In the hotel industry, where the number of guests has decreased significantly due to the effects of the new coronavirus, there is a growing movement to sell long-stay plans that offer hotels as “living places” at low rates.
Of these, Keio Plaza Hotel in Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo began selling long-stay plans this month.
The price for the most expensive deluxe type guest room is 270,000 yen for 30 consecutive nights, which is significantly cheaper than usual, and you can use the meeting room for work for up to 2 hours a day for free.
We also prepared a plan that allows you to stay at a bargain price of about 5,000 yen per night, but it means that the portion until mid-May was sold out in about two hours from the start of sales.
At this hotel, foreign tourists, who accounted for 70% of the guests, have become almost zero due to the effects of the new coronavirus, so the aim is to acquire new customers with a long-stay plan that uses the hotel as a place of living. there is.
Yoko Sugiura of the Keio Plaza Hotel Sales Strategy Office says, "I would like you to take all possible measures against infectious diseases and learn about new ways to use the hotel so that you can stay with peace of mind."
In the hotel industry, there is a growing movement to sell these long-stay plans such as Imperial Hotel and Hotel New Otani.