Kirk Kerkorian.

There is not much information about this person in the media, and there is almost no information on the Internet, and it is also, like a tycoon of this level, basically the media will take the initiative to bypass them when they release news. It's not that I'm afraid, but there's no need to offend the other party, especially in a society like Mi, consortium politics, rich politics, and money politics, as long as it's linked to capital, it's basically at the level of an uncle. With Kirk's identity, of course, it was not enough to make those media groups retreat, but it was still the same sentence...... There's no need!

There are countless news stories that attract people every day in the world, so why bother reporting on these capital tycoons? If you make people unhappy, you will be in trouble when the time comes.

So there is not much information about Kirk from the outside world, but Zhou Fangyuan knows some news about Kirk, such as this person has been married three times and divorced three times, just like he sold MGM three times and then bought MGM three times, and for example, this person has no children and no daughters, and I don't know if there is a health problem or what. In short, this person is very rich, and his worth of tens of billions of dollars is not a joke, but compared to the distant group, to be honest, Kirk is still a little inadequate. If nothing else, let's just say that the wealth myth of the Internet itself is not comparable to the traditional industry of the hotel industry.

Of course, when it comes to stability, the Internet is certainly not as good as the hotel industry, but in terms of the speed at which the rich are made, the hotel industry can't catch up with the Internet.

Zhou Fangyuan is an emerging rich man rising under the Internet industry, his assets have now become a topic of conversation among countless people, I don't know how many people want to know his total assets, but unfortunately, Jin Xiao's industry is almost not listed, even if he starts to accept financing, whether to go public in the end is two words, if he is not listed, the relevant property does not need to be publicized, the Yuanfang Group covers so wide, I don't know how many unknown things there are in private, I want to fully calculate how much Zhou Fangyuan's property is...... That's not an easy thing to do.

But even a rough estimate of Zhou Fangyuan's worth of tens of billions of dollars can't be stopped.

Far from it, let's just say that the shares of Twitter and Facebook, although a large number of shares have been sold, some of which have been diluted by financing, some have been sold directly, and some have been transferred, even so, the remaining shares in Zhou Fangyuan's hands are worth more than a billion dollars. Yes, this is not an exaggeration, the Internet bubble in 2000, after a short period of silence, the Internet, a product of the new era, continued to explode a violent momentum, and more violently than before the bubble, countless hot money poured into the industry, constantly pushing the valuations of major companies to the peak.

At this time, Zhou Fangyuan is in his hands, just talking about Twitter, the remaining shares are less than 10%, to be honest, among all shareholders, he can only be regarded as a younger brother, but even so, as far as the shares in his hand, the valuation at this time is more than one billion dollars, this is still Twitter is not listed, and now some of the company's big investors are planning to list Twitter, once listed, the valuation can not be stopped by several times. No matter how long it takes, it will not increase dozens of times. At that time, this little share will be worth billions easily.

That's what a Twitter does, what about a Facebook? There are billions of them.

The shares of the two companies add up to three billion. Coupled with Disney, Marvel, Blizzard, and the upcoming MGM, as well as marginal industries such as Pixar Animation, Zhou Fangyuan's industry in the United States alone is worth 151 yuan, and 20 billion is available. If you count his distant group in Huaxia, his net worth of tens of billions of dollars is proper. Therefore, Zhou Fangyuan and Kirk stand together, but in fact, Kirk really has a gap with him.

Kirk is a middle-aged man, not too young, who looks like a vulture, especially with a beak, which looks about the same as a bird's beak, giving people a very sinister feeling.

And it depends on this person's involvement in the gambling industry, and repeatedly sold MGM and then bought it, using MGM to make money for him, and he doesn't care about MGM's life or death at all...... Zhou Fangyuan's senses for this person are very bad.

However, it's not good to return, it's not good to meet, and we still have to meet when we should meet. It's not just about MGM's acquisition, after all, Kirk is now the owner of MGM, and he almost controls all of MGM's shares, and it's hard for outsiders to imagine that a large company like MGM can only be said to be a shareholder. But this is the case, when MGM is not as good as a year, other shareholders have already figured out how to go, withdraw what should be withdrawn, and the shares in their hands have also been transferred. From the time Kirk first bought MGM, he took almost all of MGM's shares.

