The history of hotels in Los Cabos — From 0 rooms to over 18,000

The history of hotels in Los Cabos — From 0 rooms to over 18,000

Los Cabos’ beginnings as a tourist destination in the 1950s were exceedingly modest, so much so that the name Los Cabos wouldn’t even be coined for another 30 years. In 1951, when Carmen Fisher opened the Casa Fisher guesthouse in San José del Cabo, the population of that town was a few thousand, while cape sister Cabo San Lucas boasted a population of only 300. By the mid-1950s, her rooms were mostly rented to the people building Hotel Las Cruc…