Hotel-business by Ichizou Kobayashi : The Role of Ichizou Kobayashi in the Hotel Management and His Succession

コバヤシ　イチゾウ　ト　ホテル　ジギョウ　コバヤシ　イチゾウ　ノ　ホテル　ケイエイ　ト　ソノ　コウケイシャ

ツルタ, マサアキ

Tsuruta, Masaaki

The Economic Society of Osaka University

オオサカ　ダイガク　ケイザイ　ガッカイ

阪急電鉄

シティーホテル経営

Japan

Ichizou Kobayashi

Hotel business

management

Ichizou Kobayashi who bore mass deficits by hotel investments planned a new style of urban hotels to introduce many management ways of The Stevens in Chicago, the U.S. Ichizou Kobayashi regarded economies of scale and rationalization of the management as important in urban hotels. The conventional hotel was a guest house for rich people, but users of the urban hotel which Kobayashi planned were businesspersons. The first hotel he planned was Dai-ichi Hotel in Tokyo that launched business in 1938. Dai-ichi Hotel was the greatest hotel in the Orient in those days that offered lower room rates by economies of scale and rationalization of the management. Users of this hotel were businesspersons who came to Tokyo for business. Keizo Tsuchiya established this hotel according to advice by Ichizou Kobayashi. The second hotel he planned was Palace Hotel. The forerunner of Palace Hotel was Hotel Teito. Hotel Teito was a hotel for foreign businesspersons which the Japanese Government owned. Masatomo Yoshihara who was the top management of Hotel Teito bought this hotel from the Japanese Government and founded Palace Hotel. He was the father-in-law of Ichizou Kobayashi. Main customers of the Hotel were foreign businesspersons and executives of Japanese companies. The third hotel he planned was Hotel New Hankyu. The model of the hotel was Dai-ichi Hotel in Tokyo. This hotel was established at the time of redevelopment of Umeda Station by Yonezo Kobayashi, the Hankyu Corporation the top management. He was the third son of Ichizou Kobayashi. Main customers of this hotel were businesspersons and offer low-priced room rates by methods as same as Dai-ichi Hotel.