Recent Examples on the WebSo for a city with roughly 100,000 residents, there is an outsized, thriving community of interior designers, house flippers, remodelers, home stagers, hoteliers, and vacation-rental managers who design and build living quarters of all kinds across town.—Christine Lennon, Sunset Magazine, 8 Apr. 2024 Though the husbands sold the motel in 2023—in part to pave way for the Bungalow—the former hoteliers are still forging connections in the hospitality world.—Joe Sills, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024 With its green leaves and white flowers, hoteliers in Margarita began years ago to plant it as landscaping.—Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2024 Set to the music of Swedish pop-star band ABBA, the 2008 film follows hotelier Donna (Meryl Streep) and her daughter Sophie’s (Amanda Seyfried) search for her father before her wedding day.—Selena Kuznikov, Variety, 2 Apr. 2024 Now, such excesses have mostly receded, largely thanks to the increasing power of the device in our palms, but also because hoteliers have again acknowledged the inherent luxury of simplicity.—The Editors, Robb Report, 28 Mar. 2024 The first Caribbean property in the Edition hotel portfolio (a partnership between hotelier Ian Schrager and Marriott International), The Rivera Maya Edition is located on a 620-acre nature preserve next to the St. Regis Kanai Resort, another Marriott property that debuted in March 2023.—Ingrid Schmidt, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Mar. 2024 Prior to joining luxury hotelier, Veluru was CTO at MGM Resorts International.—John Kell, Fortune, 27 Mar. 2024 Productions pay catering businesses to feed workers, hoteliers to house their crews and dry cleaners to do the laundry — all of which creates a ripple effect.—Christopher Kuo, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2024
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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
Note:
Cf. hosteler, hostler, ultimately borrowed from Anglo-Norman counterparts to the continental Old French word.
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