Baima Duoji, Tibetan, the founder of Songtsam Boutique Lodges, and the Chairman of Board of Songtsam Group.

Starting in 2001, he established the first boutique lodge in Diqing, Yunnan Province – Songtsam Lvgu Lodge. During 2005 to 2011, he founded in consequence Songtsam Linka Retreat, Songtsam Benzilan Lodge, Songtsam Meili Lodge, Songtsam Cizhong Lodge, and Songtsam Tacheng Lodge. Based on these five boutique lodges and one Linka retreat, he created the innovative model of “Lodge + Tours”, the Songtsam Boutique Lodges & Tours.

In 2015, the construction of Songtsam Lhasa and Songtsam Lijiang started, together with a number of Songtsam boutique lodges along the Yunnan – Tibet Route. By 2018, the highly-expected Songtsam Yunnan-Tibet Tour will be opened to the guests. Baima Duoji has further plan of building more Songtsam lodges in east Tibet to create another Songtsam circuit tour in Tibet in 2019. And by 2020 he aims to complete mapping of Songtsam boutique lodges in Southwest Yunnan province.

【Key Facts】
- English Name : Baima Duoji
- Place of Birth : Shangri-la, Yunnan Province
- Achievement : Establishing the business model of Songtsam Boutique Lodges and Tours model
- Weibo : Songtsam Baima Duoji

【Experience】
1985-1990 Worked as photographer of news and documentaries for Bureau of Culture of Diqing, Yunnan Province
1991-1992 Studied in Beijing Film Academy
1993-2004 Worked as a documentary photographer and director for Overseas Center of China Central Television
2005-now Started working full-time for establishing of Songtsam Boutique Lodges and Tours

Grant Horsfield, Founder and Chairman of naked Group
Delphine Yip-Horsfield, Co chair of naked Group

Grand Horsfield is the Founder and Chairman of naked Group, a lifestyle business with a vision to create sanctuaries that are in harmony with the environment, where people can appreciate the simplicity of nature and embrace the naked lifestyle. the concept for the first naked resort -- naked Home -- which was launched in 2007.
naked’s signature resort – naked Stables in Moganshan, It inaugurated a new trend of discovering the natural rhythm of life in rural lodgings. Grant also received an environmental award from the Huzhou Government in 2008 for his tireless efforts in promoting eco-tourism in the rural areas which not only created jobs, but also pride for the local community.
Since 2015 the naked philosophy has expanded to learning and co-working spaces. With its innovation and unique design style, naked Hub is well known as a Chinese co-working space pioneer that is designed to help start-up’s, SME’s and MNC’s across all industries to interact, collaborate, and do business with one another while redesigning work.

Delphine Yip-Horsfield, Chairman & Chief Design Officer of naked Group, leads the naked Design Studio with masterplanning, architecture, interior design talents from all over the world. She also oversees branding and visual design for the naked Brand, which covers the three pillars of TRAVEL (naked Retreats..), WORK (naked Hub) and a space-sharing fitness platform, BULA. She is passionate about creating high quality, authentic and engaging experiences through design. She is also an avid advocate for sustainable design and led the team in achieving LEED Platinum certification for naked Stables.

Grant is living in Shanghai with his wife Delphine Yip and their two lovely daughters.

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In the past twelve years, Jim Spear has designed over 30 homes using old, empty peasant houses, The Schoolhouse, Brickyard Retreat, and agricultural projects around three villages in Bohai Township as well as planning and designs for clients elsewhere in Beijing and other areas in China.
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