H.I.S. Co., Ltd. (9603) Stock Price

H.I.S. Co., Ltd. is a comprehensive leisure company with travel as its core business. Its primary operations include planning and selling overseas and domestic travel packages, which it offers to both individual and corporate customers through a global network of retail stores and an online reservation system. Leveraging expertise developed in the travel business, the company operates diversified tourism and leisure-related businesses including hotel operations, transportation services, and theme park management.

The company's customer base consists primarily of general consumers seeking overseas and domestic travel. Revenue is generated mainly from travel package sales commissions, hotel accommodation income, and transportation business revenue from bus operations. The company operates subsidiaries across Asia, North America, Europe, and other regions worldwide, conducting business through both local travel service provision and inbound travel from Japan.

The company's operations are divided into four segments. The travel business provides local travel services through subsidiaries worldwide. The hotel business operates properties in Japan, Taiwan, the United States, Turkey, and other locations. The Kyushu Sanko Group handles bus operations and real estate leasing. Other businesses include operation of "Laguna Ten Bosch," a theme park in Aichi Prefecture, overseas travel insurance, reservation system development, and infrastructure-related services, creating a comprehensive service platform centered on travel.

H.I.S. is pursuing sustainable growth with a vision to become "a company full of challenge, connecting the world, and continuously chosen by customers" as it approaches its 50th anniversary in 2030. The company has positioned the fiscal year ending October 2026 as a preparatory period for its new medium-term management plan, with "transformation through collaboration between AI, technology, and people" as its management policy. Financially, the company aims to achieve an equity ratio of 20% or higher in the near term, strengthening its capital base through profit accumulation in core operations and reducing interest-bearing debt to improve financial health.

The company's priority investment areas are creating experiential value and improving productivity through AI and DX technology. By implementing a CRM system across the group, it aims to maximize customer lifetime value and is promoting the development of new distribution models leveraging its global network. As a differentiation strategy, the company positions its global network—149 locations domestically and 141 locations across 58 countries overseas—as its greatest strength, and plans to expand its accumulated expertise in services for Japanese customers to customer segments in other countries.

In new market development, the company is prioritizing the global (non-Japanese) market as a growth driver, accelerating expansion through strategy planning and investment support led by the Global Management division. For business expansion, the company actively pursues M&A, investments, and partnerships to enter new business areas and expand existing operations. By incorporating external resources, it aims to ensure broad coverage across diverse industries, capture growth opportunities in the short term, and strengthen its business portfolio.

In technological innovation, the company positions AI and technology as essential elements of business operations and pursues a strategy to create distinctive value through fusion with its core competency of "human talent." While promoting labor efficiency and speed through AI application, the company optimally allocates human resources to creative, high-value-added work, building a collaboration model between technology and people. Additionally, through DEIB (diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging) initiatives that promote diverse talent engagement, the company is building an organization capable of responding to changing market environments.