Toyoko Inn Co., Ltd. ( Jap. 株式会社 東 横 イ ン Kabushiki-gaisha To: yoko Ying ) is a business hotel chain in Japan , founded in 1986 and rapidly developing since the 1990s [2] .
Toyoko inn | |
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Type of | Kabushiki |
Base | 1986 |
Founders | Norimasa Nishida |
Location | Ota , Tokyo |
Industry | Hotel chain |
Turnover | 62,149,000,000 yen (March 2012) [1] |
Number of employees | 7 067 (March 2012) [1] |
Site | Official site (Russian) |
The company’s head office is located in the Ota area of the Japanese capital Tokyo, about halfway between the central special areas of Tokyo and Yokohama . This location gave the company a name consisting of a combination of several initial letters of the English transcription of the names of these cities.
The network policy is aimed at the uniformity of the hotels included in it, which allows reducing corporate expenses as much as possible [3] .
The network is also known for its unique personnel policy: in 2001, 95% of the company’s employees were women, while hotel managers were almost exclusively married women [4] .
The company is showing rapid growth by more than doubling the number of its hotels from 61 in December 2002 to 126 in May 2006, with an average price (as of May 2006) between 4,800 and 6,800 yen per night for a single room [5] .
Almost all the hotels in the chain are in Japan, with the exception of three hotels in South Korea - two in Busan and one in Seoul [6] .
In early 2006, it became known about the scandal caused by the illegal Toyoko Inn reconstruction of 77 of its hotels. Work in the buildings was carried out after their acceptance by architectural and construction supervision. As a result, 60 of them were found to be inconsistent with building codes and 18, and not conforming to standards defining access requirements for buildings for disabled people [7] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 会 社 概要 (Company Profile) (Japanese) . Toyoko Inn. Date of treatment October 25, 2012. Archived December 30, 2012.
- ↑ No frills hotels, The Daily Yomiuri (September 4, 1999), p. 9 .
- ↑ “What is the Toyoko-Inn Concept?”
- ↑ Free agents, The Nikkei Weekly (June 4, 2001), C. 3. (English)
- ↑ December 2002 numbers from "Company History" , retrieved May 22, 2006; May 2006 numbers and typical rates from "Hotel List"
- ↑ " Hotel List ," Toyoko Inn
- ↑ Govt finds 77 Toyoko hotels altered on sly , The Daily Yomiuri (February 7, 2006), S. 1. Archived on February 9, 2006. (eng.)
Links
- Official site (Japanese)
- Official website
- Official site (Russian)