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Records show the current owner is hotelier, real estate investor, and avid polo player Philip Mactaggart, who operates Resident Hotels throughout the United Kingdom as part of Mactaggart Family & Partners.—Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 24 Apr. 2025 This seaside haven looks like it was plucked from a mid-century souvenir postcard, but a recent $10-million overhaul by Maine hotelier Tim Harrington has ushered the 89-year-old resort into the modern era.—Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 16 Apr. 2025 As the quakes eased in late February and early March, residents returned, schools reopened and hoteliers resumed renovations in preparation for Easter and summer visitors.—Niki Kitsantonis, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2025 As Morocco’s first Black female hotelier, Loum-Martin transformed her ten-acre estate into a sanctuary for creativity, cultural exchange, and intellectual discourse.—Ashlee Marie Preston, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for hotelier
Word History
Etymology
borrowed from French hôtelier, going back to Old French ostelier, hostelier "innkeeper," from ostel, hostel "lodgings, hotel entry 1" + -ier-er entry 2
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Cf. hosteler, hostler, ultimately borrowed from Anglo-Norman counterparts to the continental Old French word.
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