Wikidata records 312 hotels that opened in the 1960s, from 1960 to 1969, in 73 countries; most of them in the United States (64), Japan (38) and Taiwan (15).[1][2] The best known, by the number of Wikipedia language editions with an article on it, is Caesars Palace, opened in 1966. The year with the most recorded openings is 1969, with 39.
Method
A hotel is listed under the year of the earliest date Wikidata gives for its official opening or, where it gives none, its inception. For a building converted into a hotel, the inception is often that of the building. Hotels that have since closed are included. Decades with at least 25 dated hotels have a list of their own. Within each year, hotels are in alphabetical order.[1][2]
Summary
By type: hotel (291), inn (5), motel (5), lodge (3) and ryokan (3), and 5 of other types. By country: United States (64), Japan (38), Taiwan (15), Spain (12), Indonesia (12), United Kingdom (10), Germany (9), Nepal (8), Israel (7), Papua New Guinea (7), and 63 more countries. Architectural styles recorded most often: modern (14), International Style (5), Pahlavi (3), brutalist (2), Art Nouveau (1), baroque (1), mid-century modern (1), rationalism (1), Renaissance Revival (1), Soviet Modernist (1).[1][2]
1960
1961
1962
1963
The 35 best known of 36, by the number of Wikipedia language editions that cover them.
1964
The 35 best known of 37, by the number of Wikipedia language editions that cover them.
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
The 35 best known of 39, by the number of Wikipedia language editions that cover them.
Architects
Architects and firms with an article in Innpedia who designed hotels opened in the 1960s, by the number of them.
- William B. Tabler (4)
- Emmanouil Vourekas (2)
- Friis & Moltke (2)
- King and Lewis (2)
- Morris Lapidus (2)
- Prokopis Vassiliadis (2)
- Spyros Staikos (2)
- Yaakov Rechter (2)
- Alexander Bodon (1)
- Carl Appel (1)
- Chen Chi-kwan (1)
- Frederik Willem de Vlaming (1)
- Hans Schoszberger (1)
- Hugh Maaskant (1)
- John C. Portman Jr. (1)
- John Graham & Company (1)
- József Finta (1)
- Juan Jáuregui Briales (1)
- Kajima Corporation (1)
- Leandro Locsin (1)
See also
- List of hotels opened in the 1950s
- List of hotels opened in the 1970s
- List of oldest hotels
- Hotels by architectural style
- List of hotel architects
References
- ^ Date of official opening (P1619). Wikidata. CC0.
- ^ Inception (P571). Wikidata. CC0.
Facts as stated in Wikidata, read in October 2026.