Rebirth of Hong Kong 1981

   Chapter 861 Visit

  White Swan Hotel is located in White Swan Pond on Shamian Island in Yangcheng. The name of White Swan Hotel comes from White Swan Pond.

   This is the first five-star hotel built by a Sino-foreign joint venture in the inland. The White Swan Hotel in the later generations is a special product of the times and is recognized as a national-level cultural relic building.

The design of   White Swan Hotel adopts the idea of ​​combining Chinese and Western. The exterior is a completely modern building, which looks like a modern hotel of Western standards, but the interior is designed by combining traditional Chinese gardens and traditional gardens in Lingnan.

   Walking into the White Swan Hotel, Huo Daheng personally took Yang Chen, Xue Yufei and several leaders to visit, and while visiting, he personally introduced the White Swan Hotel for Yang Chen.

   "There are a total of 520 guest rooms here, and each guest room is designed according to the standards of foreign five-star hotels. The materials, furniture, and even a piece of wood are imported from the Philippines..."

"Chinese and Western food in the hotel can be served around the clock, mainly Cantonese, French, and island cuisine. The chefs are all invited from various countries, and their cooking skills are all first-class masters. When I invited these people, I also specially consulted. Come on, Mr. Cai."

   "You mean Cai Lan?" Yang Chen asked.

   "That's right, now your Asian TV station, which food show hosted by Mr. Cai is doing well. I heard that the audience responded very well. When will you let him come here and hold a food show in the Mainland.

You know, each of our eight major cuisines has its own characteristics, and it takes three days to explain it by mouth. When that time comes, I will send someone to invite all the famous chefs from the major inland cuisines, so that we can also promote it by the way. our Chinese culture. "

   When the leader heard Huo Daheng's proposal, his eyes lit up, and immediately said, "I support Mr. Huo's idea. Cantonese cuisine is just one of our cuisines. If we can publicize our Chinese culture..."

   Well, the leaders have spoken, Yang Chen has nothing to say.

   "I think there's nothing wrong with this matter. I'll tell him later and let him promote our Chinese culture well."

  After visiting the guest room, Huo Daheng took everyone to visit a series of hotel facilities such as large and small conference rooms, restaurants, dance parties, health center, beauty and hair center, and business center in the hotel.

   "Achen, how do you feel?" After walking around, Huo Daheng asked Yang Chen, who was still unsure.

  Yang Chen said without hesitation: "Let's not talk about Xiangjiang, even in foreign countries, it is difficult to see such a luxurious hotel. In my personal feeling, it has surpassed most of the five-star hotels abroad."

   "Haha... With your words, I have a bottom line in my heart."

   Huo Daheng is very satisfied with people who are accustomed to enjoying Yang Chen, to have such an evaluation.

   Huo Daheng is not afraid of Yang Chen's deliberate compliments. If other second-generation children of Xiangjiang see him, they may have such worries, but not here in Yang Chen.

  Yang Chen has always liked, saying one is one, saying two is two, if it feels bad, or it doesn't work, he won't hide it.

The leaders on the side were very happy when they heard it. The slogan of reform and opening up has been shouted for several years now, and the construction of the special zone has also achieved initial results. As the forefront of reform and opening up, they have done a lot in attracting investment. Work

  Unfortunately, the result was not very ideal.

   It does not mean that there are no Chinese businessmen willing to return to China to invest. In fact, many people have returned to China one after another, and many people have come with the mentality of building the motherland sincerely.

  However, the inland infrastructure was not perfect during this period. Most of the people who came back from the outside world, especially those big bosses with good money, really didn’t pay much attention to whether the infrastructure was good or not.

   After all, everyone knows that the country is still very backward, and most people have already prepared their minds before coming here.

   But, you guys can endure everything, but the living environment is very uncomfortable.

   For this, the government has not been able to come up with a good solution before, so they can only look at everyone and turn around and leave.

   Now that the White Swan Hotel has been built, it is conceivable that Yangcheng will be able to attract more foreign investment here in the future.

   "By the way, I heard that you kidnapped the Oriental Mandarin Hotel under Jardine?"

After hearing this, Yang Chen's face darkened, and he said depressedly: "Uncle Huo, look at what you said, what is robbery, I clearly acquired the shares of Landmark from the market through normal business channels, and obtained Dongfang's shares reasonably and legally. The right to operate the Mandarin Hotel…”

While listening, Huo Daheng calmly glanced at the big leader on the side, so he said, "How about the White Swan Hotel, you have seen it, and then there will be new constructions in the capital, Shanghai, Yangcheng, and Nanjing. The idea of ​​seven Sino-foreign joint venture hotels."

   "You now have the hotel foundation of Oriental Mandarin, what do you think about the Sino-foreign joint venture hotel? Do you have any ideas?"

   The big leader on the side said in a timely manner: "We very much welcome Mr. Yang to invest in Guangzhou, no matter in any industry, including hotels."

  Yang Chen hesitated for a moment, and said bluntly: "There is no problem with investment, but I personally think that for the next new hotel, we don't need to spend high prices to import those foreign materials.

  Since the country wants to open up, then in the future, the hotel industry will definitely not have only eight, so we don’t need to blindly build it according to the standard of five-star hotels…”

   Yang Chen has his own views on the hotel industry.

   Yang Chen doesn't agree with many hotels taking the high-end luxury route.

  Especially for a branded hotel, if you blindly pursue luxury, in the inland market, where the economy is developing rapidly in the future, no matter how luxurious it is now, these hotels will soon be outdated in the next few decades.

  The hotel is first for people to live in. It is very important for the guests to live comfortably. The blind pursuit of luxury can only attract those one-time consumers.

  A hotel must have its own characteristics, especially in terms of culture. Like the White Swan Hotel, which combines Chinese and Western characteristics, it is the magic weapon for a long-term success of a hotel.

   There are hundreds of five-star hotels in the country in later generations, and who consumes the profits of those hotels. This needs no introduction, and everyone must know it clearly.

   Blindly pursuing foreign standards makes domestic hotels lose their national characteristics. Yang Chen personally feels that this is a lack of culture.

  We can introduce first-class service standards from abroad, and we can also introduce first-class equipment to improve hotel services, but in terms of design, there is no need to completely copy foreign models.

   No matter what everyone thinks, anyway, Yang Chen personally doesn't look down on those so-called five-star hotels in later generations.

   After spending money, there is always a feeling of loss.

   Maybe it's not because of the rich!

   Anyway, that's how I personally feel!

  You should know that under normal circumstances, people who stay in hotels don’t care whether they have money or not, and don’t care why they stay in hotels. These people have a common feature, that is, to rest.

   For these people, the three most important things to stay in a hotel are a full meal, a bed and a bathtub, and the rest are secondary.

   As long as these three things are done well and the service is up to standard, you will be able to attract repeat customers.

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   (end of this chapter)