Why So Many ‘Bristol’ Hotels Around the World?

According to the Wall Street Journal, there are nearly 200 hotels worldwide named “Bristol,” popping up in such non-English locales as Oslo, Warsaw, Paris and San Francisco. Just how did the name become so ubiquitous? No one seems to know for sure, but the working theory points to an 18th-century Earl who had lavish tastes in travel.

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