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.