1960s

Marlon Brando climbs a Tahitian peak on a day off from Mutiny on the Bounty and sees Tetiaroa on the horizon

An international airport opens on Tahiti, putting French Polynesia within reach of jet travel

The Aga Khan first visits the Gallura coast in December, after a British banker returns from sailing Sardinia with stories of it

The Capri Palace opens at Anacapri

Santa Marina opens on Ornos bay at Mykonos

The Schneider family's Hotel Arlberg opens at Lech

The Trofana Royal opens at Ischgl

Laurance Rockefeller takes a 99-year lease on Parker Ranch land at Kauna‘oa Bay — no road, no power, no fresh water

Jean-Prosper Gay-Para hears of Byblos in Beirut and resolves to build one at Saint-Tropez

Hotel Bora Bora opens as the island's first large hotel — eighteen thatched huts by Hammarberg and Herman on a point between Pofai Bay and Matira Beach

Hotel Bora Bora opens with eighteen thatched huts at Pointe Raititi — the island's first hotel

Marlon Brando arrives to film Mutiny on the Bounty and meets his Polynesian co-star Tarita Teriipaia

The Palace Hotel opens facing the Imperial Palace moat in Tokyo

Castillo Son Vida opens in a thirteenth-century Mallorcan castle

Sugar Beach opens between the Pitons

Biki calls Aldo Coppola to do the hair for her show at Palazzo Pitti; the same year is given for the first layered cut

The Phoenicia opens, by Edward Durell Stone, with an underwater window from the pool into the bar — the most copied idea in Middle Eastern hotels

Isadore Sharp opens the Four Seasons Motor Hotel on Jarvis Street, Toronto — 125 rooms on an unfashionable street

Isadore Sharp opens the Four Seasons Motor Hotel in Toronto

Sandy Lane opens in Barbados, built by Ronald Tree

Three Californians whose vanilla crop had failed buy a run-down Moorea property in March and name it Hotel Bali Hai after Michener

Brando marries Tarita Teriipaia, his co-star in Mutiny on the Bounty

The Consorzio Costa Smeralda is formed at Olbia on 14 March by the Aga Khan with Patrick Guinness, Felix Bigio, John Duncan Miller, André Ardoin and René Podbielski ⚑ the land is given as 1,800, 3,114, 4,000 and 5,000 hectares across sources

The consortium's building code fixes the rule the destination is built on: no building may rise above the height of the surrounding vegetation

The Corinthia Palace opens in Malta; the Pisani family builds the group from it

Alfred Pisani and his family found Corinthia in Malta; the first house at Attard opens as a restaurant

Hotel Okura opens, Yoshirō Taniguchi’s lobby becoming the international shorthand for Japanese restraint

InterContinental Jordan opens at Amman — the country’s first international five-star house

The Royal Tehran Hilton opens, by Heydar Ghiai with Raglan Squire — international modernism arrives in the capital

Sol Kerzner buys the Astra, a run-down inn in Durban — his first house

Le Rosay and the Gstaad winter season draw the international set to the Palace

Il Pellicano opens at Porto Ercole, built by Patsy Daszel and Michael Graham

The Okura opens in Tokyo, built for the 1964 Olympics with the Orient's own modernism

The Ocean Club opens on Paradise Island, built by Huntington Hartford

The Okura opens in Tokyo and gives the group its name

Il Pellicano opens at Porto Ercole; the Sciò family takes it in 1979

The Okura opens in Tokyo, the house Baron Kishichiro Okura's family built

Adán Diehl builds La Residencia at Deià on Mallorca

Mark Birley opens Annabel's at 44 Berkeley Square on 4 June

The Leali family opens the Villa Feltrinelli's forerunner at Gargnano

Hotel Cala di Volpe opens in July, built by Jacques Couëlle as a Mediterranean fishing village

Olbia airport is reopened and renamed Olbia-Costa Smeralda; the Aga Khan founds the Alisarda airline to serve it

La Scogliera opens on the rocks at Forte dei Marmi

The Mandarin opens in Hong Kong; the Oriental Bangkok joins in 1974 to form the group

Lee Byung-chull of Samsung acquires the Seoul store and renames it Shinsegae

Grand Walkerhill opens at Achasan, built by the state so that United Nations troops would take their leave in Korea rather than in Japan

Mohan Singh Oberoi's group is by now the largest Indian-owned hotel company

The Aga Khan founds the Costa Smeralda consortium in Sardinia

Hotel Pitrizza and the Cervo Hotel open in August; Luigi Vietti's Porto Cervo village is completed

The racial covenants Morse wrote into the Pebble Beach deeds are dropped as unenforceable after the Civil Rights Act

Gilbert Bécaud releases “Nathalie” in May, naming a Café Pushkin in Moscow that does not exist; French visitors spend the next thirty-five years looking for it

Gilbert Bécaud releases “Nathalie” in May, naming a café in Moscow that does not exist

Gilbert Bécaud sings of a Café Pouchkine in Nathalie — a place that does not exist

Tokyo Prince Hotel opens on ground that held the graves of Tokugawa shoguns, whose bodies were moved to Zōjō-ji

