Chapter 48. Special Attraction

     After settling Zheng Xuan and Lin Qitong, Li Yaolin finally had time to think about how to spend her five million yuan.

     For the first time, she felt distressed because she didn’t know how to spend the money.

     It sounds very “Versailles”, but in fact, five million yuan is not too little, not too much.

     Five million yuan is enough to build three or four hundred holiday cabins, but it can’t even build a three-star hotel. – Let alone a three-star hotel, even an economy hotel costs more than 10 million yuan. I’m afraid that her five million yuan will not even make a splash.

     So she first ruled out building a star hotel or guesthouse.

     Of course, she can also build nothing, not spend a penny, and be happy to see it in the account. But rather than saving money, she wants to make money with money.

     The next National Day will usher in a peak of tourism, and ten cabins are still a little less. How about building more holiday cabins?

     Li Yaolin remembered that she had a team and didn’t need to think about it alone like before, so she called the managers of each department and supervisors at all levels to hold a meeting, the theme of which was “whether to build more holiday cabins”.

     Department managers & supervisors at all levels: “…”

     Should we say that the island owner is really rich?

     She built a buffet restaurant without saying a word, and then planned to build more cabins. Didn’t she have a shortage of funds?

     Sometimes it is difficult to reach a consensus when there are too many people. For example, someone suggested that building a hotel is more cost-effective than building a holiday cabin. As for what to do if there is not enough money to build a hotel? Go to the bank for a loan. The value of Xingzhou Island is hundreds of millions. It is not easy to get a loan of tens of millions!

     Li Yaolin knocked on the little mermaid: “Are you there? Can I go to the bank for a loan?”

     Little mermaid: “It is recommended that the island owner develop and operate the island through her own efforts. Don’t try to take shortcuts and rely on external forces!”

     Li Yaolin: “…”

     She knew it!

     Some people also think that instead of spending all the money on accommodation, it is better to allocate part of it to develop some water projects.

     Seeing the topic gradually deviating, Li Yaolin had to reiterate the theme of the meeting: “Today’s meeting is mainly to let you analyze from a professional perspective whether it is necessary to build more holiday cabins at this stage, how many cabins are more appropriate to build, and how much budget is needed, without discussing other things.”

     After she said this, everyone’s focus returned to the theme of the meeting.

     After discussion and analysis, everyone believed that when the cabins were built, the peak tourist season would be over. Considering the number of tourists in the off-season, there is no need to build too many holiday cabins, twenty cabins are enough.

     This part of the budget is 500,000 yuan, including the cost of the cabins and the purchase of fire safety related equipment.

     In addition, Xingzhou Island can consider opening camping rights and demarcating an area dedicated to camping in the flat areas of the island.

     In this way, it can not only alleviate the problem of insufficient cabin rooms caused by the peak of tourism during the National Day holiday, but also save the excess energy consumption caused by the low occupancy rate of holiday cabins during the off-season.

     When Li Yaolin heard this idea, her eyes lit up: “This is a good idea!”

     Camping was not allowed before because the island’s infrastructure was not perfect and the safety of tourists was difficult to guarantee. Now these problems have been solved, so it is time to relax the conditions appropriately.

     However, camping will damage the ecological environment of the island and bring pollution problems.

     The gardener’s suggestion is to build a camping platform and use artificial turf in the campsite, which will not damage the ecology, reduce the infestation of pests, and do not have to worry about high tides and rainy days.

     “The number of campers cannot be opened without restrictions. According to the environment on the island, it is recommended that the campsite be around 1,200 square meters, and the rental camping sites should be planned according to the size of the campsite. Large camping sites are 40 square meters, about 800 a day; medium camping sites are 30 square meters, about 600 a day; small camping sites are 12 square meters, about 200 a day.

     “The time period is from 9 am to 6 pm. If you stay overnight, you will pay an overnight management fee of 400 to 2,000 yuan. In addition, this is the price without tents. If tents are included, it will be more than this price. A few hundred yuan should be added to this price..