So it's not unusual, it's a matter of people, if anyone can really come up with a trillion dollars, it's not impossible for the circle to buy Apple, but the problem is that you have to be able to get it.

When the two meet, there is nothing to say, just get to know each other, in fact, Kirk now wants to get rid of MGM, otherwise he will not agree to the acquisition of Sony and other companies. In fact, as long as the money is in place, it doesn't matter who buys the company for someone like Kirk. Zhou Fangyuan is rich, and Zhou Fangyuan has another purpose for meeting Kirk this time, that is, in terms of high-end hotel management, can the two sides establish some cooperative relations?

As the layout of the distant commercial buildings in China has begun to accelerate, many large cities have begun to apply for that place, and bank loans have also been issued, and the distant commercial buildings will soon complete the layout of major cities in China. In Zhou Fangyuan's vision, Yuanfang Commercial Building is to be the same as Wanda, with a nationwide layout. But unlike Wanda, which does not do hotels, Zhou Fangyuan hopes that his distant commercial building can be involved in part of the hotel business. The hotel industry is a very important industry, of course, it is not so important to the layout of Yuanfang Group. Whether there is anything or not, it will not affect the subsequent development of the group.

But why did Zhou Fangyuan want to get involved in this industry? There are some reasons for this.

One of them, high-end hotels, is a good channel for networking.

Especially for successful people, it is normal to fly all over the world often, but it is rare for people to buy a house in one place, so everyone still has to live in a hotel after all. Even aside, various groups organize events, and celebrities stay in the ...... Hotels, especially the high-end hotel industry, are well managed, and it is very necessary to expand their contacts. Especially with the rise of China's middle class, people's tourism consumption is getting higher and higher, and consumption upgrading has led to an increase in demand.

Too top hotel, Zhou Fangyuan will definitely not do, the financial pressure is too great, the return speed is too slow, although there are many benefits, but the difficulty of operation is also very high, and if you want to operate that kind of top hotel, the right time and place are indispensable. Besides, Zhou Fangyuan's eyes are still more focused on the Internet and the physical production industry, such as the hotel service industry, to be honest, he wants to do it, but he is not ready to fully devote himself to it. And he didn't have any experience before, but now the qualifications of Yuanfang Real Estate are sufficient, and the scale is getting bigger and bigger, which can be further utilized. Cooperate with distant commercial buildings, and spread out the hotel to form a nationwide network...... That's what he's for.

Kirk runs the hotel, and he is doing a good job, so he came to Kirk this time because he wanted to learn from him, and it was best to have a cooperative relationship.

Although it is a sudden idea to be a hotel, if you think about it, this business is really good.

In particular, in the next few years, China's development rate will be the best, leading the rapid development of the tourism and hotel industry in Asia, and the growth momentum of business and leisure revenue is strong.

Compared with the first-tier cities, the price of hotel rooms in the second- and third-tier cities in China has increased significantly. The steady growth of hotel room rates in the country will be further boosted by the opening of new hotels in second- and third-tier cities and the government's investment in new transportation facilities. Chinese and foreign hotel brands continue to expand their business territory, and the balance between supply and demand of hotels will be a topic of great concern in the future. The proportion of various types of hotel chains in the world is: luxury 5%, high-end 30%, mid-range 37%, economy 20%, and applicable 8%. However, only 28% of the hotels are budget and applicable, and there is great potential for development.

As of 2012, there were nearly 3.3 million accommodation and catering enterprises in China, with an annual operating income of more than 2 trillion yuan, accounting for about 5% of GDP that year. In 2011, the national catering revenue was 2,054.3 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 16.9%, and more than 22 million people were employed. In the accommodation industry, there are more than 280,000 accommodation enterprises in the country, of which 16,000 are above designated size in the accommodation industry, a year-on-year increase of 8.4%; operating income was 218.4 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 23.3%; The operating profit was 160.3 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 22%.

