That day at the Lanfang International Airport, while waiting for the flight, I held my breath and made an unannounced visit. As a result, I saw the prosperity of Lanfang, which made Iprasin more and more angry. He didn't even fall asleep on the plane back to Dibba.
In the end, I got rid of my negative emotions by getting angry at the female secretaries and assistants around me and not treating them as human beings.
In just a few hours, he watched the world's first direct flight between Milan and Paris, and the world's first direct flight from Milan to Lanfang.
Among European countries, France and Italy already have direct routes to Lanzhou.
The Germans haven't yet, but it is said that Gu Kun is also working for Lufthansa, playing up the future. At the latest by the end of August or early September, there will be a route from Frankfurt to Lanfang - Berliners are relatively poor, and Germany's economic center is also
It's not in Berlin, but in the northwest, so just make money and fly to Hamburg with money from Germany's pretentious wealthy people. Berlin has no future.
All of these are supporting facilities that have sprung up like mushrooms within a week after the opening of the Lanfang Burj Al Arab Hotel. The growth rate is so fast that the peers are astonished.
Of course, Dibba also has flights to France or Italy, and even "friendly countries" such as Brittany and Spain. However, Dibba's population and scale are many times larger than Lanfang. At any rate, it now has more than 1 million permanent residents.
, and Lan just has 70,000 nationalities and 200,000 to 300,000 permanent residents.
Moreover, Diba is half the distance from Western Europe than Lanfang. Therefore, even if the Lanfang people can only achieve the same level as Diba in terms of the aviation industry’s reach to the European market, it would mean a major failure for Diba.
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In fact, Gu Kun has obviously done better. While quickly catching up with the reach of European commercial routes, Lanfang also launched a two-times weekly round-trip route to Los Angeles on August 15, specifically to pick up and drop off Hollywood's wealthy people.
.The two Boeing 747 transoceanic routes every week are almost full, that is, between five and six hundred Hollywood people come to visit Lanzhou.
If this item is maintained, it will not be equivalent to at least 30,000 wealthy tourists from the ocean every year.
In 2001, even Diba did not have a direct flight to Los Angeles. The only direct route from Diba to Oceania was to New York.
The sense of urgency has never been more real.
As a tropical coral island country in Southeast Asia, Lanfang can attract 30,000 wealthy ocean tourists every year. Its gold content is definitely higher than the latest expected "2 million Chinese tourists per year" - of course, thousands of tourists here
Don’t get me wrong. I think Oceanians are superior to others. It is purely due to the choice preference caused by distance, which makes Oceanians seem to be scarcer and more benchmarking in the Southeast Asian market.
Because any tropical coral island seaside vacation project actually has little difference around the world. The Chinese naturally tend to go to Phuket, Bali and Lanfang, which is the same as the Oceanic people naturally tend to go to Grenada.
Chinese people going to Highland Island in China are almost as good as Oceania going to Puerto Rico, the "51st state".
If one day the Chinese insist on going to Grenada and the Oceanic people insist on coming to Grenada, it means that this person must be a rich man who is not short of money.
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After returning to Diba, because of his wariness, Iprasin continued to pay attention to the developments in Lanfang for a long time, always trying to catch some evidence of Gu Kun's performance fraud, and then find an opportunity to get eye drops in front of investor Mahathir Mohamad.
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Iprasim is not entirely afraid of putting Mahathir’s eggs in several baskets and planning to invest in two tycoon cities at the same time. He actually knows in his heart that this possibility is still very low.
But even if Mahathir does not invest in Gu Kun, it is beneficial to throw dirty water on the investment, because it can lower investors' expectations.
Entrepreneurs are like students, and investors are like parents.
And an entrepreneur like Iprasin, who is on the edge of being reliable and unreliable, is like a quasi-student who is between a scumbag and a scumbag.
For any quasi-student in this world, the existence of "other people's children" that can be used as material for comparison and reference by parents is abhorrent.
Without Gu Kun as a colleague, Ipraxin would not have so many frames of reference to compare with when it comes to burning money. Therefore, Gu Kun’s disgusting frame of reference would simply make Ipraxin feel uncomfortable all over.
School scumbags seize every opportunity to criticize "other people's children", not necessarily because they are afraid that their biological father will really recognize other people's children as their sons.
Unfortunately, even though Iprasin paid close attention to the negative information about the Lanfang Burj Al Arab Hotel project, all he collected was still good and positive information.
Throughout mid-August and late August, the business data of the Burj Al Arab Hotel hit new highs repeatedly, and the relevant route business data of Air France, Lufthansa, and United Airlines can also provide circumstantial evidence of the performance of the Lanfang people, proving that these days, the upper-class European and American white rich are indeed
It’s really fun to get together and experience it.
In early September, the Lanfang Burj Al Arab Hotel took the initiative to announce its results in the 20 days since its official opening in August in a very high-profile manner. Iprasin read it carefully and found no flaws.
Even during the same period, Dibba's share of high-end luxury tourism has declined significantly - after all, there are only three tourist city-states in the world that follow Dibba's model: Monaco, Dibba and Lanfang, so the three options
The direct competition between them is obvious.
