Host: Over the past 12 years what role do you think the Linden Centre has played in cultural exchange and inheritance?-----
Brian: I guess from two points we feel very important is obviously we've tried to bring the world to Xizhou and we do that in a number of ways. We do it through tourism. People coming to stay at our hotel. We do it through education. So we try to get people here for a longer term. The education programmes focus on how can the village how can China's culture how can Yunnan's diversity be incorporated into the curriculum of the students. So not only do they come here and maybe play in the fields or walk to a hike, but they come here and really try to learn about the local people and interact with the local people. I think the other way we've done is that the Linden Center has in many ways we've put the local people we've made them the focus of our guest experience. This site the Linden Center has 16 guest rooms and we have around 50 staff. So we try to hire more people. We try to make the locals really the focus of an experience here, the ones who benefit the most from people staying here. We want the people to come here, We hope that they will come here because of what has existed here for hundreds of years. We want that to be the focus and that's why we've chosen a site where there's very little tourism and we've chosen a site that in some way can include the locals in our product in what we want the guests to experience and that's always been our mission. That's what we've tried to achieve.
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