2010s

EAST opens in Hong Kong’s Island East on 25 January as Swire’s lifestyle brand

Thierry Dalais meets Jean-Christophe Peyre on Nosy Ankao, where Peyre’s seaweed farm is failing; the two conceive an island retreat that would pay for the archipelago’s protection

Nusret Gökçe opens his first steakhouse in Istanbul

Nine boutique hotels and eight restaurants open inside the souq's buildings — a market that generated hotels rather than the reverse

Nine boutique hotels and eight restaurants open inside the restored Souq Waqif, operated by Tivoli

Ritz-Carlton Reserve opens its first house, Phulay Bay in Krabi

Zoëtry launches as AMResorts' wellness line

Greg Marsh founds onefinestay in London to let private homes with hotel service

Radisson Collection launches as the group's luxury tier

Armani opens its first hotel in the Burj Khalifa, designed throughout by Giorgio Armani

Emaar Misr begins Marassi on the Egyptian north coast

Aldo Melpignano opens Borgo Egnazia in Puglia, built as an Apulian village

Captain Vassilis Constantakopoulos opens Costa Navarino after twenty-five years buying land

Michel Reybier opens La Réserve at Ramatuelle to a design by Jean-Michel Wilmotte

Il Salviatino opens at Fiesole in a fifteenth-century villa

Shangri-La opens in Prince Roland Bonaparte's Paris residence

Villa Treville opens at Positano in Franco Zeffirelli's house

The Burj Khalifa opens on 4 January, with Armani Dubai on thirty of its floors

Construction begins at Msheireb, rebuilding a historic quarter of Doha rather than inventing a new one

At-Turaif, the mud-brick citadel where the first Saudi state was founded, is inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List

The French State creates the Palace distinction

The Soneva Foundation trust deed is signed on 30 July

Les Bains Douches closes

The first Armani Hotel opens in the Burj Khalifa on 27 April, with 160 rooms and 144 Armani-designed apartments above it

Tim Reynolds founds ÀNI Private Resorts and the ÀNI Art Academies in the same year — the resorts built to fund the schools

The ICC completes at 484 m with the Ritz-Carlton on its top fifteen floors, its lobby at 425 m and then the highest hotel in the world

Tim Reynolds founds ÀNI Private Resorts and the ÀNI Art Academies in the same year — the resorts built to fund the schools

Royal Mansour opens in Marrakech, built for King Mohammed VI as fifty-three private riads laid out as a medina, its service running through a kilometre of tunnels beneath the gardens

Carette opens on the place des Vosges, interiors by Hubert de Givenchy

The Savoy reopens on 10 October after a £220m rebuild — the costliest hotel renovation on record

Katara Hospitality buys Raffles Singapore

The Maharajas' Express begins running in India

Rosewood Residences launch

Mandarin Oriental Residences launch

Montage Residences launch

Auberge Residences launch

Armani Residences launch with the Burj Khalifa

Mara Plains opens in Kenya under Great Plains

Marriott launches Autograph Collection for independent houses

Royal Mansour opens at Marrakech, commissioned by Mohammed VI and built by 1,200 craftsmen

Coworth Park opens in Ascot under the Dorchester Collection

Babylonstoren opens on a Cape Dutch farm granted in 1692

The Ranch at Rock Creek opens on 6,600 acres in Montana

Brush Creek Ranch opens in Wyoming on a working cattle ranch

The Cosmopolitan opens on the Strip

Maxx Royal opens at Belek on the Turkish Riviera

Marina Bay Sands opens in Singapore, Moshe Safdie's three towers under one sky park

Royal Mansour opens in Marrakech, commissioned by Mohammed VI

Stéphane Courbit's LOV Group takes control of Lucien Barrière

Mariella Avino becomes the fourth generation at the Palazzo Avino, Ravello

Dinner by Heston opens at the Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park

Novikov opens in Mayfair — the first outside Russia

Major Food Group founded

Thomas Kochs becomes general manager of Claridge's

Christian de Portzamparc's cellar opens at Cheval Blanc, shaped like a double-hulled boat, with 52 concrete vats