     Li Yaolin: “…”

     Good fellow, a gardener is a profiteer. No, he has a higher talent for business than her!

     After the meeting, Li Yaolin quietly tried to plan a camping area on the APP.

     As expected, the higher the cost of ecological restoration and pollution control, the higher the development and operation costs. It takes 250,000 yuan to develop a 1,200 square meter camping platform (only 200,000 yuan after using a discount card). She calculated based on this development cost that the operating cost for one day is about 2,000 to 3,000 yuan.

     After weighing the costs and benefits, Li Yaolin finally decided to develop a camping area.

     Its site is located to the west of Xingzhou Island. According to the camping The size of the land is built into a stepped camping site.

     It is behind the mountain, facing the sea in the snorkeling area, overlooking the reserve to the north, and wooden houses standing among trees and flower beds to the south.

     This location is not far from the public toilet, so it is very convenient for campers to go to the toilet. If you want to take a shower, walk one or two hundred meters to the shower room on the other side of the reception hall.

     When the time comes, some pipes will be laid around the camping area, making it much more convenient for tourists to use tap water.

   【Camping Area (Level 1)】

     Popularity: 0/100

     Pollution Index: 45 (Level 5 Pollution)

     Operation Cost: 2,000 yuan/day

     After planning to build more holiday cabins and develop camping areas, Li Yaolin decided to remove the fence of the reserve and build a road around the island instead, and then build a sound barrier on the side of the reserve. .

     This can not only reduce the noise made by tourists passing by, but also allow tourists to see the turtles and seabirds on the beach and reefs through the glass of the sound barrier.

     Of course, it cannot be completely isolated. A terrace can be built every 500 meters to facilitate tourists to take photos and interact with seabirds.

     Once the ring road is completed, it will no longer be a luxury for tourists to go to the east of the island to watch the sunrise, and they can also buy some bicycles to let tourists ride around the island.

     Some trees and flower beds are transplanted on the inside of the road, and some chairs are placed under the trees. Tourists can walk and ride here, and they can rest in the shade of the trees when they are tired.

     The total length of the coastline of Xingzhou Island is only 6.61 kilometers. The road around the island is not built close to the coastline, so the total length is only about 5 kilometers.

     Two kilometers have been built before, and now Now it can be extended by 3 kilometers and widened by 1.5 meters, so that the whole road can be 3 meters wide and 5 kilometers long. With supporting facilities such as street lights, tree beds and chairs, the cost is about 1.2 million yuan, which is 960,000 yuan after discount.

     In addition to the buildings and infrastructure projects for external services, the internal office environment also needs to be upgraded.

     Li Yaolin’s office has always been in a small house behind the ticket office. There can only be three desks here, and it would be crowded if there are more.

     Later, various departments were established, and employees had nowhere to stay, so she built a few mobile cabins next to them as temporary offices for various departments.

     Although no one would dislike such an office environment, the mobile cabins are not beautiful enough, and even with air conditioning, they are very hot and noisy, so she planned to build an office building.

     Three floors of the office building are enough, and each floor has an area of at least 300 square meters. The second and third floors are offices of various departments, and the first floor is used as an employee cafeteria and activity room. There are some books in the activity room so that employees can read books in their spare time.

     According to the previous construction project cost, it would cost one million yuan to build this building (after discount), and it would cost hundreds of thousands to purchase office supplies, etc., so that the five million yuan just received would only be left with more than two million yuan.

     She did not plan to touch the two million yuan and keep it for emergency use.

     As for normal operating cost expenditures, just deduct it from daily revenue.

     Li Yaolin checked the daily revenue and was prepared for a decrease in revenue, but she did not expect that after entering September, the student tourists dropped sharply, and the ticket revenue increased!

     Through financial analysis, she found that this was probably because after the students returned to school, fewer half-price tickets were sold and more original-price tickets were sold.

      ——In the past, 300 student tourists could only bring 3,000 yuan in ticket revenue, but now 150 ordinary tourists can bring the same revenue.

