Super Resort Tycoon

Chapter 231 This Is What a Resort Should Be Like

After listening to the introduction of the system, it took a long time for Li Yang to calm down, and he began to think rationally about this task...

"Complete the M&A within three months, the time is a bit tight!" Li Yang complained. Although the system will provide him with enough funds, it is not as simple as going to the supermarket to buy mineral water.

In addition to cross-border mergers and acquisitions, there must be many unforeseen difficulties. Although Li Yang is different from mergers and acquisitions, it is not an easy task when you think about it.

"You must hurry up!" Li Yang immediately called Michel and told her about the task.

"Well, time is really tight. Asset mergers and acquisitions are not as simple as equity mergers and acquisitions. Asset mergers and acquisitions require due diligence on each asset and transfer of ownership for each asset. The procedures are very complicated and take a long time. But the risk is relatively low!" explains Mihir.

"Okay, you are mainly responsible for this matter, you should come up with a plan immediately!" Li Yang said.

Mihir quickly started to prepare the plan for the merger and acquisition, and Li Yang began to inquire about knowledge related to mergers and acquisitions. After all, although Mihir was there, Li Yang also knew that if he did not learn and make progress, he would never be able to become that The true owner of the resort.

In the next few days, Li Yang was trying to supplement the relevant knowledge of overseas mergers and acquisitions, as well as relevant information about the Four Seasons Hotel. Of course, Mihir helped to collect and sort out a lot of information. Contest, knowing yourself and the enemy can win a hundred battles.

Four Seasons Hotel is an international luxury hotel management group. Since its establishment in 1961, it has owned more than 40 hotels and resort hotels in nearly 90 countries. It is definitely one of the best hotel groups in the world.

The resort hotel they want to acquire this time has been rated as the world's best luxury resort many times, and it is also the "Most Beautiful Four Seasons Hotel in the Pacific", with a market valuation of about 12 billion yuan.

At present, Li Yang is not the only one who intends to acquire this resort hotel. In the past two years, he has contacted a lot of capital with the Four Seasons Hotel Group.

But according to Mihir's analysis, this time Li Yang's two main competitors are actually from China, and they are two companies that Li Yang never dreamed of.

One is Ali and the other is Tencent. Li Yang should not be too familiar with these two. They are almost two Internet giants that grew up with Li Yang.

It's just that he didn't expect these two giants to be interested in the resort hotel industry. Could it be that the rich are really so willful, spending more than one billion just to buy themselves a resort?
The answer is naturally no. After reading the relevant materials, Li Yang realized that his structure and cognition have not reached the level after all. There is a lot of room for improvement. I still have a long way to go if I want to be like the two old horses.

But the most important thing for a person is to have self-knowledge, and only by knowing one's own shortcomings can one grow faster.

According to the data, Ali’s layout of the tourism industry can be traced back to the establishment of Taobao Travel in 2010, and has been adjusted several times to the current Ali Fliggy era.Relying on its strong platform structure and guarantees in terms of technology, payment, credit, and finance, Ali Fliggy's growth prospects cannot be underestimated.

And Ali also escorted the overseas travel market that "Fliggy" focuses on all the way. The members of its tourism industry investment layout include: AutoNavi Maps, Qyer.com, Baicheng Travel.com, On the Road, Kufei Online, Wanzi Earth, etc. Most of them are deeply involved in the overseas travel market.

Compared with Ali's intensive cultivation in the past ten years, Tencent entered the market later, but WeChat joined forces with eLong and Zhuzhe to jointly launch the "Tencent Eco-Hotel". The competition between Ali and Tencent in the field of hotels and tourist destinations has become increasingly intense.

WeChat, the mobile super traffic portal owned by Tencent, has its own powerful traffic potential.You can see it by opening the third-party service of WeChat Wallet, and you can access it successively through Didi, Tongcheng, eLong, Dianping, Weipiaoer, etc.It can be said that Tencent has basically completed the full category coverage of travel elements booking services such as transportation, scenic spot tickets, hotels, performance and event tickets.

After reading these materials, Li Yang realized that his real competitors in the future are actually these Internet giants. Of course, Li Yang also knows that these people can also become his partners, and it depends on how he will play in business in the future.

Of course, in the next few years, more and more domestic capital will pour into the foreign tourism market.

