuilding changes its architecture permanently

Villa Rothschild is built at Königstein for Wilhelm Carl von Rothschild

The New York Palace opens in Budapest as an insurance building with the Café New York below

Santo Mauro is built in Madrid for the Duke of Santo Mauro; it becomes a hotel in 1991

César Ritz opens Le Grand-Hôtel in Rome on 11 January — reportedly the first hotel with a private bathroom in every room

Falaknuma is completed at Hyderabad and later passes to the Nizam

Tremont House razed

Ritz and Escoffier form the Ritz Hotel Development Company while still employed by the Savoy

The Hermitage opens at Monte-Carlo, its winter garden by Gustave Eiffel

The Royal opens in Budapest for the millennium of Hungary

Caspar Badrutt opens Badrutt's Palace in St. Moritz on 29 July, architects Chiodera and Tschudi

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

Both are dismissed from the Savoy over missing wine and spirits

The Volkhardt family takes the Bayerischer Hof in Munich

The Nagycsarnok opens in Budapest on 15 March, commissioned by the mayor and built by Samu Pecz to replace the open markets — and is attacked at once because prices rose

Friedrich Haerlin buys the Hamburg house that becomes the Vier Jahreszeiten

The Amsterdam bank building opens; it becomes the Sweelinck conservatory and then the Conservatorium hotel in 2011

Ritz and Escoffier buy the Hôtel de Gramont and Hôtel Crozat on the Place Vendôme

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

The Berkeley opens at Piccadilly; it moves to Knightsbridge in 1972

The Hotelbetriebs-Aktiengesellschaft is founded in Berlin; Kempinski takes its name in 1953

The Ritz Paris opens on the Place Vendôme

The Balchug opens in Moscow facing the Kremlin across the river

Arthur Million expands Le Meurice; a stray greyhound becomes the house emblem

Claridge's is rebuilt by the D'Oyly Carte company and reopens

Ritz and Escoffier take the Carlton, London

The Old Cataract opens at Aswan for Thomas Cook's Nile passengers

Louis Fouquet opens a coachman's bar at the Champs-Élysées; the hotel follows in 2006

The Lido Palace opens at Riva del Garda

HAPAG commissions Blohm & Voss to build the Prinzessin Victoria Luise, the first ship in history built as a cruise ship and nothing else

Thomas Cook builds the Cataract at Aswan for his own passengers

The Raffles main building opens on 18 November with 102 rooms and a 500-seat dining salon

The Mount Nelson opens on 6 March — the first hotel in South Africa with hot and cold running water

The Mount Nelson becomes the unofficial British headquarters of the Second Boer War; Churchill reports from it

The Dolder Grand opens above Zurich as a curhouse