     What’s more interesting is that after the student tourists decreased, the ordinary tourists increased, and a considerable number of them were middle-aged people.

     Li Yaolin suddenly thought of a joke on the Internet, which roughly means that after the children start school, parents happily send their children away, then arrange dates, carry out travel activities, and enjoy a leisurely life…

     Now seeing this data, she thinks this joke is probably true.

     There are also some retired middle-aged and elderly people who come to the island for leisure and tourism, and they also heard about the rumor that making wishes on Xingzhou Island is very effective, so they come here specifically for superstition.

     If they were not found to be carrying suspicious items such as lighters, incense, and paper money when they passed the security check when entering the island, they would have to burn incense and paper money on the island.

     Some people even left messages in the tourist suggestion box, asking Xingzhou Island to build a wishing tree or put a tripod so that they have a place to burn paper and incense.

     Li Yaolin: “…”

     I suggest you stop making suggestions.

     In short, in the first half of September, the ticket revenue of Xingzhou Island was about 10,000 yuan every weekday; on weekends, except for the second-to-last and last boats in the afternoon, there were still 30 to 40 tickets left, and the rest of the boats were almost full. The number of tourists in a day was more than 800, and the ticket revenue was more than 15,000 yuan.

     In the past half month, the number of tourists reached 9,000, and the ticket revenue was about 175,000 yuan. According to the agreement between Xingzhou Island and the reserve, 9,000 yuan of it belonged to the reserve.

     Not to mention that with the blessing of Poseidon, she also had a 900,000 yuan project subsidy brought by the number of tourists. ——She can get nearly 2 million subsidies every month.

     She decided to save these subsidies and build a hotel when she saved 20 million!

     The revenue of convenience stores is relatively stable, which maybe because the number of student tourists, who are the main consumers of snacks and beverages, has decreased, and the newly added middle-aged tourists are not the main consumers of these products.

     But the sales of bread have increased significantly, making up for the revenue difference of snacks and beverages.

     Regarding the sales of bread, at first, tourists bought bread to feed seabirds, because the seabirds on Xingzhou Island are willful and don’t eat bread crumbs bought outside.

     Later, they felt that the seabirds had been so hard to promote the convenience store on the island, and if they didn’t buy some to eat themselves, it seemed a bit sorry for the advertisement of the seabirds.

     Anyway, the things sold in the convenience store on Xingzhou Island are not expensive, so just buy them and try them! With the advertisement of seabirds, at least there is no need to worry about food safety issues.

     Li Yaolin: “…”

     This is really something she didn’t understand. After all, the bread in her store is purchased from outside wholesale and is not a product produced by Poseidon Market.

     However, on the issue of food safety, she and the tourists have the same idea. She also doesn’t want Xingzhou Island to be exposed to food safety issues, so the manufacturers she finds are all selected by the little mermaid, and their reputation and credibility are very reliable.

     In addition to tickets and convenience stores, the most profitable project on Xingzhou Island is the fishing gear and bait sold on e-commerce platforms, with daily sales of 10,000 to 20,000 yuan.

     The daily operating costs of Xingzhou Island are paid from the above income, and it can barely maintain a balance between income and expenditure.

     As for the revenue from the diving center and boat tickets, although they are also counted in the turnover by the system, that part of the profit has to be shared with others, so Li Yaolin did not touch that part of the money.

     After the infrastructure was built, the island information of the APP was updated:

 

   【Island】 Xingzhou Island

   【Island Owner】 Li Yaolin +

   【Area】 4.3 square kilometers (430 hectares: 220 hectares of island land area/210 hectares of sea area)

   【Development Progress】• Infrastructure + 45% (1 reservoir, 3 public toilets, simple dock, gate, power system, 5KM road and supporting facilities, sunshade pavilion, convenience store, employee dormitory, reception hall building complex, incubator, 30 holiday homes, seafood buffet restaurant, office building)

     • Recreation Facilities +10% (Level 3 fishing grounds, Level 3 white sand beach, Level 1 diving base, Level 1 camping area)

     • Environmental protection facilities +12% (no-fishing zone, municipal marine ecological special protection zone)

   【Business level】Level 3+

   【Rating】 None

   【Sea God Satisfaction】 34

 

…

 

    Li Yaolin was a little confused: “After building so many basic buildings, the progress is only 45%? Could it be that the site has become larger, so the corresponding calculation method has also changed?”

