In 1978, the number of inbound tourists in our country reached more than 1.8 million.

This is more than the total number of foreign tourists received by our country in the previous two decades.

In 1979, the number of foreign guests swelled to more than 4.2 million.

This year, there were only seven foreign-related hotels in Beijing, and only 1,000 beds met the reception standard.

It is precisely for this reason that the state's top level will quickly introduce three pilot projects of foreign investment in 1979 to rescue the emergency.

No. 001 is Air China Food.

Nos. 002 and 003 are the Jianguo Hotel and the Great Wall Hotel.

Of course, in the era of political leadership, the high growth of mainland tourists brought about by various political needs and institutional changes obviously appeared earlier and the growth rate was more rapid.

In particular, as the political and cultural center of our country, the number of tourists to be received by Beijing will definitely rank first in the country.

Therefore, since the 70s, it has been much earlier than the national leadership realized the need to build luxury hotels that meet international standards.

Guarding the Beijing Railway Station and occupying the convenient Chongwen District, it began to vigorously promote the development of the hotel industry in the district to meet the needs of tourists in Beijing.

Chongwenmen Hotel is a hotel project funded by the district government to provide high-standard reception conditions for domestic guests.

It should be said that this hostel was quite successful.

Since the opening of the business, the occupancy rate has been maintained at more than 80%.

It's a pity that there was too little understanding of the outside world at that time.

Almost no one knows what a really high standard should look like.

In this way, it is difficult for the leaders to break the inherent thinking mode at that time, and only pay attention to the hardware facilities.

Therefore, although the Chongwenmen Hotel has sofas, soft beds, fans, TVs, and elevators, it has reached the "modern" standard agreed upon by people of this era.

However, in the eyes of Ning Weimin, it is still difficult to hide the common problem that his business strategy is backward and he has no management experience at all.

At best, it's a big guest house.

It didn't give him a sense of looking up at all.

To put it bluntly, the current boom in the business of Chongwenmen Hotel is only due to its geographical location and the first-mover advantage of foresight.

Once wait until the time of the big construction comes.

Or the surrounding Qianmen Hotel, Dongfang Hotel, and National Hotel, the internal facilities have been upgraded.

Its attractiveness to mainland tourists is bound to plummet.

And the most interesting point is that at this time, the foreign affairs hotel in Beijing is training its staff, focusing on teaching foreign customs, life characteristics and taboos.

What British and Indian foreign guests like to drink quilt tea.

What Indian and Indonesian foreign guests wash with their left hand after using the toilet, and do not use their left hand to take food for them.

What *** teaches foreign guests not to eat pork.

Foreign guests who believe in Buddhism do not shake hands with them, and must put their palms together.

There is also a taboo "thirteen" for Christian foreign guests.

The Albanian foreign guests nodded in the negative, shook their heads in affirmation, and so on......

All of these are surprising to young people who have been isolated from the outside world for a long time and lack of knowledge.

Compared with it, Ning Weimin's personal feelings are similar.

Because he was a newcomer, if he didn't experience it firsthand, even he wouldn't have believed it.

The innumerable characteristics of state-run hotels in this era are incredible.

For example, each floor of the Chongmonmon Inn.

Except for the room number, there is no obvious distinguishing marker at all.

Each corridor is evenly lined with countless rooms, like a secondary school building or an orderly barracks.

As long as the customer forgets or remembers the wrong room number, it will be an "accident".

Although it is not as exaggerated as the bridge in the movie "Escape from the Tiger's Mouth".

It will inevitably lead to the panic of squeaking and the embarrassment of apologetics.

But no one wants to pay attention to or change such a problem, and no one has even mentioned it.

Not only is it allowed to exist for a long time, but it is willing to be used as a joke and gossip.

For another example, Chongwenmen Hotel will also enforce the daily life of all guests based on the sleeping habits of most Chinese people.

As soon as it is 9 p.m., it is bedtime by default.

The restaurant was closed, and the boiler room stopped supplying hot water to the kettle.

Employees will also turn off unnecessary lights one by one.

The corridors on each floor were darkened, desolate and deserted.

Even the hardware boasted here is problematic in design.

It is said to be a fully furnished single room, but there is no separate toilet planned at all.

The public toilet is designed at the end of the staircase, and the shower is at the other end.

The room, bathroom and bathroom are completely separated, and it is extremely inconvenient to live.

As for the service attitude, it is even more about saying one thing and doing another.

Although the employees of various departments often have to spend time participating in various conferences, small meetings, organizing learning, and listening to the speeches of leaders.

But in fact, the slogan of "quality service" has never been implemented, and it has stayed in words.

Take the reception work at the front desk, for example.

Mi Xiaoran took Ning Weimin to check in for customers.

There is no need to be courteous at all, and there is no need to serve with a smile.

Just keep your head down and give the guest a ticket to collect money.

It fully shows that they are a strong, proud, and owner-like generation.

In addition, before checking out, the hotel will also make a round before releasing the room.

When it comes to how the waiter on the ward rounds treats the guests, it is even worse, just like the police treat criminal suspects.

If you are in a hurry to catch the train, or if you have something important to do, you have to wait honestly.

The waiter had to light all the utensils, even the TV and the lights had to be turned on to see before the guests were allowed to leave.

The guests must not urge, and when you urge, it will seem that you have a ghost in your heart.

The waiter has to procrastinate and spend ten minutes to finish.

What's more, many employees are even unscrupulous in quarrels, and they don't care about affecting the rest of the guests.

As a result, it frequently happens that the guests are woken up by the waiters in their sleep, and when they open the door, they have to persuade the two waiters to get along.

Of course, having said that, this is nothing else, it is all determined by the limited travel conditions of the year.

The key is that in this era, it is too difficult for people to go out.

Not only are train tickets difficult to buy, but trains are seriously overcrowded.

Often because of the unfamiliar place, it is difficult for travelers to find suitable hotels when they arrive at their destination.

Sometimes it's too busy to catch up with the "Out-of-town Tourist Reception" and can't introduce the hotel in time.

No matter what your status, I'm afraid I have to arrange for you to sleep in a day of Chase shop first.

So for most travelers who travel all the way to pommel horse.

If you can find such a comfortable place to rest without delaying your work and not taking the wrong road, you will already be overjoyed and thank God.

If so, who would dare to find fault?

That's too discontenting.