Accor launches Sofitel Legend for its historic houses

LUX* is created from the rebranding of Naïade Resorts in Mauritius

Stéphane Courbit opens the first Airelles house at Courchevel

Alexander and Carrie Vik open Estancia Vik in Uruguay

Suzanne and Philippe Capezzone open K2 Altitude at Courchevel

Arnaud Zannier opens his first house at Knokke

The Experimental Group opens its first hotel, Grand Pigalle in Paris

Cheval Blanc opens at Flamands beach on St Barths

Taikoo Hui opens in Guangzhou with a Mandarin Oriental — the city’s first five-star hotel

The Collège Culinaire de France is created

Silencio opens in the former printing works of L'Aurore, designed by David Lynch

Armani Hotel Milano opens on via Manzoni in a 1937 rationalist building by Enrico Griffini

The Set Hotels begins with the Conservatorium in Amsterdam

The Ritz-Carlton takes over the management of Al Bustan Palace under agreement with Oman’s Ministry of Tourism

The Royal Opera House opens at Muscat, commissioned by Sultan Qaboos — the first on the Arabian peninsula

Beresheet opens on the rim of the Ramon crater and proves the Negev can carry a luxury market

Wadi Rum is inscribed by UNESCO; the desert camp has already been made a luxury product by Bedouin families themselves

Moshir al-Mamalek opens at Yazd, the country’s first garden hotel

Cédric Grolet joins Le Meurice; Ducasse makes him executive pastry chef two years later

Zarkov and Zaturinsky open White Rabbit in Moscow with Vladimir Mukhin

Aman Residences appear alongside the resorts

Soneva sells its first leasehold residence in the Maldives after the law changes

Tierra Patagonia opens on Lake Sarmiento facing Torres del Paine

Awasi opens in the Atacama at San Pedro

Ballyfin opens in County Laois after a nine-year restoration

Magee Homestead opens beside Brush Creek as an adults-only ranch

Galaxy Macau opens on Cotai

Abel Matutes Prats and Yann Pissenem open Ushuaïa Ibiza

Alexander and Carrie Vik open Estancia Vik in Uruguay

Alan Faena opens the Faena Hotel's Buenos Aires district

Arnaud Zannier opens his first hotel at Knokke

Lang Walker begins the Parramatta and Collins Square hospitality developments

Robin Birley opens 5 Hertford Street in June

Cipriani family sidelined by creditors; Harry's Bar passes to Blue Skye

Coya opens in London

The Mulia opens at Nusa Dua — 737 suites and 108 villas on Geger Beach

Antinori nel Chianti Classico opens, the winery buried in its own hillside

Azulik opens at Tulum, built without nails, concrete or electric light in the rooms

Souq al-Madina burns during the battle for Aleppo; the largest covered market in the world is gutted

Andrew Zobler and Sydell open the first NoMad, in a Broadway building

Mark Weingard opens Iniala on Natai beach in Thailand

Espacio opens as a Mexican luxury collection

The Fiermontino family opens La Fiermontina at Lecce

Jigger & Pony opens on Amoy Street, Singapore, on 8 May

Amanzoe opens above Porto Heli in the Peloponnese

Palacio Nazarenas opens at Cusco in a seventeenth-century convent

Monastero Santa Rosa opens on the Amalfi coast in a seventeenth-century convent

Historic Hotels Worldwide launches as the international arm of the American programme

Ultraviolet opens in Shanghai — ten seats, one seating, no published address, and light, scent and sound as part of the dish

The Alpina Gstaad opens — the first new hotel in Gstaad in a century

Song Saa Private Island opens in Cambodia's Koh Rong archipelago

Pegasus Capital buys Six Senses and Evason from the Shivdasanis

Rosewood opens Castiglion del Bosco, Massimo Ferragamo's Montalcino estate

Wang Jianlin's Wanda begins the Wanda Reign luxury line

Institut de Cuisine Michel Guérard and Café Mère Poule open

Development of Miavana begins on Nosy Ankao, led by the Peyre and Dalais families — land rehabilitation, nurseries, the removal of invasive species and the planting of more than 100,000 endemic trees

