1900s

The Michelin Guide is first published — free, with travel tips and listings

The Continental opens in Oslo; the Brochmann family holds it still

The Teutonia Club opens in Singapore; it becomes the Goodwood Park hotel in 1929

Villa Cortine opens at Sirmione on Lake Garda

Mitsukoshi abolishes the zauri system and turns Nihonbashi into display space

Therese Randlkofer's Dallmayr is appointed Purveyor to the Court

Villa Igiea is built at Palermo for the Florio family by Ernesto Basile

The Fustinoni family takes the Villa Serbelloni at Bellagio

Statler builds a temporary 2,100-room hotel of wood at the Buffalo Pan-American Exposition and is one of the few vendors to make a profit

Le Train Bleu opens inside the Gare de Lyon for the Exposition Universelle of 1900

Ver-o-Peso opens at Belém on the site of a 1625 weighing house, where the Amazon meets the Atlantic trade

The Bristol opens in Warsaw, part-owned by Ignacy Jan Paderewski

The Excelsior Palace opens at Rapallo on the Ligurian coast

The Cristallo opens at Cortina d'Ampezzo

Mayr takes his doctorate summa cum laude and formulates the Mayr cure

The Metropole opens in Hanoi, the first grand hotel of French Indochina

The Sarkies brothers open the Strand in Rangoon

The Moana opens at Waikiki, the first hotel on the beach

The Splendido opens at Portofino in a sixteenth-century monastery

La Guérite — the house's claim; other sources 1935

The Balmoral opens at Edinburgh Waverley as the North British Station Hotel

The American Colony opens in Jerusalem in a pasha's house

William Neatby tiles the Harrods meat hall for Doulton in nine weeks; a Viennese art journal compares it to a church

The pasha’s house on the Nablus road, bought by a religious community from Chicago, opens as the American Colony Hotel

The Sontag Hotel opens at Jeongdong, built with state funds for Antoinette Sontag on land given by Emperor Gojong — the first hotel coffee in Korea is served here

Harrods opens its food halls, tiled by W. J. Neatby

The Mount Washington opens in the White Mountains

Escoffier publishes Le Guide Culinaire, codifying cuisine classique and the kitchen brigade

Ada Coleman becomes head bartender of the American Bar, holding the post until 1926

The Park Hotel opens at Vitznau on Lake Lucerne

The Hotel National takes its first guests, built the year before to Alexander Ivanov’s design

Antoine Rumpelmayer opens Angelina on the rue de Rivoli

Mayr is appointed head of the Johannisbrunn hydropathic clinic

The Taj Mahal Palace opens on 16 December to seventeen guests, unfinished

The National opens opposite the Kremlin

Jamsetji Tata opens the Taj Mahal Palace at Apollo Bunder

Statler builds the Inside Inn at the St Louis exposition — 2,257 rooms, the largest hotel in the world, dismantled and sold for scrap afterwards

Le Mirador opens above Lake Geneva at Le Mont-Pèlerin

The Gambardella family opens Santa Caterina on the Amalfi coast

Les Crayères is built at Reims for the Pommery family; it opens as a hotel in 1983

Echigoya becomes Mitsukoshi, a department store

Mitsukoshi issues its Department Store Proclamation — the first department store in Japan

The Société du Louvre buys the Crillon mansion from the Polignac heirs to make it a hotel

The St. Regis opens on Fifth Avenue, built by John Jacob Astor IV

The St. Regis opens on Fifth Avenue, built by John Jacob Astor IV

Marchesi 1824 / Cova — Milan maisons in their present form ⚑

Villa Honegg opens above Lake Lucerne on the Bürgenstock

Korean merchants raise 100,000 won and found Gwangjang in July, watching Japan take Namdaemun — the country’s first permanent daily market, created as a protest

Adriano Telles opens A Brasileira on 19 November to sell Brazilian coffee by the kilo

Robert Steffen, a village schoolteacher, buys land at Gstaad after a railway is routed through the hamlet

The Metropol opens in Moscow, its façade carrying Vrubel's mosaic

The Ritz London opens on 24 May by Mewès and Davis — a steel frame and a private bathroom in every room

The Gresham Palace opens in Budapest as an insurance house; it becomes a hotel in 2004

The Montreux Palace opens on Lake Geneva

Pike Place Market opens in Seattle as a revolt against the middlemen raising food prices — farmers selling direct

The Bussaco Palace opens in Portugal, built as a royal hunting lodge

The Winter Palace opens at Luxor

Axel Munthe's Villa San Michele at Anacapri is completed; Capri becomes a destination for artists and writers

The Fairmont opens in San Francisco, a year after the earthquake

The Adlon opens in Berlin with the Kaiser present

The Plaza opens on Fifth Avenue at Central Park

The Fairmont opens in San Francisco, a year after the earthquake

Ellsworth Statler opens the Buffalo Statler on 18 January — a thousand rooms, a private bath in every one, and the first hotel chain

The Hôtel Majestic opens on the avenue Kléber; it reopens as The Peninsula Paris in 2014

The Hejaz Railway reaches Medina, compressing a journey that had been made by caravan for a thousand years and moving where the traveller stops

A Brasileira begins serving coffee by the cup; the bica follows

César Ritz registers the Ritz name as a brand in Paris and London

The Grand-Hôtel du Cap-Ferrat opens on its own peninsula

The Excelsior opens on the Venice Lido

The Waldhaus opens at Sils Maria, held by the same family since

Androuët opens in Paris and makes the cheese cellar a place customers enter

The Atlantic opens on the Aussenalster at Hamburg

The Hôtel Royal opens at Évian for the Empress of France

The Hôtel Royal opens at Évian above the lake

Harry Gordon Selfridge opens on Oxford Street with a Silence Room that sells nothing

Harry Gordon Selfridge opens on Oxford Street and puts cosmetics on the ground floor

The Hôtel de Crillon opens on 11 March, converted by Walter-André Destailleur

The Nara Hotel opens, built by the Japanese government railways