Chapter 55. Opponent

     The emergence of “Sea Fire” caused the vacation cabins and camping areas on Xingzhou Island to be fully booked during the National Day. Lin Qitong also saw some travel friends calling girls to camp together as a team in the group she created to promote the video. The more people camping, the better the deal. 

 

     This call has been responded to by many people, because these people want to spend the night on Xingzhou Island, but they can’t get a holiday cabin or a camping spot. Now that there are people who can join a group together, why are they still hesitating? !

 

     Some netizens in the group who didn’t know why asked them: “Aren’t you afraid of danger when camping with strangers?”

 

     The travel friend who called people to form a team said: “If you are camping in the wild, I am really worried, but camping on Xingzhou Island, there is no need to worry about this. It is just that when camping, it is a bit troublesome to take a shower. I wonder if you can I can bear it.”

 

     “I once rode from Chengdu to Lhasa, and I didn’t take a shower for half a month, so it’s just that the shower conditions were a bit poor. What are you afraid of?!”

 

     Group friends: “…”

 

     You can smell it through the screen.

 

 

 

     Lin Qitong told Li Yaolin about this situation and asked: “Aren’t there limits on the number of people? What if twelve people are crowded into a small camping area?”

 

     “As long as it’s not too exaggerated, just let them go! At worst, we need to register them. Those who haven’t registered will be treated as illegally landing on the island.”

 

     “You are surprisingly generous in this regard!”

 

     Li Yaolin asked her: “Why am I so stingy elsewhere?”

 

     “I’m not saying you’re stingy, I just think you’re not someone who’s good at losing money.”

 

     Li Yaolin smiled slightly and said: “Actually, what you mentioned are only a few cases, and we cannot increase the camping costs of other people because of these few cases.

 

     “Besides, when planning the camping area, I asked someone to calculate the area and layout of these camping spots. A medium camping spot can accommodate a large tent, but a small camping spot can never accommodate a medium tent. Tents, because the positions of the ground nails are fixed.

 

     “But our camping area happens to have the most small camping spaces, so if we control this well, there won’t be any big problems. Of course, when we launch the camping project, we will also have a ‘warm reminder’ to inform tourists of this in advance. ”

 

     Lin Qitong: “…”

 

     It’s because I’m too young.

 

     She said: “No, what if there are more than 20 people in the big tent? That’s 200 people in ten camping areas!”

 

     “Under what circumstances do you think there would be more than 20 people camping together?”

 

     “Company team building, student travel and so on!”

 

     “What do you think of the proportion of this kind of group camping?”

 

     Lin Qitong thought for a while: “It seems… not common.”

 

     “Isn’t that right! And if it’s a company team building, but more than 20 employees are arranged to squeeze into a tent, what do you think the employees will think?”

 

     “This company is too stingy.”

 

     “So only the student group can tolerate this environment. But, the question comes again, how can they ensure that everyone can grab tickets and reserve a place for the big camping?”

 

     Lin Qitong: “…”

 

     According to the current ticket sales situation of Xingzhou Island, especially with the restriction that only two thousand people can visit the island every day, and there are no group tickets on Xingzhou Island, it is really not easy for everyone to grab tickets.

 

     As for the situation where travel friends in the group call people to form a team, even if they can call people to form a team, they will not call too many people to save money. If there are more people, the quality of camping will be reduced, so what is the point of camping? ?

 

     Yes, I bet she is worrying too much.

 

     “How was your performance yesterday? I heard that your number of fans has increased by tens of thousands?”

 

     When the popular science blogger was live broadcasting, Lin Qitong also became popular, especially because her personal short video account had a lot of her work vlogs, which satisfied netizens’ desire to peek into the interior of Xingzhou Island, so there were so many at once Twenty thousand fans.

 

     Many new fans have watched every one of her work vlogs. Every time they see a girl leaving the country, they have to guess whether she is the rumored island owner. Some fans turned to the video of her promoting Xingzhou Island in June, in which Li Yaolin briefly appeared.

 

     Some people still have to guess: “Is that the island owner?”

 

     However, another netizen replied to her: “No, that’s the manager of the Xingzhou convenience store.”

 

    “I’ve been to Xingzhou Island, and convenience store managers don’t look like this.”

 

     “The cashier is in the store now, and the store manager has stopped looking at the store a long time ago.”

 

     “That’s right, no island owner would be so free to work as a convenience store manager.”

 

 

 

     Lin Qitong: “…”

 

     Congratulations to the netizens who perfectly missed the correct answer.

