The history of the Four Seasons, according to fourseasons.com:
• The first Four Seasons hotel opens March 21, 1961, in downtown Toronto.
• Four Seasons opened its second hotel, Toronto’s Inn on the Park, in 1963. Near the end of the decade the company opened a third hotel, leading to more significant expansion in the 1970s.
• In 1970, Inn on the Park London (later renamed Four Seasons Hotel London at Park Lane) opened.
• Four Seasons entered the U.S. market in 1976 with its first management contract, for San Francisco’s 1913 landmark hotel, The Clift. After a major renovation and a few years of Four Seasons service, the readers of Condé Nast Traveler named The Clift the No. 1 hotel in America.
• In 1979, the first Four Seasons-branded U.S. hotel opened on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C.
• Branded private residences were introduced in 1985 at Four Seasons Hotel Boston. Since then, Four Seasons has opened more than 40 residential projects around the globe. Today, nearly all Four Seasons projects under development include a residential component.
• In 1986, Four Seasons opened a hotel with a full-service spa. Four Seasons Resort and Club Dallas was a first, for both the company and the industry.
• In 1990, Four Seasons launched its first tropical resort in Maui. The following year, the company opened a property on the Caribbean island Nevis.
• The first Four Seasons hotel in Asia opened in Tokyo in 1992. Later that year, the company entered a host of additional Asian destinations through the acquisition of Regent International Hotels. Along with management of Regent hotels from Hong Kong to Beverly Hills, Four Seasons acquired projects that would open as Four Seasons hotels, including the I.M. Pei-designed spire on Manhattan’s 57th Street in 1993.
• With its first Maldives resort opened in 1998, Four Seasons began to add scuba diving destinations to its growing choices for leisure guests.
• In 2000, Four Seasons Hotel Cairo at The First Residence became the company’s first hotel in the Middle East. It was followed in the next few years by significant expansion in the region, including the first resort, at Sharm El Sheikh, which opened in 2002.
• In 2002, Four Seasons Hotel Shanghai marked the company’s entry into the Chinese market.
• The company’s first mountain resort, Four Seasons Resort Jackson Hole, opened in 2008 with skiing as well as warm-weather activities.
• In 2008, Four Seasons marked its entry into the Indian market with a contemporary hotel in Mumbai’s Worli district.
• Four Seasons entered Sub-Saharan Africa, opening a safari lodge in Serengeti, Tanzania, in 2012.
• In 2013, Four Seasons opened its first Russian hotel, transforming a 19th-century palace apartment building in St. Petersburg.
• In September 2016, Shad Khan purchased full ownership of Four Seasons Hotel Toronto.
• In 2019, Four Seasons opened its first property in Greece with the restoration of the Astir Palace in Athens. The company also expanded its residential footprint with the opening of Twenty Grosvenor Square in London’s Mayfair district.
• Four Seasons opened several new properties in 2020, including the company’s first property in Spain with a new Hotel and Private Residences in Madrid, as well as the return to Thailand’s capital with a new property in Bangkok.
• Four Seasons announced July 25, 2023, that, in partnership with Shad Khan, it would build a Four Seasons Hotel and Private Residences in Downtown Jacksonville.