First Nobu Hotel opens at Caesars Palace

Niko Romito takes three stars at Reale

Guo Guangchang's Fosun buys Club Med

Aro Hā opens above Lake Wakatipu, off-grid on a regenerated farm

Buddha-Bar Hotel opens in Paris, a nightlife brand turned hotel

U Spa opens at the Hôtel Barrière Le Majestic in Cannes

Iberostar launches Grand and Selection as its upper tiers

Bird Group opens the first Roseate house in Delhi

Tsingpu opens at Yangzhou, restoring Chinese vernacular buildings as hotels

Sheila Johnson opens Salamander Resort in Middleburg, Virginia

Regnum Carya opens at Belek

La Plage Casadelmar opens on the Corsican shore

Coco Privé opens on Kuda Hithi in the Maldives

Zaya Nurai opens off Abu Dhabi

Aman opens in the Palazzo Papadopoli on the Grand Canal

Castell Son Claret opens in a Mallorcan estate

Severin*s opens at Lech

Zorlu Center opens in Istanbul — Turkey’s first five-function complex, with the hotel drawn as one tower of four identical ones

Rezidor and Missoni terminate the worldwide Master Licence Agreement on 31 December; the hotels leave the marks by 30 June 2014 and carry on under other names

LVMH acquires 80% of Cova for a reported €33m, outbidding Prada

Al Zubarah is inscribed by UNESCO

Casino Carrasco reopens as the Sofitel Montevideo Casino Carrasco & Spa

The Marzotto family buys Peck

Alain Ducasse opens the Manufacture de Chocolat on the rue de la Roquette

Prince Mutaib bin Abdullah buys the Crillon, reportedly for €250m, and closes it

Alain Ducasse takes charge of all dining at Le Meurice

Seven Stars in Kyushu enters service — Japan's first luxury sleeper train

Velaa Private Island opens in the Maldives

Chris Burch and James McBride take NIHI Sumba and rebuild it

Fogo Island Inn opens in Newfoundland, its surplus returned to the community

The first Nobu Hotel opens at Caesars Palace

SUJÁN JAWAI opens in December among the granite hills of the Pali district

The Chedi opens at Andermatt, the first five-star hotel in the Urseren valley

Parkroyal on Pickering opens in Singapore as a hotel with more planting than footprint

NeueHouse opens in New York, a workspace built as a members' club

The Battery opens in San Francisco

Yannick Alléno takes the Pavillon Ledoyen concession

Mott 32 opens in Hong Kong

Scorpios opens on Mykonos

Condé Nast Traveler names The Mulia Bali the world's best beach resort

The Brando opens on Motu Onetahi under Richard Bailey's Pacific Beachcomber — 35 villas, seawater air-conditioning, and a bar named after Brando's factotum

The Brando opens on 1 July, ten years to the day after Marlon Brando's death

Gitano opens at Tulum in the jungle beside the beach road

Historic Jeddah, Al Balad, is inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage list

Historic Jeddah, the Gate to Makkah, is inscribed by UNESCO — 650 historic buildings, 36 mosques and five souqs

The LINE opens in Koreatown, Los Angeles

Calala opens off Nicaragua

The Vines opens in Uco Valley, Mendoza

SJM signs with Karl Lagerfeld in Paris in March for a hotel he will design entirely, due in 2017

Alila Jabal Akhdar opens on the mountain — the first house to sell Oman as something other than a coast

Four Seasons opens on the same ground, reproducing the facade — ⚑ the register holds the building that stood and the building that repeats it

Aman opens its first city house anywhere, on the 33rd floor at Otemachi

Historic Jeddah is inscribed by UNESCO — the souqs, ribats and wakalas that housed the pilgrim

Prada acquires 80% of Marchesi 1824 in reply

Osim International takes a majority stake in TWG Tea

The Asahi Group acquires Nadaman

The Brando opens on Tetiaroa, the atoll Marlon Brando bought in 1967

Orient-Express Hotels renames itself Belmond

Aman Tokyo opens in the Otemachi Tower — the brand's first city house, in the year control passed from Zecha to Doronin