In the past two years, Huaxia Assets has gradually deepened its ability to control overseas destination resources, and domestic assets have gradually become an upsurge in cross-border acquisitions of overseas hotel assets.Whoever can occupy the hotel industry undoubtedly has an absolute right to speak in the online tourism industry.

In October 2014, Anbang Insurance bought the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, one of the landmarks in New York, for US$10 billion.

In February 2015, HNA Group acquired Aman, a high-end hotel chain, at a price of 2 billion yuan.

On March 2015, 3, Fosun, together with strategic investors such as Zhongxin Tourism, acquired about 20% of the equity of the French resort brand ClubMed.

In July 2015, Ctrip, Veritas Asset Management, and Singapore Fenghe Investment Group established Leading Investment. The expected amount of funds raised is 7 billion yuan, which will be used for hotel mergers and acquisitions in Europe.

Of course, domestic capital frequently enters the foreign hotel industry because of the vigorous development of the outbound travel market...

According to the hotel investment report released by Taiping Davis, China's outbound tourism has grown rapidly in the past decade, with the number of tourists increasing from 2500 million more than ten years ago to more than 2 million now.

Statistics show that China has been the world's largest consumer of outbound tourism for many years in a row, contributing an average of more than 13% to global tourism revenue. In the next five years, China's outbound tourism will reach 5 million.

Chinese tourists are traveling more and more frequently abroad, and the demand for multiple and in-depth tours is increasing. The overseas tourism market has huge potential.

The domestic tourism market is full of competition. Whether or not the resources of tourism destinations can be grasped, and the resources and supply chains have also become the key for start-ups in the industry to ensure first-mover advantages and competitive barriers.

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After making detailed and sufficient preparations, Li Yang conducted a preliminary telephone communication with the Four Seasons Hotel Group, and set a time for the first contact, and the location was chosen in Borabo, which Li Yang wanted to acquire. If the Four Seasons Resort La Island goes well, Li Yang will also visit the headquarters of the Four Seasons Hotel Group in Toronto, Canada.

After setting the meeting time, Li Yang also quickly started to prepare the passport for going abroad and the materials needed for the preliminary negotiation. At this stage, Li Yang was always in a very excited mood, as wonderful as when he first got the system.

Suddenly, I was about to set foot in the field of overseas resorts, and this one came up with the world-famous and most beautiful island in Tahiti, known as the closest to paradise-the Four Seasons Resort on Bora Bora.

As long as the merger is successful, he will own an island resort worth more than one billion yuan. This kind of take-off life is simply not too exciting, even for Li Yang now, it still feels like a dream.

While waiting excitedly, time passed day by day, and the time agreed to meet was approaching. Li Yang and Michel also embarked on a flight to Bora Bora. From China to Tahiti, they needed to meet Sydney transit.

Li Yang bought a first-class ticket, and the flight he took was the same airline that Tong Shuya was worth, but Li Yang knew that Tong Shuya was currently flying back to China from America.

Tong Shuya will report to Li Yang that she is safe when she takes off and lands almost every day, and she will video chat with Li Yang whenever she takes a break. During the period, if conditions permit, they will also meet up in a city that is a compromise between each other, enjoying a short and romantic time together.

In the past month or so, Li Yang and Tong Shuya have met three times. Although it is painful to part each other, Li Yang knows very well that this seems to be the most suitable way of dating for him at present.

After all, if Tong Shuya sticks to her all day long, the existence of Mihir and the existence of the system, many, many secrets will be troublesome.

Moreover, I was in the rising period of my career, so I was busy with work all day and didn't have so much time to accompany her.

So now their way of getting along is just right, and when they miss each other, they choose a place in compromise, get together for a short time together, and enjoy the feeling of being together after a long separation is better than being newly married.

Li Yang, who went abroad for the first time, was excited in his heart. Looking at the sea of ​​clouds outside the window and the sun in the distance, Li Yang's heart had already flown to the beautiful island.

This trip to Bora Bora Island, all the accommodation and meals will be arranged by the Four Seasons Group, which makes Li Yang very satisfied. Of course, the other party's generosity and respect are also due to the rise of China in the past few years. He has been active in foreign markets for several years, so these foreign capitalists are so interested in this negotiation with Li Yang.

Moreover, the other party specially reserved a luxury water villa for Li Yang in the resort, allowing Li Yang to enjoy the ultimate service of the resort.

