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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 to various countries. The company was founded as International Tours Co., Ltd. in 1980 by Hideo Sawada, born in 1951, and renamed "H.I.S." in 1990.
Within Japan H.I.S. has 227 branches located throughout the country plus a global network of 68 branches in 57 countries. H.I.S. holds a majority stake in Orion Tour and a minority stake in Skymark Airlines. It also owns two hotels in Australia, one called Watermark Hotel and Spa on the Gold Coast QLD and one in Brisbane Named Watermark Hotel Brisbane and a cruise company called Cruise Planet.
Hideo Sawada bought an interest in a Mongolian agricultural bank called Khan Bank and believes Japanese tourism to Mongolia will increase.
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[edit] H.I.S. World Network
- Europe
- North America
- New York
- San Francisco
- Los Angeles
- Hawaii
- Mexico
- Canada
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- ^ "Company Info." H.I.S. Retrieved on March 11, 2010.
- "In Mongolia, a Tilt Toward a Free Market" October 21, 2003 New York Times, By JAMES BROOKE and JARGAL BYAMBASUREN