Awasi Patagonia opens with a private guide and vehicle for every villa

Kirk Kerkorian dies in Beverly Hills on 15 June, aged 98

Sexy Fish opens on Berkeley Square, 19 October

Marriott opens a new Ritz-Carlton Bali at Nusa Dua, six years after losing the original

Casa Malca opens at Tulum in a house that had belonged to Pablo Escobar

Dior Spa opens at the Plaza Athénée

Café Dior opens in Seoul, in the House of Dior building by Christian de Portzamparc

Marriott launches Tribute Portfolio for independent hotels

Wharf opens the first Niccolo, in Chengdu

Atmosphere opens its first Maldivian resort

Baccarat opens its first hotel on West 53rd Street, hung with its own crystal

Silvio Denz opens Villa René Lalique in Alsace, beside the glassworks

Iconic Luxury Hotels is formed around Cliveden, Chewton Glen and the Lygon Arms

The Set is formed from the Café Royal, the Conservatorium and the Mark

ÀNI opens its first private resort in Anguilla, let whole rather than by room

Ahn Luh opens at Zhujiajiao, a Chinese house on a heritage brief

UNA Esperienze is created as the upper tier of the UNA group

R Collection forms around a group of Italian lake and mountain houses

Barry Sternlicht opens the first 1 Hotel at South Beach

Virgin opens its first hotel in Chicago

Domaine de Fontenille opens at Lauris in the Luberon

Analjit Singh opens Leeu Estates at Franschhoek

Ikos opens its first resort in Halkidiki on an all-inclusive luxury brief

NG Hotels opens Phaselis Bay on the Turkish coast

Rosewood opens in São Paulo in the former Matarazzo maternity hospital

Altay Village opens on Lake Teletskoye

Analjit Singh opens Leeu Estates at Franschhoek

Pestana partners with Cristiano Ronaldo; the first CR7 hotel opens at Funchal in 2016

Palazzo Versace Dubai opens on Dubai Creek, interiors by Donatella Versace

Barangaroo Reserve opens in Sydney: a container port demolished and the pre-colonial headland rebuilt from sandstone dug out of the site

Qatar’s Constellation Hotels buys 64% of Coroin, the holding company of Maybourne, from the Barclay brothers and Derek Quinlan

La Réserve Paris opens at 42 avenue Gabriel — the only French-owned Palace hotel

Starwood Capital agrees on 9 February to sell the Baccarat Hotel New York to Sunshine Insurance Group — a month before it opens — and keeps the management

Fosun completes its acquisition of Club Med — Chinese capital buying a European hospitality brand, and the reverse of the flow this register spent a century recording

Spa de La Mer opens at the Baccarat Hotel New York — La Mer's first spa anywhere

Waldorf Astoria Residences launch

Six Senses Residences launch

Baccarat Residences launch in New York

Four Seasons flies its first Private Jet itinerary

Angama Mara opens above the Mara Triangle, where Out of Africa was filmed

Six Senses opens in the Douro valley in a nineteenth-century quinta

Domaine de Fontenille opens at Lauris in a seventeenth-century Luberon estate

Scorpios opens at Paraga on Mykonos, built around the sunset ritual

Paddy McKillen's Maybourne passes to Qatari ownership after a long dispute

Kirill Pisarev develops the Sea Breeze resort on the Caspian

Spa Chanel au Ritz opens — the world's first and only

Amazónico opens in Madrid

Anthony Lark founds the Phuket Hotels Association; it later bans single-use plastics across its members

Santani opens near Kandy, built into a Sri Lankan hillside with minimal earthworks