Hotel New Otani opens for the Tokyo Olympic Games

Sol Kerzner builds the Beverly Hills at Umhlanga Rocks — South Africa's first five-star hotel

The Beatles stay at the George V during their Paris Olympia run and write in a suite with a piano

Marlene Dietrich performs at the Gstaad Palace on 15 February; the gala season makes the hotel's name

NetJets pioneers fractional aircraft ownership as Executive Jet Aviation

Sofitel opens its first hotel at Strasbourg

Meadowood opens in the Napa Valley

The New Otani opens in Tokyo for the Olympic Games

Guérard takes over and renames Le Pot-au-Feu at Asnières-sur-Seine

The Capezzone family opens their first Corsican house

Hotel Romazzino opens in the summer, built by the Rank Organisation and later sold to the Aga Khan

Laurance Rockefeller opens Mauna Kea Beach Hotel on the Kohala coast

Spyros Kokotos opens Elounda Mare, the first Greek hotel with private-pool bungalows

José and Manuel Pestana acquire the Hotel Atlântico at Funchal ⚑ founder attribution varies across sources

Mauna Kea Beach Hotel opens in July with 154 rooms for $15 million, the most expensive hotel built to that date, and the first art collection assembled for any hotel anywhere

Laurance Rockefeller opens Mauna Kea Beach Hotel in July for $15 m — the most expensive hotel built to that date, with no televisions and no air-conditioning by design

Coppola opens his first atelier on Via Manzoni in Milan — ⚑ the company’s own home page dates itself to 1966 instead

Edward Charles Bassett’s Mauna Kea opens, open-air and ventilated by the trade winds, with the island’s first golf course by Robert Trent Jones Sr

Franz Xaver Mayr dies at ninety, having practised to the end

Construction begins on the Byblos in a Phoenician-Tropezian style

Fire destroys seventy buildings on the Bangkok riverfront; the Oriental is rebuilt

Spyros Kokotos builds Elounda Mare on Crete

After six years and a direct request to the president of France, Brando buys Tetiaroa for $270,000 from a nearly blind woman who moved about the island by wires strung between trees

Brando takes a 99-year lease on Tetiaroa, the twelve-motu atoll that had been the retreat of Tahitian royalty

Enrico and Bruna Cerea open Da Vittorio at Bergamo

Dessange puts his name on ten salons he does not work in — the hand, franchised

Lars-Eric Lindblad takes the first paying tourists to Antarctica, and to Galápagos the following year — the expedition cruise begins

Malliouhana opens at Anguilla

Chewton Glen opens in the New Forest

P.R.S. Oberoi opens the Oberoi Centre of Learning and Development

Hyatt Regency Atlanta opens as the first Hyatt Regency; John Portman’s 22-storey atrium establishes a new hotel typology

Le Pot-au-Feu receives its first Michelin star

Kurt Wachtveitl becomes general manager of the Oriental Bangkok and stays thirty-nine years

The Bali Hai Boys build three guest rooms on stilts over the lagoon at Raiatea — the first overwater bungalows, put up because the hotel had no beach

The Yacht Club Costa Smeralda is founded at Porto Cervo

Ricardo Urgell opens the first Pacha in Sitges

Les Caves du Roy opens beneath the Byblos in July; its creator sells the hotel on 19 September

Jet Aviation is founded at Basel; completions work follows from 1977

Hyatt Regency Atlanta opens with John Portman’s atrium, making a shared interior volume part of the hotel experience

RMS Queen Mary is retired to Long Beach and becomes a hotel, the first ship in this register to do so

The Golden Ring is designated as a tourist circuit — a Soviet invention applied to medieval ground

The Byblos is inaugurated on 27 May with Bardot and Mireille Darc among 700 guests

Les Caves du Roy opens in July

Gay-Para sells the Byblos to Sylvain Floirat in September, months after opening

William Heinecke founds his first companies at seventeen

Paul Dubrule and Gérard Pélisson open the first Novotel at Lille

Jocelyne and Jean-Louis Sibuet open their first house at Megève

Kerkorian sells Trans International Airlines to Transamerica; construction of the International begins

Guérard creates the salade gourmande, an early expression of his lighter cuisine

Troisgros takes three stars — held unbroken ever since

Fog in the valley keeps some 300 commercial flights from landing at Drake Field, the airport serving northwest Arkansas

Twelve American hoteliers form Preferred Hotels to compete with the chains

Petit St. Vincent opens in the Grenadines, its cottages summoned by flag

French radicals raid Fauchon on the Place de la Madeleine and distribute its foie gras to the poor

French radicals raid Fauchon and distribute its foie gras to the poor

Michael Chow opens Mr Chow in Knightsbridge on 14 February — Beijing food, Italian waiters, no chopsticks

Colin Tennant develops Mustique after buying the island for £45,000 in 1958

Hyatt Regency Hong Kong becomes Hyatt’s first hotel outside the United States

The International Hotel opens in Las Vegas with about 1,500 rooms at a cost of $55m — then the largest hotel in the world; Barbra Streisand headlines the opening, Elvis Presley follows

Schlosshotels und Herrenhäuser is formed to market castles and manor houses opened as hotels