Iwasaki Sangyo Co., Ltd., owner of the Rydges Capricorn Resort in Queensland, Australia, subscribes to Kyodo Daily News service not only for its guests, but for the benefit of its staff as well. Normally at least six Japanese from the company's headquarters in Kagoshima City are stationed at the hotel. They feel having a current news service in Japanese is a definite benefit to them.
"Although their number is rather small, both our short and long term guests enjoy the up-to-date Japanese language news service. The annual subscription fee, although substantial, is well justified since the service comes from Kyodo News, Japan's oldest and most reliable news service. Both our elderly and middle age guests still prefer printed news to that available on their cell phones so when we welcome them at the front desk and give them the Kyodo Daily News six-page service in A4 size paper they are surprised and pleased by this extra attention and begin reading almost immediately."