 

     She said: “You didn’t see what they looked like after they came up from the dive. Even the well-informed science blogger was a little dumbfounded. After he went back, he never said anything about plankton harming the marine ecology. Also , after the five lucky winners experienced diving, three of them signed up for the OW+AOW course, and they were completely hooked on diving.”

 

     “I believe that after this incident, there will be much less doubts about the diving area.”

 

     Li Yaolin can start the next project with confidence.

 

     She had previously asked Manager Qi to discuss with the director of the entertainment project management team to formulate a boat fishing project. After research and combined with the fish catch situation at the Xingzhou Island fishing ground, they came up with the cost and specific management methods of boat fishing.

 

     The director of the amusement project said: “Since this project has just been launched, we cannot take too big a step at once, so we first rent or buy a boat as the main vehicle for boat fishing, and then price it at 168 yuan per person, plus the round trip time, the total can be Experience three hours of sea fishing.”

 

     Li Yaolin asked: “168 yuan, does it include fishing gear and bait?”

 

     “Fishing gear is provided, but the bait is purchased separately.” The director of the entertainment project still knows the bait market on Xingzhou Island. He wants to include bait for 168 yuan. Isn’t this a loss-making business?

 

     Li Yaolin said: “But ordinary tourists don’t know the price of our bait. If the bait needs to be purchased separately, then boat fishing will not be attractive to them.”

 

     Manager Qi had an idea and said, “Mr. Li, what you mean is that we should distinguish ordinary tourists from professional fishermen?”

 

     “That’s not true. Ordinary tourists will not bring fishing rods to the island, and professional fishermen generally will not use our fishing gear, so we can provide lures so that ordinary tourists can experience sea fishing without buying bait. Fun. As for professional fishermen, they know their stuff and don’t need our guidance.”

 

     The director of the entertainment project asked: “Then why not simply separate ordinary tourists and professional fishermen? We can provide charter boats so that professional fishermen can charter boats to go fishing.”

 

     “I understand this!” Manager Qi said, “If ordinary tourists have never been exposed to lure fishing, it will be difficult for them to catch fish. If the boat fishes for three hours and does not catch any fish at all, it will destroy the confidence of tourists and make them They feel that boat fishing is a very boring and uninteresting sport, so they lose interest in boat fishing. However, if there are professional fishermen on the same boat and they can catch fish, it will give tourists confidence that they can do it too. After catching the fish, maybe some tourists will be willing to spend dozens of dollars more to buy bait?”

 

     The amusement project manager understood: “Oh, this is the so-called ‘catfish effect’, right?!”

 

     Manager Qi stroked his crew cut with a smile: “Isn’t it said that Mr. Li is a genius? She thinks farther than us!”

 

     The director of the amusement park also expressed admiration: “As expected of Mr. Li!”

 

     Li Yaolin: “…”

 

     Although I do have this consideration, aren’t you too naive?

 

     Li Yaolin dug her toes into the ground in embarrassment. In order to cover up her embarrassment, she took out a map of the sea area of Xingzhou Island and said: 

 

     “Currently, all entertainment projects on Xingzhou Island are concentrated in the west. The north is a protected area, so there is little possibility of development here. The popularity and utilization rate of the east and south are too low, so if we want to expand outward, this time the boat fishing trial site can be set up on the east side of the island…”

 

     There are amphioxus in the south, and there is no telling which day it will be restricted from development, so that side cannot be used as the main direction for development. The east side is just right.

 

     Li Yaolin circled an area and said, “Just this area. Then put buoys at both ends. Don’t cross the buoys when sailing.”

 

     Manager Qi asked: “Is it a little closer?”

 

     “The right to use this sea area still belongs to Xingzhou Island, but not to the farther sea areas. Fishing boats come and go, which is more dangerous. If anything happens in this area, it can be dealt with in time.”

 

     Manager Qi and the amusement project director had no other opinions, so Li Yaolin planned the designated area on the APP. This area happened to be after the new sea area was added and had not yet been included in the no-fishing zone.

 

     The system prompts: 

 

   【Do you want to spend 50,000 yuan to build a boat fishing spot?”】

 

     Li Yaolin chose “Yes”.

 

     The system also prompted: 

 

   【Creation successful! It has been detected that a sea fishing spot project already exists. The boat fishing spot can be merged with the project. Do you want to merge it?】

 

     Integrated into the sea fishing ground?

 

     Are there any benefits?

