1920s

Otto Buchinger opens his first fasting clinic after curing himself by fasting

The Repulse Bay Hotel opens in Hong Kong; it closes in 1982

Badrutt's Palace installs the Engadin's first hotel lift and first telephone box

Paul Roux, a farmer's son, opens the café-bar Chez Robinson at Saint-Paul-de-Vence

Charles Cottar establishes the first professional safari outfit in East Africa

The Ritz Paris bar is opened by Frank Meier; it is renamed for Hemingway in 1994

The Hotel Casino Carrasco opens in Montevideo on 4 February

The Cambon bar opens at the Ritz Paris; women are made to wait outside in the Dog House

Jay Arthur Pritzker is born in Chicago on 26 August

The Dalat Palace opens in the Vietnamese highlands as a French hill station hotel

Louis Alexandre Raimon is born at Saint-Tropez; he apprentices in Cannes at sixteen

Howard Carter opens the tomb of Tutankhamun in November; the first modern tourism boom of the Middle East follows

Raffles Hotels' forerunner era; the brand is revived under Accor from 2016

The Polana opens at Lourenço Marques, by Herbert Baker

Statler buys an entire block on Niagara Square, betting Buffalo's civic centre will move there, and buys and closes his main rival to guarantee the trade

La Mamounia opens at Marrakech in the sultan's wedding-gift gardens

Harry MacElhone buys the bar and gives it his name

The first food counter inside a department store opens at Le Bon Marché

Frank Lloyd Wright’s Imperial opens on 1 September, the day of the Great Kantō Earthquake, and survives it damaged — the legend hardens faster than the fact

La Grande Épicerie opens within Le Bon Marché

The Copacabana Palace opens in Rio with its casino, by Joseph Gire

Hippolyte Jammet buys the Castellane mansion on the Faubourg Saint-Honoré

The Copacabana Palace opens on 13 August, eleven months after the centenary it was built for

Palm Court opens at the Chosun — recorded by the company as Korea’s first French restaurant

The Gateway of India is completed, twenty-one years after the Taj it stands beside

Gleneagles opens in Perthshire, built by the Caledonian Railway

French bombardment damages the Damascus souq during the Great Syrian Revolt

Abdulaziz Ibn Saud enters Jeddah in December and takes Bayt Nassif as his residence for about ten years

The Majestic opens on the Saigon riverfront

Le Bristol opens in April, named for the 4th Earl of Bristol

The Dallas Hilton opens — the first hotel to carry the Hilton name

Wildflower Hall is built at Mashobra as Lord Kitchener's residence

Hemingway names Harry's in The Sun Also Rises

The Surrey opens on the Upper East Side

A category four hurricane hits Miami Beach on 18 September while Fisher is at Montauk; Miami Beach was the security for the Montauk financing and both go

The Hôtel Barrière Le Majestic opens on the Croisette, built by Théo Petit — the house that later carries the U Spa, now the Spa Diane Barrière; ⚑ the spa’s own opening year is not established

The Majestic opens at Cannes

The Varty and Taylor families buy the land that becomes Londolozi

Caviar Kaspia opens at 17 place de la Madeleine

The Principe di Savoia opens in Milan on the Piazza della Repubblica

The Country Club opens at Lima in the Spanish colonial manner

The Tannenhof opens at St Anton am Arlberg

Hotel New Grand opens at Yokohama and goes on to author three dishes of Japanese everyday cooking

Jean and Madeleine Carette open their tea room on the place du Trocadéro

J. Willard and Alice Marriott open a nine-seat root beer stand in Washington in May

The Carlyle opens on Madison Avenue

Thirty-eight European hoteliers meet and form the Luxury Hotels of Europe and Egypt; it becomes The Leading Hotels of the World

The Hay-Adams opens on Lafayette Square facing the White House

Le Royal Monceau opens on the avenue Hoche

Castello del Sole opens at Ascona on its own farm

Monte-Carlo Beach opens on the Riviera shore under the SBM

The Schneider family opens the Almhof at Lech

The Hôtel George V opens on its avenue, financed by Joel Hillman at $31m

The Peninsula opens in Tsim Sha Tsui, built by the Kadoorie family

Hans Badrutt buys the Chesa Veglia to save it from demolition

Switzerland's first Olympic-sized outdoor pool is built in the Gstaad Palace grounds

The Peninsula opens in Tsim Sha Tsui

The Alfonso XIII opens in Seville for the Ibero-American Exposition

The Cloister opens at Sea Island, built by Howard Coffin and designed by Addison Mizner

Spain opens its first parador, at Gredos, on the king's initiative

Burgh Island Hotel opens off the Devon coast, built by Archibald Nettlefold — art deco on a tidal island reached by sea tractor

The Chateau Marmont opens on Sunset Boulevard, modelled on a Loire château

Victor Sassoon opens the Cathay on the Shanghai Bund

The Miramare opens at Santa Margherita Ligure

Adan Diehl opens the Hotel Formentor on Mallorca

Intourist is founded on 12 April — ⚑ hospitality becomes an instrument of foreign policy, and by 1937 holds 27 hotels and 2,778 rooms that Soviet citizens may not enter

Victor Sassoon opens the Cathay Hotel on the Bund — the house that made the waterfront, and now the Fairmont Peace Hotel

Both Astor hotels are demolished for the Empire State Building

Emmanuel Martinez opens the Hôtel Martinez on the Croisette

Le Royal opens in Phnom Penh

The Tschuggen opens at Arosa

Victor Sassoon opens the Cathay Hotel on the Shanghai Bund