is a travel agency based on the fifth floor of Trust Tower in Kamiya-cho, Tokyo in Kamiyacho, Minatoku, 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. Sawada Holdings Co., Ltd also owns 40% of the shares of the Russian bank Solid Bank. 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 that by "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. Affiliations International Air Transport Association, Japan Association Of Travel Agents Subsidiaries and Affiliates Travel business (75) ORION TOUR Co.,LTD H.I.S. INTERNATIONAL TOURS (NY) INC. Hotels (10) THE WATERMARK HOTEL GROUP PTY. LTD. Theme Park (14) HUIS TEN BOSCH Co.,Ltd Other (11) Kyusyu Sangyo Kotsu Holdings Co.,Ltd. GROUP MIKI HOLDINGS LIMITED Japan Holiday Travel Ohshu Express Ltd. Cruise Planet Co., Ltd. Merit Travel Group Jonview Canada Red Label Vacations (redtag.ca, itravel2000.com) Flyhub H.I.S. world network Europe Istanbul, Turkey Baku, Azerbaijan Rome and Milan, Italy London, Great Britain Paris and Nice, France Frankfurt, Germany Madrid and Barcelona, Spain Wien, Austria Zurich, Switzerland Moscow, Russia Athens, Greece North America New York California Hawaii Mexico Canada Cancun South America São Paulo, Brazil Asia South Korea Hong Kong Singapore Bangladesh Maldives Bangkok Indonesia Malaysia Vietnam Myanmar Mongolia Philippines Oceania Brisbane, Sydney,