Hotel-related Business Initiatives

Regional Revitalization Driven by the Hotel-related Business

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Surfeel Hotels is working to prevent population decline and economic contraction in the rural areas where it operates and these regional revitalization efforts aim to ensure future growth potential. The business is developing very unique hotels, golf courses, and restaurants throughout Japan from Hokkaido to Okinawa. Our guests can experience a comfortable and carefree atmosphere perfect for the weather and climate in each respective hotel. As part of the infrastructure in these regions, we contribute to regional development by preventing an outflow of the population, creating jobs, and attracting tourists from around the nation.

Local Production and Consumption Initiatives

Each of our hotel brands expanding throughout Japan strives to actively procure local ingredients to use in the local cuisine served at each hotel. The procurement of local ingredients not only helps each hotel introduce their guests to the local ingredients and cuisine but also controls CO₂ emissions produced by freight transports and also reduce costs.

Participation in Cleanup Activities

All Surfeel Hotels participate in local community cleanup activities.
The Laguna Garden Hotel joined the Waterfront Beautification Project (Ginowan Rotary Club ) in November 2021 and the Convention-Dori Cleanup Activity (Okinawa Convention City Association ) in February 2022.

Development of Hotels Offering Everyone a Safe and Comfortable Stay

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All Surfeel Hotels work to provide a barrier-free environment in both guest rooms and other facilities so that every guest can enjoy a safe and comfortable stay.

Surfeel Hotel Wakkanai

• Barrier-free restrooms
• Guest rooms free of stairs

Niseko Northern Resort, An'nupuri

• Barrier-free floors without stairs
• Accessibility rooms equipped with handrails in the bathrooms and restrooms

The Windsor Hotel TOYA Resort & Spa

• Handrails, ramps, and wheelchair-accessible elevators
• Barrier-free restrooms

Seaside Hotel Maiko Villa

• Opened in September 1998 as a hotel complying with the standards in the Japan Building Access Law
• Ramps and elevators throughout the entire premises
• Barrier-free restrooms
• Universal changing rooms with handrails and nursing care supplies

Laguna Garden Hotel

• Barrier-free rooms
• Elevators in each area of the hotel and barrier-free restrooms in the banquet hall

Higher Employee Motivation

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Internship Opportunities

Recent years have shown a trend of fewer people wanting to work in the service industry. That is why the Hotel-related Business offers invaluable practical experience to hospitality and culinary students as well as university students in Japan and from overseas. We provide these internship opportunities for the purpose of giving students some work experience.

Brother and Sister Program

The Hotel-related Business utilizes a ‘Brother and Sister Program’ to establish an environment that responds to the feedback and concerns of new employees. In this program, one young employee acts as a brother or sister to one new employee. This builds an atmosphere where every person can speak candidly and gain advice on how to handle the work and prepare themselves for job. The program helps reduce the turnover rate of new employees by making sure nobody ever feels isolated within the company.

Promotion Encouraging the Employment of Foreign Nationals

We have built a workplace where our employees – irrelevant of their nationality, age or gender - deeply understand one another. This allows us to recruit people across borders and our diverse staff is made up of people from many different countries.

Eco-friendly Hotels

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As a Group company in the Meiji Shipping Group Hotel-related Business, Surfeel Hotels aims to provide a comfortable stay offering greater safety and security. We also ask for the cooperation of our guests to engage in environmental initiatives. Hotels fulfill the role of food and shelter as two of the basic needs. Initiatives at these hotels to reduce the burden on our environment contribute greatly to society.

Initiatives to Reduce Food Loss

All Surfeel Hotels display posters and other information to gain the help of guests in eliminating food loss. Additionally, our restaurant businesses work to regularly review the inventory and distribute food nearing expiration dates to multiple stores. These are only some of our many initiatives to reduce expired food waste.

Guest Room Initiatives

Our hotels and resorts have adopted Eco Signs to indicate when housekeeping is not needed to help reduce the use of resources. We have also placed cards with messages about economizing next to toilet paper holders to encourage guests to carefully use these paper resources.

Use of Paper Straws and Eco-friendly Chopsticks

Surfeel Hotels provide paper straws to reduce plastic waste and reduce CO₂ emissions. To help protect timber resources and reduce waste, we provide eco-friendly chopsticks as well.

Shift to Full LED Lighting

Our hotels and resorts have been steadily shifting to full LED lighting throughout the buildings as a measure to save energy. LED lighting uses less energy than standard light bulbs, which reduces our impact on the environment.