It is worth mentioning that when he was going abroad this time, Li Yang thought about the issue of Mihir's identity card. After asking, he found out that Mihir has the nationality and passport of multiple countries at the same time, what kind of international cars, trucks, planes, ships, etc. There are all conceivable vehicle driver's licenses, as well as all conceivable vocational skills certificates, which can be said to be a very abnormal existence.

Li Yang had to lament the power of the system again, the existence of Mihir is the physical projection of the system, a super plug-in, in reality.

But this also saved him a lot of troubles. No matter which country he goes to work in in the future, it will be very convenient to have Michel here. This incident also made Li Yang think about some things about the construction company.

In the future, I will definitely enter the overseas resort hotel industry. Although at present, I want to acquire existing resort hotels, but in the future, I will definitely choose a site to build a resort by myself.

Therefore, the qualifications of his own construction company are particularly important. Li Yang also plans to formally implement this matter after returning to China this time!
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After more than ten hours of flying, Li Yang and the others finally arrived at Motu Mot Airport at around [-] o'clock the next morning.

During the landing process of the plane, Li Yang had a glimpse of the beautiful scenery of the South Pacific in advance through the window. The endless sea changed from dark blue to Tiffany blue, and stretched all the way to the beautiful white sandy beach.

The beautiful island style slowly appeared in front of Li Yang's eyes. It was as beautiful as the paradise left by God in the world. It was colorful and free from dust, although Li Yang had already experienced it when he introduced Bora Bora Island systematically. The beauty here, but seeing it with your own eyes and being there is a completely different visual experience.

The heavenly beauty made Li Yang fall in love with this place instantly, and his excitement instantly swept away the exhaustion of the journey.

He finally understood why so many people love the island, and so many rich people come here for vacation, because the beauty here is enough to sublimate the soul and make people experience the feeling of being in paradise.

The moment he stepped off the plane, a heat wave hit Li Yang instantly, making Li Yang feel as if he had returned to midsummer. The hot and humid air was mixed with the smell of sea water. The sky was extremely clean and the sun was very hot. Not that high.

The person sent by the Four Seasons Hotel picked up Li Yang and Mihir smoothly, and then took a boat to Bora Bora together. It only takes 15 minutes from Motumot Airport to the Four Seasons Resort Bora Bora During the boat trip, almost all the way is the Tiffany blue sea water, the sea water is as clean as crystal, so beautiful that people can't take their eyes off it.

But soon, more beautiful scenery appeared in Li Yang's field of vision, water villas were located on the crystal-like sponge.

The white sandy beach is tiled at the end of the blue lagoon of Tiffany, and the lush vegetation covers the entire beautiful island, which is full of vitality. Many exotic buildings and beautiful swimming pools are scattered around the seaside. Among the palm groves.

As the ship approached, the beautiful scenery of the Four Seasons Resort gradually appeared in front of Li Yang. Li Yang couldn't help feeling that this is what a resort should look like!

After entering the hotel, the enthusiastic service staff presented garlands to Li Yang and Mihir. The air in the whole hotel seemed to be filled with the refreshing fragrance of flowers. There were a lot of flowers around, and the strong holiday atmosphere filled Li Yang's entire field of vision, making him in a trance For a while, I almost forgot whether I was here for business or for vacation.

"Hello, Mr. Li, welcome to the Four Seasons Resort Hotel!" Alan Sharp, the manager of the Four Seasons Group in charge of this project, shook hands with Li Yang.

"Hello, Mr. Sharp!" Li Yang simply greeted him.

"Is this Madam?" Alan Sharp looked at Mihir beside Li Yang. The reason why he asked this question was because their staff was communicating with Li Yang to arrange a room for him. At that time, Li Yang asked the other party to prepare a water villa.

Therefore, it is estimated that the staff mistakenly thought that Mihir was Li Yang's wife, and made a note directly, which is why Alan Sharp misunderstood.

"Oh, no, she is my assistant, Michel!" Li Yang said with a smile.

"Oh, I'm sorry, it's nice to meet you, Miss Michel!" Alan said politely.

Mihir also reached out to shake Alan's hand, and exchanged greetings.

Afterwards, the personal butler arranged by the hotel helped Li Yang put his luggage on the electric sightseeing car, and then drove Alan Sharp, Li Yang, and Michel through the wooden boardwalk on the water to the place they reserved for Li Yang. stay in the water villa.

The exterior of the villa does not look magnificent, the wooden structure of the thatched house looks full of natural atmosphere, but when entering the room, the decoration style inside makes Li Yang's eyes shine.

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(End of this chapter)