Chapter 294: Mountain Rain is Coming
On the same day, when I was waiting for the route, I held my stomach and made a secret visit, but I saw the prosperity of Lanfang, which made Iprahim more and more angry the more he thought about it, and he didn't even fall asleep on the plane back to Diba.
In the end, he was angry with the female secretaries and assistants around him one by one, and he didn't treat people as people, which could be regarded as dispeling negative emotions.
In the course of just a few hours, he saw the world's first direct flight between Feilanfang and Paris, and also saw the world's first direct flight from Milan Feilanfang.
Among the European countries, the French and Italy already have direct routes with the Lantian side.
The Germans don't have it yet, but it is said that Gu Kun is also doing Lufthansa work and exaggerating his future, and at the latest at the end of August and early September, there will be a Frankfurt to the Lanfang route - Berliners are relatively poor, and the economic center of Germany is not in Berlin, but in the northwest, so it is enough to make money from German tyrants and fly to Hamburg, Berlin has no future.
All of this is a package that suddenly sprung up within a week after the opening of the Burj Al Arab Hotel, and the rapid growth rate is staggering to the peers.
Of course, Dibba also has flights to France or Italy, and even "friends" such as Brittany and Spain, but after all, Diba's population and scale are many times larger than that of Lanzhou, and now there are more than 1 million permanent residents, while Lanfang only has 70,000 nationalities and 200,000 permanent residents.
Moreover, Dibba is nearly half the distance from Western Europe than the Lantian side, so the Lantian people in the aviation industry's reach to the European market, even if it is only the same as Diba, it also means a major failure for Diba.
In fact, Gu Kun obviously did better. While quickly catching up with the reach rate of European commercial routes, Lanfang also opened a Los Angeles route with two round-trip flights a week on August 15 to pick up and drop off Hollywood tycoons. The two Boeing 747 transoceanic routes are almost full every week, and that is five or six hundred Hollywood people visiting Lanzhou.
If this item is maintained, it is not equivalent to at least 30,000 ocean tourists per year.
In 2001, even Dibba did not have a direct route to Los Angeles, and Dibba had the only direct route to Oceania, which was still to New York.
The sense of urgency has never been more real.
As a tropical coral island country located in Southeast Asia, Lanfang can attract 30,000 ocean tourists every year, and the gold content is definitely higher than the latest expected "2 million Chinese tourists per year" - of course, don't get me wrong here, I think that the Oceanic people are superior, purely because of the choice preference caused by the distance, which makes the Oceanic people seem more scarce and more benchmarking in the Southeast Asian market.
Because any tropical coral island seaside vacation project is actually not much different from the world. It is a reason that Chinese people naturally tend to go to Phuket Bali Lanfang, and Oceanic people naturally tend to go to Grenada.
The Chinese go to Hailan Island in China, which is almost the same as the Oceania country goes to Puerto Rico, the "fifty-first state".
If one day the Chinese have to toss to go to Grenada, and the Oceanic people have to toss to come to Lanfang, it means that this person must be a local tyrant who is not bad for money.
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After returning to Diba, because of vigilance, Ipraxin continued to pay attention to the development of Lanfang's side for a long time, always thinking of grasping a little bit of Gu Kun's performance fraud, and then looking for an opportunity to take eye medicine in front of investor Mahathir.
Itrashine is not entirely because he is "afraid that Mahathir will put his eggs in several baskets and try to invest in two tyrant cities at the same time". He actually knew in his heart that this possibility was still very low.
But even if Mahathir doesn't invest in Gu Kun, it is good to splash dirty water eye medicine, because it can lower investors' expectations.
Entrepreneurs are like students, and investors are like parents.
And Ibrasin, an entrepreneur who is on the edge of reliable and unreliable, is like a quasi-student scumbag between a scholar and a real scumbag.
For any quasi-scumbag in this world, the existence of "other people's children" that can be used by parents as comparison materials and reference objects is deeply hated.
If there is no peer Gu Kun, then the efficiency of ipracin when burning money does not have so many reference systems to compare. Therefore, Gu Kun's disgusting frame of reference simply made Ibrasin uncomfortable.
The scumbag seized every opportunity to hack "other people's children", not necessarily because he was afraid that his own father would really recognize other people's children as sons.
It's a pity that even when Iprahim paid close attention to the black material of the Burj Al Arab project, what he collected was still good material.
Throughout mid and late August, the Burj Al Arab business data has repeatedly hit new highs, and the business data of Air France, Lufthansa, and United Airlines can also provide circumstantial evidence for the achievements of the Lan Fang people, proving that these days are indeed upper-class European and American white rich people really get together to experience.
At the beginning of September, the Burj Al Arab Hotel announced the results of the 20 days since its official opening in August.
Even during the same period, Diba's share of high-end luxury tourism has declined significantly - after all, the world's tourist city-states that follow Diba's model are Monaco, Dibba and Lanfang, so the direct competition between the three is obvious.
