Chapter 226: This is what a resort should be

After listening to the introduction of the system, Li Yang's heart calmed down for a long time and began to think rationally about this task......

"Completing the merger and acquisition in three months, the time is a bit tight!" Li Yang sneered, although the system will provide him with enough funds, but after all, it is not as simple as going to the supermarket to buy mineral water.

Coupled with cross-border mergers and acquisitions, there must be many unpredictable difficulties, although Li Yang is different from mergers and acquisitions, but it is not an easy thing to think about.

"You have to hurry!" Li Yang immediately called Mihir and told her 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, the ownership transfer of each asset, the process is very complicated, it takes a long time, but the risk is relatively low!" Mihir explained.

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

Mihir quickly began to prepare the M&A planning plan, and Li Yang began to inquire about M&A-related knowledge, after all, although Mihir was there, Li Yang also knew that if he didn't learn and make progress, he would never be the real owner of the resort.

In the next few days, Li Yang was making up for the relevant knowledge of overseas mergers and acquisitions, as well as the relevant information about the Four Seasons Hotel, of course, a lot of information was collected and sorted out with the help of Michel, after all, mergers and acquisitions are also a commercial game and competition, and only by knowing oneself and knowing the other can one not be defeated.

Founded in 1961, Four Seasons is an international luxury hotel management group with more than 90 hotels and resorts in nearly 40 countries, making it one of the world's best hotel groups.

The resort hotel they want to acquire this time has been rated as the world's best luxury resort for many times, and it is also the "most beautiful Four Seasons Hotel in the Pacific", with a market valuation of about 1.2 billion yuan.

At present, Li Yang is not the only one who is interested in acquiring this resort hotel, and there is a lot of capital that has been in contact with Four Seasons Hotel Group in the past two years.

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

One is Ali and the other is Tencent, these two Li Yang are not too familiar, they are almost the 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, is it true that rich people are so willful, spending more than a billion just to buy a resort for themselves?

The answer is naturally no, Li Yang read the relevant information, and found that his pattern and cognition have not reached the level after all, the level given by the system to himself is that the industry is already overestimating himself, his vision and pattern still have a lot of room for improvement, and he wants to become a character like two old horses, and there is still a long way to go.

But people are self-aware and know their own shortcomings in order to grow faster.

According to the data, Alibaba'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 a strong platform architecture and guarantee at the technology, payment, credit, and financial levels, the growth prospects of Alibaba Fliggy cannot be underestimated.

Ali has also escorted Fliggy's focus on the overseas travel market, and its members of the tourism industry investment layout include: AutoNavi Map, Qyer.com, Baicheng Travel Network, On the Road, Kufei Online, Maruko Earth, etc., most of which are deeply involved in the overseas travel market.

Compared with Alibaba's intensive cultivation in the past ten years, Tencent entered the game relatively late, but WeChat joined hands with eLong and Zhuzhe to jointly launch the "Tencent Eco Hotel", and Ali and Tencent are increasingly competing in the field of hotels and tourist destinations.

WeChat, a mobile super traffic portal owned by Tencent, has its own strong traffic potential. Open the third-party service of WeChat wallet, you can see that it has been accessed through Didi, Tongcheng, eLong, Dianping, Weipiao, etc. It can be said that Tencent has basically completed the full coverage of tourism element booking services such as transportation, scenic spot tickets, hotels, and tickets for performances and events.

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, it depends on how to play in business in the future.

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

In the past two years, Huaxia Asset Management's ability to control overseas destination resources has gradually deepened, and domestic assets have become increasingly popular for cross-border acquisition of overseas hotel assets. Whoever can occupy the hotel industry will undoubtedly have an absolute say in the online travel industry.

In October 2014, Anbang Insurance bought the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, one of New York's landmarks, for $1.95 billion.

In February 2015, HNA Group acquired Aman, a high-end hotel chain, for 2.82 billion yuan.

On March 20, 2015, Fosun, together with strategic investors such as Utrust Tourism, acquired approximately 98% of the shares of ClubMed, a French resort brand.

In July 2015, Ctrip, Huiyu Asset Management and Singapore's Venture Capital Group formed Leadlead Investment, which is expected to raise RMB 2.5 billion for hotel mergers and acquisitions in Europe.

Of course, the frequent entry of domestic capital into the foreign hotel industry is also due to the vigorous development of the outbound travel market......

According to the hotel investment report released by Peaceful Davis, the number of overseas travel in China has grown rapidly in the past decade, from 25 million more than a decade ago to more than 200 million today.

According to data, Huaxia has become the world's largest outbound tourism consumer for many years, contributing an average of more than 13% to global tourism revenue, and the number of outbound Chinese tourism will reach 700 million in the next five years.

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

Whether the domestic tourism market competes in the Red Sea, whether it can grasp the resources of tourist destinations, and grasp the resource side and supply chain, has also become the key to ensure the first-mover advantage and competitive barriers for start-ups in the industry.

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After making detailed and sufficient preparations, Li Yang conducted preliminary telephone communication with Four Seasons Hotel Group, and set the time for the first contact, and the location was selected at the Four Seasons Resort Bora Bora that Li Yang wanted to acquire, if it went well, Li Yang will also visit the headquarters of Four Seasons Hotel Group in Toronto, Canada.

