Travel Weekly's 2015 Power List


31 | H.I.S. USA

H.I.S. USA
2014 Sales: $405.2 million
Employees: 580
Previous Ranking: 28

535 Fifth Ave., 14th Floor
New York, NY 10017
T (212) 599-4280
Website

Executives

PRESIDENT: Hideki Furukawa
CEO: Masuaki Kitaya
VP, GLOBAL MARKET DEPARTMENT: Jim Kelley

2014 Developments

• Number of offices in Japan reached 296; outside of Japan, the number of offices exceeded 150.

• Started Vladivostok to Guam nonstop charter.

• Launched Skyhub USA B2B brand.

• HIS Go website launched in USA.

Company Facts

• H.I.S.-USA books hotels, provides transportation, guide services, tours and other needs for arriving clients. Also services outbound tour needs on a B2C basis with the main focus on travel to Japan as well as servicing local Japanese population with travel products.

• $32.5 million in ARC sales.

• 87% of sales from business, 10% leisure, 3% other.

• Privately held; parent company H.I.S. Co. Ltd.,Tokyo.

Looking Ahead

• Opening Watermark Hotel and Spa Bali Jimbaran.

• Henn-na Hotel will open in wholly owned theme park in Nagasaki, Japan, as “world’s first robot hotel.”

• Purchasing ANA Sales and establishing Hanavi brand.

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