Chapter 96. Undersea Hotel

     Li Yaolin checked the turnover for the past five months. The opening of the hotel brought an additional revenue of more than 400,000 yuan to Xingzhou Island every day. It has been 100 days since the opening, and the total turnover is more than 40 million yuan.

     With this 40 million yuan, the turnover of Xingzhou Island exceeded 300 million in less than half a year.

     Looking at the Romantic Sea House Group behind the Romantic Sea House Resort, from their first quarter financial analysis report, it can be seen that the turnover of the Romantic Sea House Resort is only 70 million yuan, which is a significant decrease compared with each quarter of last year.

     In addition, the increase in various costs and expenses has made its net profit in a loss state, with a loss of at least more than 80 million yuan, which is more and more compared with the losses in the past few quarters. No wonder they are so anxious to deal with Xingzhou Island.

     In addition to making money from the project, Xingzhou Island also saved 80 million yuan in development funds. According to the calculation that the number of tourists allowed to land on the island every day is 4,000, the number of tourists received in less than half a year should not reach 800,000.

     However, in fact, the number of tourists received is calculated on a daily basis. Those tourists who chose to stay on the island overnight the day before are also recalculated the next day, so Xingzhou Island has at least 450,000 yuan in development funds every day.

     Originally, Li Yaolin wanted to continue saving this money and then build a big project, but these opponents who tried to encircle her aroused her fighting spirit.

     She has tens of thousands of hectares of sea area for use, and she doesn’t have to rely on land to attract tourists.

     Li Yaolin opened the APP and tried to plan several “underwater hotels” in the south of Xingzhou Island, where there are currently the fewest operating projects.

     She is not sure whether Poseidon Holiday APP will support the development of this project. After all, the cost of building in the sea is not low, and it is related to the damage and pollution of the marine environment.

     However, all marine activities will damage and pollute the marine environment. The difference lies in the severity of the degree.

     The more damage and pollution a project has, the higher the operating cost charged by the APP, and these costs are also the price used to repair the marine environment.

     In Li Yaolin’s conception, the biggest impact of this underwater hotel on the marine environment is its foundation and sewage problems.

     She plans to refer to Tanzania’s “floating hotel”, not laying a foundation but using four anchors to fix it to reduce damage to the submarine environment. But unlike the “floating hotel”, she will also build a bridge connecting the island and the hotel. At that time, the hotel’s cables will be connected through this bridge, which is both beautiful and does not require the laying of submarine cables.

     As for the sewage problem, she can connect to the “fresh water extraction system”, which can not only solve the fresh water problem in the hotel, but also includes sewage treatment in the price of 100 yuan per ton. The sewage problem on the island has never worried her so far.

     After solving the pollution problem, the remaining issues are the hotel’s safety and the design of the infrastructure.

     Li Yaolin added all the conditions that could be considered into the planning scheme of this project, and finally chose to use the 20% discount card and submit it.

 

  【Do you want to spend 1.4 million yuan to build a main building of an underwater hotel? 】

 

     Li Yaolin was relieved when she saw this reminder pop up, which meant that her planning conditions were supported by the system, and thus the hotel’s safety and other issues were also guaranteed.

     Seeing the “main building”, she suddenly thought of something and hurriedly asked the butler to open the “Poseidon Market”.

     “I remember that not long after the total development progress reached 100%, the Poseidon Market opened the ‘Marine Building Materials’ area, but at that time I had already planned to build the East Pier, breakwater, etc., and later no new buildings were built, so I never visited this area properly.”

     Li Yaolin said, “But since it is called ‘Marine Building Materials’, can it be used in the sea?”

     The housekeeper responded: “Marine building materials are marine engineering building materials to be precise, mainly marine metals, which have…”

     Li Yaolin was overwhelmed by what she heard, and she said: “Just tell me if there are any decoration materials I need here.”

     Unlike previous buildings that were directly decorated, this time the building only has the main body, that is, it is a building that is more rough than rough, and the decoration of the walls and the interior of the building still depends on her spending extra money, thoughts and energy to solve.

     The housekeeper replied: “Yes, the decoration materials needed for the underwater hotel built by the island owner can be purchased in this special area, which will greatly improve the safety of the building, can withstand the impact of twenty giant sharks, and there is no need to worry about it being blown away by the wind when a level 14 typhoon hits. Not only that, this material produced by the Poseidon Market can reduce pollution to the marine environment, has a long service life, and can be remanufactured and used after recycling and decomposition, which is green and environmentally friendly.”

     Li Yaolin felt relieved: the materials for decorating the underwater hotel were also available.

     She asked the housekeeper to calculate and purchase the materials needed to build and decorate the underwater hotel based on the development funds and various costs.

