H.I.S. (travel agency)
H.I.S. Co., Ltd. (株式会社エイチ・アイ・エス, TYO: 9603) is a travel agency based in the Shinjuku Oak Tower in Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan,[1] 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.[2] 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.
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
Asia
Oceania
Sources
- ↑ "Company Info." H.I.S. Retrieved on March 11, 2010.
- ↑ "Company Info." H.I.S. Retrieved on August 17, 2012.
- "In Mongolia, a Tilt Toward a Free Market," New York Times, James Brooke and Jargal Byambasuren, October 21, 2003