• The first hotel in the modern sense was opened in 1768 under the name Royal Clearance Hotel in the city of Exeter, England
  • Fashion designed Coco Chanel lived at the Hotel Ritz Paris for more than 30 years
  • Built in 1936 to house fisherman, the most northerly hotel in the world is the Nordpol Hotelet (North Pole Hotel) in Ny-Alesund, Spitsbergen
  • The U.S. leads the world in number of hotel rooms with nearly 5 million while China is second with 1.5 million rooms
  • Founded in 718, the Hoshi Ryokan is the oldest hotel in the world and has been managed for the last 46 generations by the same family
  • The kitchen of the famous Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami has eight 200-gallon tanks filled with fresh fish, crabs, oysters, and lobsters ready for the kitchen’s use
  • Built in 1993, the Hotel de Sal Playa in Bolivia was built by salt artisans entirely out of, well…salt
  • The original Palmer House Hilton in Chicago, the U.S.’s oldest continually operating hotel, burned to the ground in the Great Chicago Fire just 13 days after opening