     After the scientific and careful calculations of the housekeeper, it said: “Considering the operating costs, it is recommended to build eight underwater hotels in the first phase. The materials required are pure titanium and titanium alloy, aluminum alloy, plexiglass…”

     After such calculations, the construction cost of the eight underwater hotels reached 22 million yuan. However if Li Yaolin built these hotels in a way that minimizes the damage and impact on the marine environment, and as a semi-open place, it does not need to accommodate too many tourists, so its daily operating cost is only 2,800 yuan, which is lower than the white beach and other attractions.

     From the appearance, an underwater hotel looks like a cruise ship, with a total of three floors, 3 meters underwater for one floor, a total of 12 square meters, and only one room, three walls of which are plexiglass curtain walls, and the bottom is plexiglass floor, which can directly see the scenery of the seabed.

     As for whether this kind of room that is neither up nor down will scare the guests, it is not within the scope of Li Yaolin’s consideration. After all, her positioning of the hotel is to meet the psychological needs of the guests who pursue tension and excitement. People with deep-sea phobia are not the target customer group of this hotel.

     There are two floors on the water. The first floor has two rooms, a bathroom and a small courtyard with a sofa. There is a staircase connecting the first floor underwater and the second floor on the sea between the two rooms.

     The second floor is the top floor, there are no rooms, just a rooftop. In the center of the rooftop is a water tower connected to the “fresh water extraction system”, so that tourists’ fresh water and sewage problems are solved.

     Tourists can go fishing on the top floor, sunbathe, and even dive around.

 

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     When Vice President Qi was distressed by the exclusion of Xingzhou Island, he found that the owner of his own island was not in a hurry at all, and she still did what she had to do every day.

     But if you say she is careless, she is not really careless. At least from her unwillingness to pay attention to Wenhua Group, she is still a little angry, but I don’t know what tricks she has.

     Wenhua Group still wants to protest, and Vice President Qi doesn’t know how the other party has the nerve to say this.

     On the surface, it and its travel agencies have not taken any actions against Xingzhou Island, but it has released the news in advance before the cooperation with Xingzhou Island has been reached, causing its own stocks to rise sharply. Isn’t this purely using Xingzhou Island!

     Besides, if they use it, they use it. The island owner doesn’t care. But when Xingzhou Island was targeted and excluded, they didn’t show the sincerity they should have in seeking cooperation!

     In the final analysis, although a behemoth like Wenhua Group with a market value of more than 40 billion has noticed Xingzhou Island, it will not pay attention to it. It wants to cooperate because it is profitable, and it won’t lose much if the cooperation fails.

     Besides, if Xingzhou Island is forced into a desperate situation, it may put down its posture and actively seek cooperation with a large enterprise like it, and their negotiations can turn from passive to active.

     After pondering for a while, when Vice President Qi vaguely felt that he would go bald if he continued to worry like this, he comforted himself in time:

     For a scenic spot, the most important thing is the source of tourists. Only with the source of tourists can a scenic spot overcome the predicament of insufficient tourists in the early stage of development. If it is “banned” by other scenic spots and travel agencies, it will really be a failure.

     However, Xingzhou Island is a special case. After all, its operating model of “not receiving group tourists, only receiving individual tourists” is fundamentally different from other scenic spots. To put it bluntly, it does not rely on travel agencies to transport tourists for it. Even if travel agencies want to ban Xingzhou Island, they can only ban it in vain.

     So the travel agencies just want to test the bottom line of Xingzhou Island and will not really stab Xingzhou Island in the back.

     As for the small actions of the coastal tourist attractions next to it, they cannot shake the foundation of Xingzhou Island, because the island owner’s business route has always been to focus on tourism quality and improve the competitiveness of Xingzhou Island’s products, which is the core of a tourism brand.

     She did it. For the same project experience, let alone the coastal scenic spots in Youshi, even the islands in Qionghai may not dare to say that they can surpass Xingzhou Island.

     Now Xingzhou Island has become a demonstration area for national island tourism projects. Many coastal cities have organized groups to come to Xingzhou Island for research and want to learn from its experience.

     Besides, under the effect of the confidentiality agreement, Xingzhou Island is like an iron barrel. Even if others make small moves, it is difficult to get into Xingzhou Island and cause any incidents that will affect the brand image of Xingzhou Island.

     “You are worthy of being the island owner. You must have thought of the suppression of your peers at the beginning of the development of the island. So in order to avoid being controlled by serious product homogeneity, you have found another way to win by surprise…” Vice President Qi sighed.

     Li Yaolin: “?”

     Although I don’t know what you have imagined, please use your brain. It’s not what you think!

     The little mermaid has already handled the project establishment procedures for the “Undersea Hotel”. Li Yaolin told Vice President Qi that she spent tens of millions to build the hotel.

     Vice President Qi was so shocked that his jaw could not close for a long time.

     The cost of these eight underwater hotels is too high, right? It’s almost catching up with the Sea God Holiday Hotel.

     I don’t know what he was thinking, he suddenly realized and said: “It turns out that the island owner is not too lazy to deal with those jumping clowns, but is preparing to do something quietly… No, quietly plan to give them a head-on blow!”

