Chapter 213: It's Not What It Used To Be

The words of Xie Zhaohui, the owner of the decoration company, when he left, Liu Yun just regarded it as a boring joke and did not take it to heart. In the past few days, he has lived a very fulfilling life, half a day at school to prepare for the final exam, and half a day in the company to preside over the overall situation.

At present, judging from Liu Shihua's work report, the browser secretly developed by the technical department of Yoyo Network has been progressing well and is expected to be completed by the end of August, while the online hotel reservation system is also working overtime to develop.

On this day, Liu Shihua and Chen Di, the director of the marketing department, came together and found Liu Yun.

"Mr. Liu, the direction of the browser is very clear, we can rely on the promotion of hao123, and we can even continue to cooperate with Baidu at that time. Presumably, it will be able to occupy a large market share in the near future. Chen Di analyzed his thoughts.

These two people can generally understand Liu Yun's step, and the development of a browser is an enhanced version of the navigation web page, which can also allow Yoyo Network to master a new traffic weapon and obtain a lot of advertising revenue in return. Just developing an online hotel reservation system, but there are too many unknowns.

Liu Shihua thought for a while and gave his worries, and said: "In the hotel reservation system, I think the ideas and creativity are good, but unfortunately we don't have an online capital trading platform. This is a difficult point. ”

Liu Yun immediately understood Liu Shihua's worries, it is not difficult for users to use the reservation system, the difficulty lies in how to trade the cost of this reservation.

In this era, there is no Alipay, and there is no WeChat, and it is very troublesome to use online banking to transact. More importantly, how do you convince those hotels to agree to let us manage the money for their reservations?

Chen Di hesitated for a moment and said, "Mr. Liu, my personal suggestion is that this reservation system can obtain the remaining number of rooms and room numbers from major hotels, and then provide customers with choices. We do not involve capital transactions, and we will go to major hotels to settle at the beginning of next month. ”

Liu Yun squinted his eyes slightly, thinking about the memories of his past life. More than ten years later, all kinds of large and small travel websites have emerged in an endless stream, because the cake of the tourism industry market is too huge, it has become a battlefield for major giant companies to fight, and it is tragic and abnormal.

Ctrip is a well-deserved giant company, not only occupying the largest market share in the industry, but also the largest shareholder of the other two giant travel websites, eLong and Qunar.com, and the largest shareholder of Ctrip is Baidu.

However, the tourism industry in later generations is too hot, not to mention holidays, even on ordinary weekdays, many tourist attractions are overcrowded. Whether it is domestic travel or overseas travel, tourists are in an endless stream.

Therefore, this cake is so big that even Ctrip, which occupies a monopoly position, cannot swallow it alone, and still leaves a lot of room for latecomers to survive, so there are Tuniu, Mafengwo, and same-city tourism.

Another giant company, Alibaba, also aimed at this huge market, and in 2016 created Fliggy Travel, although it entered the industry late, but it still has a share of this market by relying on the strong foundation of the Alibaba empire.

In his previous life, Liu Yun only used Ctrip and eLong to book hotels when he traveled abroad, and their transaction models included prepayment and cash on delivery.

However, during the holidays, because the number of tourists has skyrocketed, there will rarely be a pay-to-collect model, and customers need to pay a deposit or credit card guarantee first. These online travel sites change depending on the day.

For all rooms booked through Ctrip or eLong, the hotel will return them about 15%-20% of the room rate as a commission. There are tens of thousands of hotels in the country, which is quite a considerable amount of income.

Liu Yun felt that such an operation method was not feasible in this era, and now that online payment is not developed, it is too difficult to implement.

"You guys make the online reservation system first, and then I'll figure out how to deal with the problem of capital transactions. Liu Yun thought for a while and gave his opinion. At the beginning of each month, one by one went to settle the bill, and he had to look at the faces of those hotels, and he didn't want to do this in his heart.

At this moment, he suddenly thought of Alipay, a payment system that had a profound impact on future generations, which was officially launched in October 2003.

Today, even its founder, Mr. Ma Yun, probably did not expect that this thing would have such a profound impact on future generations.

Liu Yun didn't say these words, but they flashed in his heart.

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At Hangcheng Normal University, the door of a classroom was suddenly opened, and Liu Siyue slowly walked out of it, and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

The graduation thesis defense just now went well, and she answered several questions from the teachers, and she answered them fluently, and there was no problem with graduating from the school.

The dissertation was done by others, but Liu Yueru has been outstanding in the three years she has been in school, and she has been preparing various difficulties and doubts in the paper for the past two months.

This time, she returned to her alma mater for the first time in half a year, but she felt like a world away.

More than half a year ago, she was still a young female college student who had just come out of the ivory tower, and she submitted her resume everywhere in order to find a satisfactory internship job, but she did not follow up for a long time.

The wonder of life is that you never know what's going to happen next. Half a year later, she returned to her alma mater. But her identity has long since changed, and now she is at the helm of an Internet company worth tens of millions of dollars.

Such a change will happen even in the most beautiful dreams in the past.

After she returned to school, the eyes of many classmates changed, with envy, with jealousy, those fiery eyes contain all kinds of complex meanings, the girl who used to be poor, could only work hard for living expenses, and studied hard to earn scholarships has now become a proud white swan.

Liu Yueru saw all this.

A boy in the next class that she had silently liked before, after seeing Liu Yueru return to school, she stepped forward to talk very attentively, if it was in the past, she would definitely be happy. But now, people's horizons have changed, their minds have become more mature, and they just smile indifferently at all this.

Liu Yueru knows better than anyone why the boy she once liked has such a huge contrast between before and after.

She even found that when she was defending her thesis, those teachers seemed to be more interested in her, and the young CEO had a wealth that they envied.

For those questions, these teachers were more like a routine, and they quickly ended the defense.

"Liu Siyue, you are now a big celebrity in our school, just like that senior Ma Yun. ”

The two of them are also different, Ma Yun became a nationally renowned celebrity more than ten years after graduating from school, but today's Liu Siyue is still a student.