What is the Ritz?
The ritz has several definitions all flowing from the same source, the creation of the Ritz-Carlton Hotels by famous hotelier, César Ritz. He is best known for two European Hotels, The Ritz in Paris and the The Carlton in London. These hotels were the ultimate in luxurious accommodations, and after Ritz’s death, the Ritz-Carlton Company was formed to open more hotels bearing his name in the US. After the Great Depression, only one American hotel, the Ritz-Carlton in Boston, Massachusetts, remained. Yet regrowth of the economy led to the company, which has changed hands numerous times, building more hotels after the 1940s.