The time for the meeting was set, and Li Yang quickly began to prepare the passport for going abroad and the materials required for the preliminary negotiation, etc., at this stage, Li Yang's mood has always been very excited, and the feeling is as wonderful as when he first obtained the system.

Suddenly, I was on my way to the world of overseas resorts, and this was the world-famous Four Seasons Resort in Bora Bora, the most beautiful island in Tahiti, the closest to paradise.

As long as the merger and acquisition is successful, he will have an island resort worth more than one billion, this kind of take-off life is simply not too cool, even if Li Yang is now, it still feels like a dream.

In the excitement of waiting, time passed day by day, and the agreed time to meet was coming, Li Yang and Mihir also embarked on a flight to Bora Bora together, from China to Tahiti, and needed to transfer in Sydney on the way.

Li Yang bought a first-class ticket, and the flight he took was also worthy of Tong Shuya's airline, but Li Yang knew that Tong Shuya was currently on her way back from the Americas.

Tong Shuya will report her safety to Li Yang almost every day when she takes off and land, and as long as she takes a break, she will video chat with Li Yang, during which if conditions permit, they will also meet in the city where they compromise with each other and enjoy a short and romantic time together.

In the past month or so, Li Yang and Tong Shuya have met three times, although each time they are very painful, Li Yang knows very well that this seems to be the most suitable way for him to fall in love at present.

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

And she is on the rise in her career, and she is busy with work all day long and doesn't have so much time to spend with her.

So now they get along in this way, and when they miss it, they choose a place to get together for a short time together, and enjoy the feeling of being married after a long absence.

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, 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, it is precisely because of the rise of Huaxia in recent years, Huaxia Capital has been active in foreign markets in recent years, so these foreign capitalists will be so interested in this negotiation with Li Yang.

Moreover, the other party also reserved a luxury water villa for Li Yang in the resort, so that Li Yang could enjoy the ultimate service of the resort.

It is worth mentioning that when he wanted to go abroad this time, Li Yang thought of the question of Mihir's identity document, and only after asking did he know that Mihir has the nationality and passport of many countries at the same time, and there are all imaginable transportation driver's licenses such as international cars, trucks, planes, ships, etc., as well as all kinds of professional skill certificates that can be imagined, which can be said to be a very perverted existence.

Li Yang had to sigh again at the power of the system, and the existence of Mihir was the physical projection of the super plug-in of the system in reality.

However, this also saved him a lot of troubles, no matter which country he went to in the future, it would be very convenient to have Mihir there, and this incident also reminded Li Yang of 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 my own site to build a resort.

Therefore, the qualification of his own construction company is particularly important, and Li Yang also plans to officially implement this matter after returning to China this time!

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After more than ten hours of flight, at nine o'clock in the morning of the next day, Li Yang and his team finally arrived at Motumut Airport.

During the landing of the plane, Li Yang had a glimpse of the beautiful scenery of the South Pacific Ocean through the light-filled windows, and the endless sea transitioned from deep blue to Tiffany blue, extending to the beautiful white sand beach.

The beautiful island style slowly appeared in front of Li Yang's eyes, the beauty seems to be God's paradise on earth, colorful, not stained with dust, although Li Yang has already appreciated the beauty here when he introduced Bora Bora Island in the system, but what he saw with his own eyes, immersive, is a completely different visual experience.

The beautiful scenery like a paradise made Li Yang fall in love with this place instantly, and his excitement swept away the fatigue of the journey in an instant.

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

The moment he stepped off the plane, the heat wave hit instantly, making Li Yang seem to have returned to midsummer all of a sudden, the hot and humid air was mixed with a little smell of seawater, the sky was extremely clean, and the sun was very spicy, but because of the humid air, the temperature was not so high.

The Four Seasons Hotel sent a pick-up to pick up Li Yang and Mihir, and then took a boat to Bora Bora together, from Motumot Airport to Four Seasons Resort Bora Bora, it only takes 15 minutes by boat, all the way is almost the kind of Tiffany blue 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, and the water villas were located on the crystal clear sponge.

The white sand beach at the end of the blue lagoon of Natifni is covered with lush vegetation and is full of life, with many exotic buildings and beautiful swimming pools scattered among the palm groves by the sea.

As the ship approached, the beautiful scenery of the Four Seasons Resort Hotel slowly appeared in front of Li Yang, and Li Yang couldn't help but sigh, this is what the resort should look like!

After entering the hotel, the enthusiastic service staff presented a wreath to Li Yang and Mihir, and the air of the whole hotel seemed to be filled with the refreshing fragrance of flowers.

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

"Hello, Mr. Sharp!" Li Yang only greeted briefly.

"Is this a lady?" Alan Sharp looked at Mihir beside Li Yang, the reason why he asked this was because the staff on their side at that time, when communicating with Li Yang to arrange a room for him, Li Yang asked the other party to prepare a set of water villas.

Therefore, it is estimated that the staff mistakenly thought that Mihir was Li Yang's wife, and directly remarked it, so Alan Sharp misunderstood.

"Oh, no, she's my assistant, Mihir!" Li Yang said with a smile.

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

Michiel also reached out to shake Alan's hand and exchanged pleasantries.

Subsequently, 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 Mihir through the wooden plank road on the water to the water villa they reserved for Li Yang.

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

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