Sergey Strelnikov has been appointed Managing Director of the Ground Services Platform HotelStar

The development, commercial and operational blocks of the ground services platform, another IT solution of the Vipservice holding, will be united under a single management for the benefit of the client. The structure will be headed by Sergey Strelnikov, the new managing director. Previously, Sergey served as the technical director of the development group. He has over 10 years of experience in project management, business analysis, IT product development, as well as agile project management, marketing analysis, and product promotion strategy development.

 “The pandemic is forcing our customers to rethink their relationships with hotel content providers and aggregators. Technologies that reduce the cost of obtaining content and transparency of commercial terms for purchasing placements that increase efficiency and control over the budget are two of the most important issues on the travel agenda of most large companies. Sergei's appointment is a logical final step in the transition of HotelStar's solution from an aggregator of someone else's content to a high-tech platform for selling its own,” says Irina Solovyova, CEO of the holding.

“My experience in integrating IT solutions, coupled with knowledge of the full life cycle of developing Internet projects, will bring interesting breakthrough solutions for further improving the HotelStar platform, we will offer our users the most innovative services, anticipating their needs. This year HotelStar enters the B2B market as an independent platform solution for booking ground services, and I will do my best to make the project successful,”comments Sergey Strelnikov.

Sergey Strelnikov, info
April 2021 - Vipservice, Managing Director of Ground Services Platform HotelStar
January 2018 - Vipservice, Technical Director of the Development Group
October 2013 - UTS Travel, Project Manager 

Education and qualifications
Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation, Institute of Public Administration and Management, Project and Program Management
Russian State University for the Humanities, Institute of Psychology. L.S. Vygotsky, Psychology of performance
SYNERGY Business School, Digital Economy and Artificial Intelligence - Project Management
Leadership Management® International, Inc. Effective Strategic Leadership, Effective Leadership Development, Effective Presentation, Effective Management
Bauman MSTU, Agile - Scrum. Agile project management

Vipservice holding, info
The holding was founded in 1993. Today Vipservice is more than 8 types of business: subagent network, corporate travel service, online ticket agency, individual outbound tourism services and training center. As an operator, Vipservice manages a federal network of service centers for booking air and rail transportation, as well as three hotel projects.
More than 13 million passengers travel annually using travel documents issued through the holding. Ticket sales of Vipservice in terms of the number of sold travel documents exceeds entire countries, for example, Thailand.