Who are the people who open inns in Lijiang?

I have been running an inn in Lijiang for ten years, and I started driving through Lijiang on the Yunnan-Tibet Road 15 years ago. I think I have the right to answer your questions,

About Who are the people who open inns in Lijiang? It is most appropriate to divide them in chronological order, using 2008 and 2009 as the boundary!

Most of the people who opened inns before this were of a certain age, had a relatively rich life experience, and had a certain economic foundation. In the original city, they had the scenery of the past. For various reasons, there are people who cannot or are unwilling to continue. For example, among my friends who run an inn, there are painters who are unwilling to paint for money, a manager of a securities company in Shanghai who has retired, and a political commissar of a public security department in Shanxi. Third place in a motorcycle cross-country race in 2002, top six in a singing competition in Xi'an, professional trader, founder of a company, bearish on world affairs, manager of non-performing assets of a bank in a company in Shandong, etc., mixed with some "retired" mistresses , I won’t talk about unfashionable topics. What these people have in common is that they have a certain amount of knowledge, a good economic foundation, and love to travel. They have left behind the original environment of feasting, singing and dancing, and took off their suits. Leather shoes have been replaced by outdoor clothes, and there is a taste for life. Food and travel are restricted. Almost everyone keeps silent about the past, only talks about the present and the future, and lives with an unrestrained and laissez-faire spirit. There are even some people who live in seclusion in the city and have hobbies. There are many kinds, including hiking and self-driving photography, history and culture, Buddhist scriptures and tea ceremony. The only difference is that no one plays mahjong anymore. Hehe, most of the guests in Lijiang at this time are from the 60s and 70s, and so are the guests. I have a house, a car, and a solid economy. You can naturally imagine how happy it is for an innkeeper like this to be with such guests. The guests will indeed spend a lot of money, but they will have a good experience in travel and spiritual communication, and they can even benefit from travel. You can get enlightenment in life and work and experience what spiritual indulgence is. This is why you have seen in the news before that some guests come to Lijiang several times a year, because it not only has the scenery they need He Jingjing, mentors, and spiritual friends,

Later, things gradually changed, and the guests who came gradually became those born in the 1980s and 1990s. Just save two or three months of salary. Come out and travel on a budget and make tourism popular! Travel is also a fast-food way of looking around. Most of these people just need services and are not willing to sit down and drink tea and chat. What they need is to travel around and see the scenery without settling down their lives, and they are not willing to listen to the "lessons" of people with experience. , the people who come to open inns have become businessmen who are just here to dig for gold, and these businessmen have no connotation, no interest in life, no life experience, and only money in their eyes! The rents are getting higher and higher, so that Whether they can make money or not is another matter. What story will come out of a relationship between a businessman who wants money and a poor traveler who doesn't have much money? That is the Lijiang you see in the various news reports. It has changed from before, and people like us in the past are gradually fleeing from Lijiang.

Lijiang is still the same Lijiang as before, and the scenery is still beautiful. It is still a holy place for tourism, but it is not suitable for those who want to spiritually settle, sublime, and relax mentally. Please find another place! Because the connotation of Lijiang is no longer rich, it has been tainted by gold-mining businessmen in recent years.

Lijiang used to have inconvenient transportation. To go there, one must have a solid financial foundation, one must have strong inner desire and preparation, and the other must be willing to spend the time. Several factors. To sum up, it means that the people who go to play have a very humanistic spirit, which is the mainstream.

At that time, Lijiang was not very commercialized and prices were low. Many people from developed areas could easily discover the business opportunities there, rent a house or open an inn. They did not plan to make a fortune, but just thought about taking it easy. Simply earn enough money to maintain a decent life, and the customers who come and go are all very different and speak the same language. Compared with the original urban life, it is a completely different feeling in the world. If the business starts early, this kind of life will It can last almost twenty years. Later, roughly around 1000, transportation became more convenient, and a large number of pure business talents entered the market. People who went there just to post on Moments and show off that they had been to Lijiang also became Lijiang. It also changed the taste.

The most important thing is that the local management agencies, even compared with domestic counterparts with many problems, are frighteningly lagging behind in terms of management philosophy and management level. Generally speaking, when you encounter problems, you will return to the eighth level. Just like in the 1900s, you are caught off guard by the faces of bureaucrats, and the privileged mentality that you think you have achieved, condoning customer rip-offs, covering up black cars and black directors, and approving fraudulent travel programs. The kind of ignorance that completely loses simplicity can make you thrilling. . In this case, who do you think is still running an inn? It is said that businessmen are looking up to them. The mainstream should be said to be businessmen who are exploiting the sidelines. It is a gray society where government and businessmen collude to deceive people!

Basically, outsiders contracted local houses there, and then renovated them and opened inns. I remember that I was visiting Dali and asked a local tour guide to take them. Her house only had about ten rooms. Others contracted the contract, and the annual rent was said to be more than 100,000 yuan. Then the young couple rented a small house to live in. She usually works as a tour guide, while her husband drives a private car to drive tourists, and the children are sent to school in other places. Basically, the bigger the house for locals, the more rooms there are, and the higher the rent.

For outsiders, locals only charge rent.