     Li Yaolin remembered a chicken soup she heard from somewhere, and said: “Continuously developing the characteristic tourism products of Xingzhou Island is the best response to them. Besides, I didn’t say to let them go.”

     She remembered that when the diving project was first developed, a large number of water armies slandered Xingzhou Island on the Internet. Later, all the projects developed would be accompanied by these doubts. Wasn’t it the work of these people?

     For so long, she has been adhering to the concept of leaving some soup for everyone, and did not respond to the other party, but just wanted to quietly manage Xingzhou Island.

     But through this incident, she has seen clearly that even if she has no intention of being enemies with these peers, and even actively promotes some projects to improve transportation convenience and cooperate with the government’s development plan of the tourism economic circle, so that everyone can benefit from it.

     But these people will not be grateful to her.

     They were like poisonous snakes lurking in the grass. When she stayed in her territory to weed, they watched her closely, but they would not make any big moves. Once she wanted to step out of the circle, they would come out, spit out their tongues, and threaten her to shrink back, otherwise they would bite her.

     So this time, she not only wanted to scare the snakes, but also took advantage of the hoe in her hand to hit them on the head when they appeared.

     Even if she couldn’t kill them with one stick, she had to teach them a lesson, so that she wouldn’t have to worry about whether these poisonous snakes would attack her when she wanted to go out of the circle in the future.

 

……

 

     When Fang Xinhua finished a dinner and left the International Hotel, he met Yu Fan, who took the initiative to greet him. His smile was hypocritical and his tone was a bit weird:

     “Mr. Fang, how are you? Have you made a lot of money recently?”

     Fang Xinhua said, “Not as much as Mr. Yu!”

     “How could it be? Xingzhou Island is so popular. I’m afraid your dividends from the diving base are equal to the sum of several projects you invested in! Didn’t Mr. Li take you to other projects?”

     Fang Xinhua pulled the corner of his mouth.

     In the past, although he and Yu Fan didn’t have a close relationship, they still had contacts and spoke to each other quite politely. But since Yu Fan’s club was on the verge of bankruptcy and was invested by the holding company of Romantic Sea House Resort and revived, he suddenly became arrogant.

     However, it is no wonder that the holding company of Romantic Sea House Resort, Romantic Sea House Group, is a Hong Kong company. Although its market value is not as high as that of Mandarin Group, it is also 20 billion. Yu Fan is like boarding a big ship to get the support of the other party. Facing the former “enemy”, he will naturally not be polite.

     This method of sowing discord is too low-level, Fang Xinhua does not like it.

     “Mr. Yu is joking. The ship that Mr. Li and I are on is a small ship. We have to stick together under any circumstances. It’s not like Mr. Yu, who is on a cruise ship.”

     Yu Fan said with a smile: “Since you are going to stick together, I won’t advise you to find another way out as soon as possible.”

     He paused, pretending to remember, and said: “By the way, if Mr. Fang has paid attention to the hydrogen energy industry planning recently, he should know that Yóushì is going to introduce a hydrogen energy group company to build a hydrogen battery industry base in Yóushì. The current site selection may be in the Liantou Port area.”

     Fang Xinhua frowned. Now the country is vigorously developing new energy industries, and hydrogen energy belongs to new energy. Although this type of energy has less pollution, hydrogen batteries have a relatively large demand for coal, oil and natural gas in the production process, so it will have a very big impact on the environment.

     Once the industrial base of hydrogen batteries is established in Liantou Port, it means that the value of Jiahai being developed will be lower, because it will eventually be like the coastlines of Yuhai Park and Romantic Sea House, with turbid sea water and jellyfish corpses washed ashore everywhere on the beach…

     What’s more, it is also close to the reserve and Xingzhou Island. If the marine environment is affected, sea turtles will get sick, dugongs will become extinct, and the pollution problem that Xingzhou Island has worked hard to deal with will reappear, then the advantages of Xingzhou Island will be gone.

     As soon as Wenhua Group spread the word that it wanted to develop Jiahai, someone wanted to choose the hydrogen battery industrial base nearby.

     He didn’t believe it would be so coincidental.

     This may be the work of Wenhua Group’s rivals, but Yu Fan is so proud, and it is obvious that Romantic Sea House Group has also contributed.

     Yu Fan’s smile grew brighter and brighter: “Big ships have their advantages. At least when a small ship collides with it, it is the small ship that will sink.”

     Thinking of what Fang Xinhua had warned him before, he finally felt proud.

     He walked away, and Fang Xinhua looked at his back and said to himself: “I don’t know if he has seen a movie called Titanic… No matter how big the cruise ship is, it will still sink when it encounters an iceberg?”

     He always felt that Li Yaolin and the forces behind her were unfathomable, and Xingzhou Island was just the tip of the iceberg exposed on the sea.

     At the same time, Li Yaolin also received news that Yóushì was going to improve the hydrogen energy industry chain and might build a factory near Liantou Port.