Chapter 140 Visit

There are many manors and castles in England, most of which have been abandoned, and a small part of the remaining ones still exist in private hands - those are nobles whose families' financial situation is still acceptable, but even so, most of them are still in private hands. Most of them need to be open to the public and charge tickets and other fees to supplement their huge repair costs.

As for most of the manors that are still in relatively good condition, they have been managed by various funds to protect ancient buildings. Even so, these funds are often unable to bear the cost of repairing all castles and manors. Many people see that the selling prices are extremely cheap. Those ancient castles in England were sold by these funds in order to reduce financial pressure.

However, although these castle estates are relatively cheap, buyers still need to bear repair costs that are much higher than this.

Barron's idea is to unify some of the castles and manors that are relatively well-known and have the most tourist value by the Devonshire Cultural Tourism Group, which is not limited to those manors owned by his family.

In this case, these castles and manors can be packaged and promoted uniformly. In addition to collecting tickets from tourists, the Cavendish Hotel Group can also open various styles of castle hotels or manor hotels in them.

In addition, rental services such as booking castle weddings and photography can also be divided into various grades for customers to choose from.

Of course, he just has such an idea now. As for whether he is willing to join it, it depends on the thoughts of the Rutland family.

"Our Devonshire Cultural Tourism Group will next carry out a series of promotions for its ancient castles and estates, including music festivals and marathon events, and many reality shows will also be held in its ancient castles in the future. If Belvoir Castle is also included in the filming, then relevant activities will be customized according to the characteristics of your manor."

It has to be said that after hearing these words of Barron, the Duchess of Rutland was indeed moved. She looked at Barron with her beautiful eyes and asked:

"So how do we cooperate?"

"This requires some discussion. You can still retain the ownership of the castle manor, such as our current Chatsworth Manor and Callan Castle. We just hand over the management of the entire manor to Wen Tourism Group, as for whether to directly obtain the group’s shares or cooperate with the group through sharing, it can be discussed.”

"I need to discuss it with my family before making a decision, Your Highness."

The matter was of great importance, and although Emma Manners was more moved by Barron's proposal to cooperate, she still could not make a decision directly.

"There is no problem with this. If we want to cooperate at that time, we can discuss this matter directly with the CEO of our cultural tourism group."

At this point, the conversation between the two of them this year is almost over.

At this time, the Duchess of Rutland stood up and stretched, fully displaying her graceful lines.

"The layout here is really beautiful. Your Highness the Duke, can you show me around?"

"It's a pleasure, ma'am."

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"This bed is indeed very soft..."

"You'd better lie down on it so you can have a better experience, ma'am."

"You are so considerate, Your Highness the Duke."

But in the end, both Barron and the Duchess of Rutland were very happy.

Especially the Duchess of Rutland, through visiting this hotel room, it will definitely be very helpful for her to run the manor in the future.

Through the last conversation between His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and Barron, and the news he later received from the Duke of Westminster, Barron finally decided to join the House of Lords and became a member of the House of Lords.

Of course, this will not take up too much of his time. After all, he can choose the topics he is interested in and participate in the meetings of the House of Lords.

By mid-December, the first two seasons of "Downton Abbey" finally completed filming and entered post-production.

During this process, Sinclair Group has also been negotiating with SEM Group, but their overall valuation of SEM Group did not satisfy Barron, and the negotiations were deadlocked.

This kind of negotiation will definitely require one party to make more compromises in the end, although Barron is willing to let the Sinclair Group join the SEM Group and become its shareholder to use the content resources of the Sinclair Group to help them fill the SDTV play time, but the premise is that in this investment, Sinclair Group will not make SEM Group look too "cheap".

Therefore, negotiations between the two parties are ongoing intermittently, but so far, there has been no substantial progress.

Everything needs to wait until "Downton Abbey" is officially broadcast. This TV series produced by Summit Media is still very important. For SEM Group, the success of "Downton Abbey" will not only allow them to In cooperation with Sinclair Group, we got better conditions.

And "Downton Abbey" also plays a very important role in whether SDTV can become an instant hit.

According to "Downton Abbey" producer Julian, this time the actors performed very well and will present the audience with a wonderful series.

Before it is ready to be broadcast, SEM Group also started promotion and warm-up for this series.

At this time, London received its first snowfall since the beginning of winter.

This is also the first snow that Barron has seen in this time and space.

When the snow began to fall at noon, Barron had just come out of the Lloyd Building where DS Capital was located. When he saw snowflakes floating in the sky, he also received a call from Bonnie.

On the phone, Bonnie said to him with a joyful voice:

"Honey, did you see it? It's snowing."

"Yes, honey, London is beautiful right now."

"I originally thought it wouldn't start snowing until after Christmas, but this year it was a surprise. By the way, I just finished watching the edited first two episodes of "Downton Abbey" and it was very amazing."

"That's really good news."

"In addition, there is news that our variety show "The Traitors" has been nominated for the British Film Academy Awards and will compete for the Best Variety Show Award in February next year."

As one of the most popular variety shows this year, "The Traitors" can be said to be the most popular reality show in the UK. It is not too surprising to receive this nomination.

"What a perfect day, baby, it seems like we should celebrate."

"I can get off work early today. Depending on the situation, we might be able to build a snowman in the yard before dinner."

"pretty good idea."

After hanging up the phone, Barron said to Frank:

"Stop at the intersection ahead. I'll go to the flower shop over there to buy a bouquet of flowers."

"Okay, Your Highness the Duke."