 

     Li Yaolin thought about it. Both boat fishing and shore fishing belong to sea fishing and can indeed be incorporated into this project, but are there any traps here?

 

     After only hesitating for a moment, Li Yaolin finally chose to trust the system and merge boat fishing into the management of the sea fishing ground.

 

   【The merger was successful, please check the [Sea Fishing Ground]+ for details.】

 

     Li Yaolin discovered that when the marine area was divided into functions, although the boat fishing spot and the sea fishing ground were not connected together, the functional area codes were the same, and the operating cost of the 【sea fishing ground】 only increased by 2,000 compared to before.

 

 

 

   【Sea Fishing Ground (Level 3)】+

 

     Popularity: 12458

 

     Pollution index: 10 (level 1 pollution)

 

     Operating cost: 7,000 yuan/day

 

 

 

     Li Yaolin said to herself: “If we don’t use Poseidon brand bait, I’m afraid the fish won’t be very good!”

 

     Who cares!

 

     It’s not like you can’t catch fish without using Poseidon brand bait. Some people can still catch fish, but the ones caught are either inedible fish or more common fish.

 

     After Li Yaolin develops the boat fishing spots, she will classify the remaining areas into no-fishing zones. This will ensure that only people who experience boat fishing near the boat fishing spots will have better fish catches.

 

     Li Yaolin rented two fishing boats from a shipping company. The fishing boats could only carry 15 people at most. The rent for each boat was 80,000 yuan a year, and the lease was set for five years.

 

     Now that the boat fishing vehicles are in place, the next step is to promote sea fishing.

 

     However, on the second day after boat fishing was promoted on Xingzhou Island and two days before the National Day, Li Yaolin heard from anglers Lao Li and others that many boat operators near the pier began to imitate Xingzhou Island and engage in “high-quality boat fishing for 5 hours. 100 yuan per person” sea fishing project.

 

     Moreover, they used vague words like “the sea area adjacent to Xingzhou Island” very stupidly. Tourists could only see the enlarged words “Xingzhou Island” and thought it was in the waters of Xingzhou Island, thus ignoring this The fact that the boat fishing project has nothing to do with Xingzhou Island.

 

     In comparison, three hours of boat fishing on Xingzhou Island costs 168 yuan per person, and the package they offer is much more cost-effective.

 

     Not to mention, some individual tourists who decided to visit Xingzhou Island on the spur of the moment but couldn’t buy tickets were really tempted. After paying the money and getting on the boat, after the boatman gathered ten people, they were taken to the waters near Xingzhou Island for sea fishing. 

 

     Without anyone to guide them, they couldn’t catch anything, and they had to be tricked into paying high prices for bait on the boat. It’s okay not to buy, but if there is any demand, the boat owner will ignore it, making them feel the cold violence from the boat owner.

 

     Also, after the promised five hours, in the end tourists often request to return early due to various reasons such as hunger, urgency to urinate, thirst, etc. Therefore, including the round trip time, four hours is already considered a long time.

 

     I wasted four hours and one hundred yuan on the sea. I wanted the scenery but not the scenery, I wanted the sea fishing experience but not the sea fishing experience, and I had to endure the sultry weather and the salty sea breeze. What a waste of money!

 

     Although they blamed the boatman for being deceptive, they also complained about Xingzhou Island. They felt that the sea water on Xingzhou Island was not that clean even with their naked eyes. The hype on the Internet turned out to be false!

 

     Li Yaolin went to Captain Pan to report this situation. Captain Pan said: “We have received the report a long time ago, but they are not lying. After all, there is no rule that the boat must ensure that tourists can catch fish, right? And they The publicity is just taking advantage of the popularity of Xingzhou Island. It has not touched the law and cannot be banned. “

 

     “Do they have a business license?”

 

     Captain Pan said: “Sea fishing clubs have relevant certificates. Many of those boat operators cooperate with sea fishing clubs. The clubs provide docks, and the boat operators recommend their own bait when tourists go fishing. The money for the bait goes to the club, and the boat operators get a commission. , the income from tourists renting boats belongs to the boat owners, and the boat owners rent some piers to the club.”

 

    Even if a boat only goes out to sea twice a day and takes ten tourists in one trip, it still earns 2,000 yuan. After deducting the cost, it also has a profit of more than 1,500 yuan. The profit from a fishing trip may not be that much. No wonder boat owners are willing to cooperate with fishing clubs.

 

     Li Yaolin smiled. It was really interesting. It turned out that this time the opponent was the fishing club.