What the hell is a private enterprise?

Chapter 179 Tickets First Release (Supplementary 24th)
7:55 am.

In Echeng, next to Gaijin Network Technology Company, is the online ticketing center of the Dayuan Scenic Area.

Tang Wen and a group of township leaders stood in silence in the telephone room, waiting and staring silently at the wall clock.

There are 8 independent workstations in the room, each with a computer and a telephone, and a trained professional operator and typist sitting in front of them.

When the clock strikes 9 o'clock, the indicator light on the switchboard lights up, indicating that the post office is open.

Almost at the same time, a landline phone rang, and Tang Wen next to him felt his heart tighten.

The female operator immediately picked up the phone and asked quickly in a soft voice:
"Hello, this is the Great Bay War Tourism Area. Is there anything I can help you with?"

"Um, I need to book a ticket. The 388 ticket includes accommodation and transfers."

The speaker of the old telephone was very loud, and Tang Wen could hear it clearly.

The female operator said: "Okay, 388 for a one-day luxury accommodation package, right? Please provide your personal information and I will help you with the ticket."

"Zhou XX, ID number is 41293XXXXXXXXX.

Excuse me, I need to confirm again. I will be arriving in Goose City by train tomorrow morning. Is there a shuttle service available at any time?"

Female operator: "Yes, there are free shuttle buses all day long at the train station and bus station. It's right under the biggest sign as soon as you exit the station. Please make sure you don't make the mistake.

I'd like to confirm your personal information again: Zhou XX, ID number is 4...

If everything is confirmed, please remit the money to our official account. We will issue the ticket immediately after receiving the receipt and you can pick it up at the pick-up point with your ID number.

"Okay, okay, I'm at the bank, wait a minute..."

When the first order transaction was underway, other phones soon became active, with 8 landlines working at the same time.

The professional operators were very efficient, spoke clearly and were well aware of the process, typing out strings of information on the screen at a rapid pace.

About an hour later, Tang Wen saw the data on the backend server next to him: the ticket booking data of 8 computers were monitored and recorded in real time, and the total number of tickets ordered was 174 through 212 phone calls.

At least we have the Internet. Although it is still very imperfect, it can already do a lot of things.

With the support of Gaijin Network Technology Company, a dedicated channel between the ticketing center and the bank was successfully established.

The bank will regularly summarize the remittance information and send it back to the ticketing center for local verification, filtering out the "paid" and "unpaid" categories.

The "paid" category will print out the ticket and send it to the tourist when the time comes.

There are interconnected computers in Dayuan Village, Echeng pick-up point, and ticketing center, which can be used to check ticket status online and easily summarize income.

The main purpose of this system is to facilitate telephone ticket booking. Because the prices in the Greater Bay Area are too high, it is unrealistic to rely on the local user base, and the user base must be expanded.

The online ticket booking system is highly efficient, has a low probability of error, and is easy to manage tourist information.

Although Tang Wen thought the system was already very simple, he still invested a huge amount of money to implement it. He set up several dedicated lines, trained typists to use the ticket booking website, and asked the bank to work together to set up a special network processing room.

He originally wanted to contact the local police department to check whether his personal information was correct, but the latter's network system was only implemented last year, and the connection was too troublesome, so he had to give up.

However, to others, this was simply astonishing. The ticket booking system developed by Gaijin Network Company was unprecedented - it was eye-opening.

For the first time, they truly experienced the tremendous convenience brought by the Internet, especially Agricultural Bank of China's Vice President Zhang, who even vaguely thought of online payment.

The computer ticketing system quickly compiled the ticket purchase data as of 10::

“电话订票212张，BBS在线订票277张，88元基础门票184张，388元套票305张！
The bank won’t send back the verification data until 14 p.m., so now I only have an estimated income of 134532 yuan!

Song Nan stared at the computer and calmly read out the numbers on it.

"What?" Tang Wen was a little surprised, because BBS ticket bookings exceeded telephone bookings!
The online ticket booking link was put there after the ticketing system was set up. It was just a very crude webpage, originally intended to be placed in the military section of the BBS in the hope of attracting some netizens.

He didn't expect to get many online orders at all. After all, there were only a few active users on the BBS, and most of them were students. Who would be willing to spend so much money?

Not only him, but even Lu Jun who was waiting with him was stunned.

The two of them hurried to check the BBS and found that in just ten minutes, the number was now 376.

Online ticket booking does not require telephone verification and theoretically supports countless people operating at the same time, which is definitely much more efficient.

Lu Jun: "Are people who use the internet so rich? They must be using thousands of tickets a day."

"No, no, that's not it."

Tang Wen calmed down. There were less than a thousand people on the BBS who had the money and were willing to book tickets. They were probably just concentrated at this time. After all, many people in the military section were military fans, so their level of attention was definitely higher.

By the afternoon, the increasing trend will drop to a very low level and eventually stabilize at a certain number.

Lu Jun was a little disappointed, but he immediately cheered up. After all, one thousand people was not a small number.

There were 13 orders in the first hour, and if 75% of them were finally paid, it would mean a revenue of 10.

And this is probably not the real potential, because the 8 telephones have never been disconnected since they were opened, and many tourists have repeatedly called because the lines are busy.

"Immediately increase the number of operators to 20!"

Tang Wen: "Computers and telephones are easy to find, but there are too few operators who can type. We only have these eight who were urgently trained."

Lu Jun shook his arm, as if a matter of life and death was at stake:

"My dear Boss Tang, the phone is money! Today is Friday, and I'm looking forward to the weekend!
Only banks and government agencies have people with clear voices and who can type. I'll call and ask for them right away!"

The Greater Bay Area is a large project with an investment of hundreds of millions of dollars. Director Gao is personally overseeing it, so Lu Jun is not afraid of taking advantage of the situation.

He hurriedly took out his phone and borrowed Tang Wen's car to call for help.

……

In addition to booking tickets by phone and online, with the support of the Goose City government, train ticket/air ticket/bus ticket purchasing points in many major cities in the province have also taken over the ticket booking business. However, they do not have a computer system and can only send back information by fax and phone, which has a large time delay.

Compared with the first two methods, there are many offline ticket purchasing services, and most people will book train tickets when they book tickets.

In order to tap the potential of the tourist area, the ticketing center's hotline is open from 8:20 to :.

Then all the data will be summarized and tickets will be issued before 22 p.m., and the work will basically not be finished until midnight.

At 14: PM, the first batch of data from the Agricultural Bank of China was delivered to:

There were 1264 remittances totaling 21 yuan, of which 388 types of tickets accounted for 20%, which was higher than expected.

Taking into account the unabated remittance trend and transfer delays, the summary data for the whole day will be delivered before 20:2500, which is expected to be around 35 transactions, with ticket revenue of around 45 to yuan.

At the same time, data from purchasing points across Guangdong Province were also counted in the morning, exceeding one thousand.

Tang Wen looked at the ticketing building again and saw a long queue at the local ticket center next to it.

Compared with publicity from other places, local people in Echeng have long known about the group of planes "buzzing" in Da Wan. Many of them have seen it in real life, and many people are still willing to go and see the excitement.

However, compared with booking tickets from other places, probably less than 20% of local tourists will buy expensive airplane and battleship tours, and the others will probably just buy tickets, with an additional consumption of at most one or two hundred yuan.

(End of this chapter)