Lan Fang attracted 2,000 celebrity tyrants from all walks of life in Oceania (whether entertainment stars or sports stars) and 3,000 German, French and Italian tyrants in one month.
At least, 2,000 customers will be cut off from the Diba people, and a small half of the people who go to the Lanfang are squeezed out of Diba's market share.
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In a state of sleepless nights, the wheel of history finally turned to mid-September 2001.
Not surprisingly, history has a lot of inertia in some non-economic areas.
Especially because in addition to the economy, sports, and fashion, it is difficult for other aspects of this world to be affected by the butterfly effect of Gu Kun, a reborn person. Therefore, natural events in the field of international relations, even if Gu Kun has been reborn for more than seven years, should still happen.
Gu Kun didn't care at all, and he didn't intervene.
Moreover, unlike the brain supplement of later generations, many people who experienced 2001 know that after the emergency events in Oceania in September, the outside world did not have much association in the first few days, and at first thought it was an accident, which was the mentality of watching a play.
Even if there is an organization to claim it, the foreign media did not believe it at first, and many people felt that it might be a bitter ploy planted by the Oceanic people. Basically, it took a week or two for most of the media around the world to report on important international news to basically unify their understanding.
Therefore, the impact on the tightening of the global aviation industry and the tourism industry will basically not be felt until October. The war in Afghanistan did not start again until October 7 without any change.
In the 20 days in mid-to-late September, global airlines only successively upgraded the level of security measures and extended the process of flights, and the Oceanians responded the fastest, while the Europeans basically delayed until the end of the month. Since then, the time spent by passengers around the world on a series of processes such as early entry and security check has also been permanently extended, which can be regarded as a kind of sadness and inconvenience that has to be faced.
Of course, Gu Kun's tourism in Lanfang has basically not been affected, after all, 90% of Lanfang's tourists are from East Asia and Southeast Asia, Chinese people account for 60% of the total number of tourists, and Japan, South Korea and Singapore, Malaysia and Taifei all add up to 30%. The market doesn't care what is happening across the ocean.
What's more, Gu Kun's Burj Al Arab was not affected at all, because all the rooms here were booked out in August and were scheduled until the eve of the Christmas season, which means that from mid-August to mid-December, the royal suites were fully booked for four months.
The Presidential Suite also ensured that six or seven percent of the rooms were booked out a few months in advance, and only three percent needed to count on temporary guests, and in the worst case, nothing more than none of the three percent of the guests came, which was enough for the Burj Al Arab to make a small profit - as mentioned earlier, the average occupancy rate of this hotel can ensure that the upfront investment is recouped in six years, and as long as the occupancy rate is 40%, depreciation and operating costs can be amortized to ensure capital preservation.
In contrast, Iprasin's business has suffered a heavy setback.
He also built a Burj Al Arab, which was originally scheduled to open this Christmas season until early next year, and is still in the renovation sprint.
It's just that Diba's sailboat looks different from Gu Kun's, as we all know, the Burj Al Arab Hotel of the Diba tribe in later generations is two or three hundred meters high, 100 meters higher than the Lan side, but there is only one main sail building, and Gu Kun is a "three-masted sailboat" shape similar to the Sydney Shell Opera House, as well as the volley tail sail building with hollow steel columns, the shape design is definitely not worse than Diba's goods, and no one in the world will say that these two hotels will have design references.
And now the black swan event that led to an unexpected slump in the tourism industry has arrived, and Diba's customers are mainly Europeans and Americans and other Middle Eastern neighbors. After the black swan event, because of the strong condemnation of Afghanistan by the Oceanic countries, even the distrust of the entire Middle East countries among the citizens of the Oceanic countries, who do not know much about the outside world, has exploded, and it has also affected the choice of outbound travel to these countries.
Don't think about how rare the idea of "treating all countries in the Middle East as a class of countries" is rare in the eyes of the people of Oceania.
Oceanians are notoriously arrogant and unworldly, and most Oceanians are typical of "only knowing that there are two countries in the world, Oceania and other countries". There are even funny people who want to elect a president who speak of Africa as a country in a televised debate.
So it's only natural that the Afghans offend people and cause everyone in the North American market to implicate the entire Middle East world and increase their sense of resistance.
Although the Burj Al Arab in Ipraxia is still more than three months away, he originally wanted to learn from Gu Kun's "advance booking", but now it seems that he is going to smash it all.
And many of the tourism projects that Dibba had built before began to decline sharply at a rate visible to the naked eye. Some of these projects have also taken a lot of investment from Mahathir, so the pressure on entrepreneurs has also increased sharply.
One day at the end of September, Iprahimine, who was in a hurry, received an invitation from Mahathir Mohamad to a banquet.
When Ibrasin's female secretary passed the news, she didn't dare to come out, lest the boss spill her anger:
"Boss, Mr. Mahathir Mohamad from the Abu Dhabi Consortium will be here tomorrow, please go and get together, probably for the audit of business performance and follow-up project reductions. ”
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