Olga Dolgova is a Head of the HotelStar hotel consolidator

Personnel changes are being underway at the highest level in the Vipservice holding. All of them are aimed at strengthening the company's position in the market. Olga Dolgova takes the Managing Director position of the HotelStar separate Consolidator starting from November 15, 2021. She previously held a similar position in the Corporate Block and demonstrated high professional performance. Under Olga’s management, this business unit has accumulated strong competitive advantages: process automation, high agent productivity, creation of the Oko predictive analytics system etc.

Irina Solovieva, General Director of the Holding, comments on Olga’s appointment: “Such a decision is strategically important for the holding. There is a task to turn the block of placements functioning into third in terms of turnover and into second in terms of income business in our portfolio, and such an experienced manager like Olga should be able to do it. "

“The task is difficult and challenging, though precise. We will work in this direction. The recently received MBA education in Higher School of Economics will help a significantly,” Olga Dolgova commented on her inauguration.

HotelStar, Information

The holding was founded in 1993. The largest Russian consolidator for sale of air and railway tickets, travel and related services. More than 13 million passengers travel annually using travel documents issued through the holding. Ticket sales of Vipservice in terms of figures of travel documents sold exceed figures of entire countries, for example, Thailand. Today Vipservice is more than 8 types of business: subagent network, corporate travel service, online ticket agency, development of IT systems, aggregators of transport and hotel content, concierge service, and training center. As an operator, Vipservice manages three hotel projects.

HotelStar is an online platform solution to serve requests for reservations of ground services. Today HotelStar is integrated as the only hotel aggregator into the Vipservice holding systems: Portbilet and Portbilet TMC. HotelStar includes all the miscellaneous hotel content, from its own contracts with placements to leading foreign consolidators. HotelStar content is also replenished with transport providers, VIP-lounges and other ground handling services.