According to the National Bureau of Statistics, by the end of 2007, there were 14,326 local star-rated hotels in China, including 4 platinum five-star hotels, 361 five-star hotels, 1,631 four-star hotels, 5,534 three-star hotels and 6,158 two-star hotels. Star-rated hotels directly employ more than 1.6 million people. There are more than 300,000 hotels and tourist accommodation units in the country, employing more than 5 million people.

At the end of 2007, the number of star-rated hotels in the country was 100 times that of the total number of hotels in the country in 1978; in 2006, the national star-rated hotels achieved a profit of 3.3 billion yuan, an increase of more than two times over the previous year; the country already has more than 2,000 green tourist hotels; 41 international hotel management groups and 67 hotel brands have entered the Chinese market, and 516 hotels have been managed, and the world's top 10 international hotel management groups have entered the Chinese market.

The 2007 holiday adjustment policy has strained every sensitive nerve in the hotel industry. The introduction of paid leave has activated the tourism and hotel sector. The introduction of paid leave is undoubtedly a huge cake for the hotel and tourism industry. This has allowed the hotel and tourism industry to enter a golden investment period of "both price and volume". At the same time, the upgrading of domestic consumption promotes the simultaneous growth of domestic tourists and per capita spending, and the faster and more comfortable transportation services provided by modern means of transportation make the bottleneck constraint effect of traffic on tourism smaller and smaller, which enables sightseeing to continue to develop, and leisure and vacation travel will gradually rise.

The tourism market has launched related products in response to this, and many resort hotels have seen business opportunities and made relevant adjustments to the changes in this market. Due to the cancellation of the "May Day" Golden Week, the business hotel has been exempted from the embarrassment of "vacancy" or even "price reduction" caused by the holiday for many years, and the normal work of "May Day" has allowed the business hotel to have a normal "business" value.

Of course, there are not no problems, you can't just watch thieves eat meat, don't watch thieves being beaten, this industry seems to be glamorous, but in fact, there are still many problems.

Especially for the domestic - Zhou Fangyuan has not yet made the business the idea of going abroad.

First of all, a large number of three-star and below-star hotels are still in the red for a long time despite the good external environment. Secondly, a small number of three-star and below three-star hotels are selling well and the occupancy rate is very high, but the hotel seems to have developed to a hurdle, and the enthusiasm of employees, sales performance, and service quality cannot be improved to a higher level. In addition, most of the four-five-star hotels in the industry longitudinal comparison, is slightly higher, but in the international horizontal comparison, domestic high-end hotels in the strategic situation, management precision, service deepening and global operation of the same level of international hotels are not the same, most of the domestic four-star and five-star hotel soft environment is only equivalent to foreign three-star or even lower grade hotels.

The efficiency of China's hotel industry is also somewhat low, the operation and form are the same, and the trajectory of differentiation and diversity cannot be found, and the added value in international competition is extremely meager. Finally, there is a large gap between China's local hotel talents and international hotel talents in terms of quality and training mode, and an unavoidable reality is that 70% of China's existing senior hotel management talents come from abroad, or have foreign hotel training experience. Huaxia still does not have a professional hotel management college in the true sense, nor does it have a standardized and complete hotel human resources market.

However, these problems are not unsolvable, and Zhou Fangyuan did not think about changing the industry by himself, it was a matter of the country. All he can do is do what he wants to do. For example, if you want to do a hotel, from management to service, you need to hire special personnel or train special personnel, as well as the management, concept, and design of mid-to-high-end hotels...... These are things that need to be taken very seriously, and they can be tricky to anticipate.

So at this time, the benefits of Kirk are manifested. Because of the relationship between MGM and MGM, the two sides have a basis for dialogue. Kirk is a very ambitious person and greedy for money, so Zhou Fangyuan invited him to enter the Huaxia market, and he must be willing. With Zhou Fangyuan, the head snake, he can also save a lot of trouble. What Zhou Fangyuan needs is Kirk's management experience, and after the cooperation between the two sides, it can facilitate training and communication between personnel.

Therefore, although I don't like Kirk very much, considering my future plans and intentions, it is still necessary to befriend Kirk.