Definition of "hotelier"

hotelier

/ˌhoʊ.ˈtɛl.i.əɹ/

noun
plural hoteliers
1. Someone who runs a hotel.
  Quotations
  Mumbai: Hotelier Gaurav Arya arrived at the Enforcement Directorate's (ED) office in Mumbai on Tuesday to record his statement in a money laundering case linked to actor Sushant Singh Rajput's death.
  2020 September 1, “Goa Hotelier Being Questioned For Second Day In Sushant Rajput Case”, in NDTV.com‎
  Jim managed to secure employment in a hotel on the lake shore, but even then I could see that his interest in being a hotelier was waning.
  2020 January 30, Maurice Holland, Just a simple innkeeper: The Journey of an Irish Hotelier‎, Australian Self Publishing Group, page 68
  He was, by nature and choice, a hotelier and destined to become the most famous hotelier in the world.
  1964, Conrad N. Hilton, hotelier‎, page 75