     The system and the little mermaid would not give her an answer, so she stopped thinking about it.

     She noticed that in addition to the white sand beach, the diving base also prompted that it could be upgraded. In fact, the news that the diving base could be upgraded was several days ago. At that time, she was planning the opening of the buffet restaurant, so she forgot about it.

     Now the response to the diving base is very good. Tourists who have experienced it say it is good, and the number of people is still growing steadily. There are not enough diving coaches and diving masters, so the store manager has to recruit two more.

     Li Yaolin didn’t have to worry about the upgraded white beach stealing customers from the diving shop, so she simply upgraded both attractions. 

     “White Beach successfully upgraded to Level 4 and became a special attraction!”

 

   【White Beach (Special)】

     Popularity: 20579

     Pollution Index: 1 (micro-pollution)

     Operation Cost: 10,000 yuan/day

 

     【Level 1 Diving Base upgraded successfully!】

 

   【Diving Base (Level 2)】]

     Popularity: 324/1000

     Pollution Index: 26 (Level 3 Pollution)

     Operation Cost: 6,000 yuan/day

 

     “White Beach became a special attraction after upgrading to Level 4, but the limit of the sea fishing field upgrade is Level 3, and it cannot become a special attraction… Can I understand that this is related to the ecological environment?” 

     Li Yaolin pondered. The higher the grade of the sea fishing ground, the better the fish situation, and more people will flock to fish. If everyone uses the bait of Xingzhou Island, won’t the fish of Xingzhou Island be caught?

     White sand beach is different. The higher its grade, the lower the pollution index, and the better the ecological environment.

      As for the difference between the special white sand beach and the past, she is not clear yet.

     At this time, on the white sand beach, Zhang Mei was lying under a parasol, looking at her daughter and husband playing on the beach from a distance, with a happy smile on her face.

     She is already a frequent visitor to Xingzhou Island, coming here once or twice a month, sometimes with her husband and daughter, sometimes with her parents and friends.

     Every time she comes, Xingzhou Island can give her a different experience. Xingzhou Island has changed so much that she is afraid that she will not recognize the island if she does not come for a long time.

     Also, it is becoming more and more difficult to get tickets to Xingzhou Island. Sometimes she has to start buying tickets three days in advance.

     This time, she finally managed to get the tickets. Since her husband was not available, she insisted that he turn down unnecessary social activities and accompany her. In fact, she did not insist on having someone accompany her. She mainly wanted her husband to help look after their daughter while she enjoyed her leisure time.

     The temperature in Yóushì has reached 35℃, but on Xingzhou Island, she felt that the temperature has been below 29℃, and the comfortable sea breeze made her feel a little sleepy.

     Just as she was about to fall asleep, she suddenly felt something moving under her. She got up in horror and lifted the mat to see, but found nothing.

     She lay back in confusion, and the next second she felt that she was lying on a massage chair, and something was pushing her shoulders and back, which slowly relieved her stiff muscles and bones due to long-term desk work.

     “No, how did I fall asleep?!” Zhang Mei was startled, and got up again to lift the mat to check, but no matter whether she was digging sand or digging a pit, there was no creature on the white beach. It lay quietly on the island, letting Zhang Mei toss.

     Zhang Mei: “Am I hallucinating?”

     Soon she found that this was not her hallucination, because other tourists also found the “abnormality” of the white beach.

     They didn’t feel anything unusual when running, playing or sitting on the beach. Only when they lay down, they could vaguely feel the white sand moving irregularly, like a massage chair running at a low frequency.

     Everyone agreed that the white sand could give massages!