Ralph Lauren opens the first Ralph's Coffee above the Fifth Avenue store

Hyatt launches The Unbound Collection

OZEN opens at Maadhoo in the Maldives

Ultima opens its first house at Gstaad

The Contreras family opens Il Sereno on Lake Como after Le Sereno on St Barths

Chablé opens in Yucatán on a nineteenth-century henequen hacienda

Jean-Michel Lavorel begins assembling the Lavorel hotel group

FUFU opens at Kawaguchiko under Mount Fuji

Octant opens its first Portuguese house

Michael Fuerstman opens the first Pendry in San Diego

Emmanuel Sauvage forms the Evok Collection in Paris

Nolinski opens on the avenue de l'Opéra

Cosmos Collection opens at Bodrum

Dubai Parks and Resorts opens with its own hotel

Natural Selection forms in Botswana

La Valise opens at Tulum, its beds rolling out onto the sand

Cempedak opens off Bintan, built in bamboo

The Contreras family opens Il Sereno on Lake Como, designed by Patricia Urquiola

Space closes on 2 October after 27 seasons, its lease not renewed

Marriott completes its acquisition of Starwood on 23 September for about $13.6 bn — the largest hotel merger to that point

Accor acquires FRHI and its three brands; the price is given as $2.6, $2.7 and $2.9 bn

Brickell City Centre opens its first phase on 3 November — a Hong Kong podium-and-towers pattern in Miami, under a $30 m canopy that catches the sea breeze

Building begins at Nagatinskaya Poima on 17 March; it halts in early 2017 for want of money and restarts after refinancing

Ultima Gstaad opens in December on the site of the demolished Sport Hotel Rutti — the first house of a company that would list on an exchange three years later

Anantara Al Jabal Al Akhdar opens on 1 October on the canyon rim — the second act of the mountain as a destination

Vision 2030 is published: tourism becomes a state priority and every giga-project in this register descends from it

Anantara Al Jabal Al Akhdar opens on 1 October on the canyon rim, owned by the state tourism company

UNESCO inscribes the Persian Qanat — the infrastructure that decided where a caravanserai could stand

Maison de la Truffe opens its first atelier inside Galeries Lafayette Gourmet

The Singapore High Court dismisses Murjani's claims against Osim and Bouqdib

Sandro Silva and Marta Seco open Amazónico in Madrid

One&Only Private Homes launch

Beaverbrook opens in Lord Beaverbrook's Surrey house

Domaine des Etangs opens in Charente, a medieval estate of a thousand hectares

Les Prés d’Eugénie receives the French Palace distinction; Christine Guérard dies

Miavana opens on Nosy Ankao after four years of construction — fourteen villas on a 2,500-acre island reached only by helicopter, designed by Silvio Rech and Lesley Carstens

Niko Romito becomes sole culinary author of Bvlgari Hotels

Trilantic buys Pacha Group for €350m

Maison Troisgros moves to a purpose-built house at Ouches

THG buys ESPA for a reported £100m

Shellona opens at Pampelonne, after Saint-Barth

Lotte opens the first Signiel at the Lotte World Tower in Seoul

Brian De Lowe and Brad Korzen open the first Proper in San Francisco

Ian Schrager opens PUBLIC on the Lower East Side

Emerald Collection opens in the Maldives

Santo Collection forms on Santorini

Habitas opens at Tulum, built to be dismantled without trace

Time + Tide forms from Norman Carr Safaris in Zambia

The American Bar is named World's Best Bar in the 50 Best, at 124 years old

Atlas opens at Parkview Square on 25 March with a 1,300-bottle gin tower

Thorntree opens on the Zambezi above the falls

Palácio Tangará opens in São Paulo's Burle Marx park

Villa La Coste opens in the Provençal art estate

Hï Ibiza opens in the same building under Ushuaïa Entertainment

The Waldhotel opens at Bürgenstock as a medical hotel by Matteo Thun

Starbucks opens a 30,000-square-foot Roastery in Shanghai, twice the size of Seattle’s, in a building shaped like a coffee bean

Hurricane Irma destroys most of Necker Island on 6 September; most structures are rebuilt by April 2018

LOV Group creates Airelles Collection in November

Givenchy opens its third and last spa at the Hôtel Métropole Monte-Carlo; the room now carries Guerlain’s name

