H.I.S. Co., Ltd. (?????????????, TYO: 9603) is a travel agency based in the Shinjuku Oak Tower in Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan, specializing in low-cost package tours. The company was founded as International Tours Co., Ltd. in 1980 by Hideo Sawada, born in 1951, and renamed "H.I.S." in 1990.
In Japan, H.I.S. has 303 branches throughout the country and a global network of 185 branches in 124 cities abroad. H.I.S. holds a majority stake in Orion Tour, Asia Atlantic Airlines and a minority stake in Skymark Airlines. It owns two hotels in Australia, one called Watermark Hotel and Spa on the Gold Coast, Queensland and the Watermark Hotel Brisbane, and a cruise company called Cruise Planet.
Hideo Sawada bought an interest in the Mongolian agricultural Khan Bank and believes Japanese tourism to Mongolia will increase.
The Henn na Hotel owned by H.I.S. Co . in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, has been recognized by Guinness World Records as "the first robot-staffed hotel" in the world, according to the chief of the Huis Ten Bosch theme park. Henn na Hotel, meaning "strange hotel" in Japanese, opened to the public in July 2015. This high class robot hotel has 144 rooms and 186 robotic employees, some of which are multilingual (Japanese, English, Chinese, Korean). The aim of Henn na Hotel as proposed by Hideo Sawada "is not about being strange, it's about transforming and evolving...having robots in charge of the reception and placing robots everywhere, we aim to make it the most efficient hotel in the world" by reducing manpower.
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H.I.S. world network
Europe
- Istanbul, Turkey
- Rome and Milan, Italy
- London, Great Britain
- Paris, France
- Frankfurt, Germany
- Madrid, Spain
- Wien, Austria
- Zurich, Switzerland
North America
- New York
- San Francisco
- Los Angeles
- Hawaii
- Mexico
- Canada
South America
- São Paulo, Brazil
Asia
- South Korea
- Hong Kong
- Singapore
- Maldives
- Bangkok
- Indonesia
Oceania
- Australia
- New Zealand
- Fiji
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Sources
- "In Mongolia, a Tilt Toward a Free Market," New York Times, James Brooke and Jargal Byambasuren, October 21, 2003
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