Lanfang attracted 2,000 celebrity tycoons from all walks of life in Oceania (whether entertainment stars or sports stars) and 3,000 German, French and Italian tycoons in one month.
That would cut off at least 2,000 customers from Diba people, and less than half of the people who go to Lanfang are poached from Diba's market share.
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With Iprasin lying awake at night, the wheel of history finally turned to mid-September 2001.
Not surprisingly, history has a lot of inertia in some non-economic fields.
Especially because except for the economic, sports, and fashion circles, other aspects of the world are difficult to be affected by the butterfly effect of Gu Kun, a reborn person. Therefore, natural events in the field of international relations, even if Gu Kun has been reborn for more than seven years, should happen.
It's still going to happen.
Gu Kun didn't care at all and didn't intervene.
Moreover, unlike what later generations think, many people who experienced 2001 know that after the emergency events in Oceania occurred in September, the outside world did not think much about them in the first few days, and at first they thought they were accidents.
, it’s the mentality of watching a play.
Even if there was an organization claiming it, the foreign media did not believe it at first. Many people thought it might be a trick framed by the Oceanians. It basically took a week or two for most of the media reporting on international news around the world to basically
Unified understanding.
Therefore, the tightening of the global aviation industry and the impact on the tourism industry will basically not gradually appear until October. The war in Afghanistan did not start again on October 7 without any change.
In the 20 days in mid-to-late September, airlines around the world only raised the level of flight security measures and lengthened the process. Oceanic people were the quickest to respond, while Europeans basically delayed it until the end of the month. Since then, passengers flying around the world have
The time spent on a series of procedures such as early entry security check has also been permanently extended, which is a kind of sadness and inconvenience that we have to face.
Of course, Gu Kun's tourism industry in Lanzhou has basically not been affected. After all, 90% of tourists in Lanzhou are from East and Southeast Asia, with Chinese people accounting for 60% of the total tourists, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Taifei, etc.
Add up to 30%. This market doesn't care what bad things happen on the other side of the ocean.
More importantly, Gu Kun's Lanfang Sailing Hotel was not affected at all, because all his rooms were booked in August and were scheduled until the eve of the Christmas season, that is to say, from mid-August to mid-December.
The Royal Suite was fully occupied for four whole months.
The Presidential Suite has also secured 60 to 70% of the rooms booked several months in advance, and only 30% needs temporary guests. In the worst case scenario, none of the 30% of guests come, which is enough for the Burj Al Arab to protect its capital and make a small profit.
That's it - as mentioned before, as long as the average occupancy rate is two-thirds, this hotel can ensure that the initial investment can be recovered within six years. As long as the occupancy rate is 40%, it can amortize depreciation and operating costs and ensure capital preservation.
In contrast, Iprasin's business has suffered a heavy setback.
He also built a Burj Al Arab Hotel, which was originally scheduled to open during the Christmas season this year and early next year. It is still in the renovation stage.
It's just that the shape of Diba's sailboat is different from Gu Kun's. As we all know, the Diba tribe's sailboat hotel in later generations was two to three hundred meters high, 100 meters higher than Lanfang's, but it only had one main sail building, and
Gu Kun's model is shaped like a "three-masted sailboat" like the Sydney Shell Opera House, and there is a soaring tail sail tower that is directly lifted into the air with hollow steel columns. The style and design are definitely not worse than those of Diba, and no one in the world can do it.
It is said that there will be design references between these two hotels.
Now the black swan incident has caused an unexpected depression in the tourism industry. Dibba's tourists are mainly from Europe, America and other Middle Eastern neighboring countries. After the black swan incident, Oceania strongly condemned Afghanistan, which also led to the kind of...
Citizens who don’t know much about the outside world have a high level of distrust towards countries throughout the Middle East, which affects the choice of outbound travel to these countries.
Don't think that the weird idea of "treating all Middle Eastern countries as one type of country" is so rare in the eyes of Oceania citizens.
The people of Oceania are very famous for their arrogance and ignorance of the world. Most of the people of Oceania are typical "only know that there are two countries in the world, Oceania and other countries." There are even funny people who want to choose the leader in the TV debate.
Think of Africa as a country.
Therefore, it is only natural that the Afghans have offended others, causing everyone in the North American market to implicate the entire Middle East world, and increasing the sense of resistance.
Although Iprasin's Burj Al Arab Hotel will not open for business for more than three months, he originally wanted to learn Gu Kun's "advance booking" technique, but now it seems that he is going to lose everything.
And the income of many tourism projects that Diba had built before has begun to decline sharply at a speed visible to the naked eye. Some of these projects have also received a lot of investment from Mahathir, so the pressure from investors on entrepreneurs has also suddenly increased.
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One day at the end of September, Iprasim, who was in a state of distress, received an invitation from Mahathir to the Hongmen Banquet.
When Iprasin's female secretary passed the news over, she didn't dare to express her anger, lest the boss would vent his anger on her:
"Boss, Mr. Mahathir from the Abu Dhabi Consortium will come tomorrow and invite you to get together. It may be to audit the operating performance and subsequent project reduction expenditures."