Didier Gomez’s Givenchy spa opens at the Hôtel Métropole Monte-Carlo

Signiel Seoul opens in April on floors 76 to 101 of the Lotte World Tower — Lotte’s luxury brand, limited by its own rule to one house per city

The Red Sea Project is announced — a destination on ninety islands, built where there was nothing

The Dolfi family buy Stohrer

Signiel opens on floors 76 to 101 of the Lotte World Tower

Paradise City opens beside Incheon airport — an integrated resort built around aviation access

Starbucks opens its first Reserve Roastery outside the United States, in Shanghai

The Il Borro Tuscan Bistro concept is exported for the first time, to Dubai

The Crillon reopens after a four-year, €250m restoration, operated by Rosewood

Luigi Miroli dies; his son Andrea takes the restaurant

Train Suite Shiki-shima begins running from Ueno

The Belmond Andean Explorer begins service — the first sleeper train in South America

Twilight Express Mizukaze enters service in western Japan

Nobu Residences are announced in Toronto — the restaurant brand becomes a home

Cheval Blanc Residences launch

Miavana opens off Madagascar, reached only by helicopter

Kokomo Private Island opens in Fiji's Kadavu group

Bisate Lodge opens in Rwanda beside Volcanoes National Park

Deplar Farm opens in a converted sheep farm in the Fljót valley, Iceland

The Silo opens in a Cape Town grain elevator carved out by Thomas Heatherwick

The Ned opens in Lutyens's Midland Bank building, a Soho House and Sydell partnership

Baha Mar opens at Cable Beach after a decade of construction and a bankruptcy

Dan Friedkin buys Auberge Resorts Collection

Grace Hotels passes to Auberge Resorts Collection for branding and management; Grace Cafayate is excluded and goes independent

Archive (Ruffini) takes 40% of Langosteria

Frantzén takes three stars in Stockholm

21c Museum Hotel opens in Bentonville — a contemporary art museum with rooms, in a town of 50,000

Euphoria Retreat opens at Mystras in the Peloponnese

The Retreat opens at the Blue Lagoon, carved into an Icelandic lava field

The wholesale trade moves to Toyosu; the Tsukiji outer market stays on its historic site

A royal decree creates the Jeddah Historic District Programme with its own budget

7Pines opens its first resort at Ibiza

SALT opens at Mauritius on a community-tourism brief

The Leading Hotels of the World marks ninety years as a member-owned cooperative

Fauchon opens L'Hôtel on the Place de la Madeleine, above its own shop

Saudi Arabia's PIF forms the Boutique Group to convert palaces and historic buildings into hotels

Eight Hotels forms in Italy

Adrian Zecha opens Azerai at Luang Prabang, a return at eighty-five

H8 Collection forms from a group of Italian houses

Oleg Tinkov opens the first La Datcha at Courchevel

Jigger & Pony moves to the Amara Hotel when the shophouse is redeveloped

Royal Champagne opens above Épernay among the vineyards

Thanda Island opens off Tanzania, let whole

Ambergris Cay opens in the Turks and Caicos with its own airstrip

Banwa opens in Palawan

Casa Nalum opens on the Sian Ka'an lagoon

Anton Pinsky's Kolbasny Tsekh wins the national concept award; he is named restaurateur of the year the following year

Fattal lists on the Israeli stock exchange; it becomes the largest hotel group in Israel and one of Europe's largest

The Anambas Foundation is created

Hyatt completes the Two Roads Hospitality acquisition on 30 November for a revised $405 m — the management agreements of 74 hotels, not their buildings

Fauchon L’Hôtel Paris opens on 1 September on the site of the former Baccarat boutique, in sight of the 1886 shop, replacing the minibar with a Roche Bobois armoire restocked daily

The new passenger terminal opens at Muscat International — the infrastructure that upscale tourism had been waiting for

Grolet named World's Best Pastry Chef at the 50 Best and opens La Pâtisserie du Meurice

Gucci Osteria opens in Florence with Massimo Bottura, out of the Gucci Garden installation

Moma Group takes 75% of Lapérouse in March, with Antoine Arnault as investor

JOALI Maldives opens on Raa Atoll in October

Sharan Pasricha's Ennismore takes The Hoxton and Gleneagles into one group

Aman launches Janu as its sister brand under Vladislav Doronin

LXR Hotels & Resorts launches as Hilton's collection of independents

Six Senses is acquired by IHG for $300m

Sonop opens in the Namib on a granite outcrop, furnished as a 1920s expedition camp

Sheldon Chalet opens on a nunatak inside Denali, reached only by ski plane

Heckfield Place opens in a Georgian house in Hampshire after a decade of restoration

Morpheus opens at Macau, Zaha Hadid's exoskeleton tower completed after her death

Amanyangyun opens near Shanghai after 10,000 camphor trees and fifty houses were moved 700km

InterContinental Shanghai Wonderland opens in a disused quarry, sixteen of its eighteen floors below ground

Bluewaters Island opens off Jumeirah with the Ain Dubai wheel

The Pariente family opens Le Coucou at Méribel

Oleg Tinkov opens La Datcha at Courchevel

Philipp Plein opens The Plein Hotel

Soho House acquires Scorpios

Sketch's Lecture Room takes three stars — Mazouz the first African restaurateur to hold three

Sebastien Silvestri becomes the first chief executive of the Dinex Group

Sensei Lānai opens on Larry Ellison's island, a Four Seasons house given over to wellbeing

MAYRVEDA opens at Kislovodsk, taking the Mayr protocol to a Russian spa town

Green Flow opens at Rosa Khutor

Six Senses Vana opens at Dehradun, the group's first pure wellness house

Potato Head Studios opens at Seminyak, built to a zero-waste brief

Alain Ducasse opens Pavyllon, a counter-service dining room at the Plaza Athénée

The restoration of 56 buildings is announced, the first stage at $13.3m

Hilton launches Signia as its meetings-led luxury line

Impression by Secrets launches as a resort-within-a-resort

Ascott launches The Crest Collection

Minor gathers its most distinctive houses into the Reserve Collection

Dusit launches Devarana as its retreat line

Pemako opens at Punakha in Bhutan

Shedir Collection opens its first Italian house

The Tais opens in Georgia

Aethos opens its first house in Italy

Nimbus opens its first house

Silversands opens at Grand Anse, Grenada

Equinox opens its first hotel at Hudson Yards, built around sleep and training

Alain Ducasse and the Pariente family open Lily of the Valley at Gigaro

Guy Laliberté opens Nukutepipi, the atoll he bought in 2007

Islas Secas opens off Panama, run entirely on solar power

Xigera opens in the Okavango, furnished entirely by African makers

Sonia Cheng opens Rosewood Hong Kong at Victoria Dockside

The St. Regis opens on the Grand Canal at Venice

Kin House opens in Wiltshire, let whole

Mandarin Oriental opens on Canouan

Barrière opens Le Carl Gustaf at Gustavia

The first phase of Hudson Yards opens in New York

Six reserves are declared across AlUla, Sharaan among them, covering 12,160 km²

Lagerfeld dies in Paris in February; SJM says the same week it will finish the hotel bearing his name

Ultima Capital goes public on the BX Swiss exchange under the ticker ULTIMA, holding the chalets its guests can occupy and cannot buy

Saudi Arabia issues its first tourist visas in September, opening the country to travel that is not pilgrimage — ⚑ without this line nothing after 2021 in this chronology is possible

Iniala Harbour House opens in four converted townhouses on the harbour wall

White Rabbit reaches 13th in the World's 50 Best — the highest Russian placing

Cheval Blanc takes over La Résidence de la Pinède

Scenic Eclipse enters service as a discovery yacht with two helicopters and a submarine

Emerald Yacht Cruises launches Emerald Azzurra

Raffles Residences launch

The Ritz-Carlton announces a Private Jet programme

Bawah Reserve opens in the Anambas after a build that moved no earth by machine

LVMH completes the acquisition of Belmond on 17 April

The Newt opens in Somerset, built around a working cider farm and garden

The Lodge at Blue Sky opens on a Utah ranch that rehabilitates rescued horses