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Former head of Russian office of booking.com joins Ostrovok.ru team

08:07, 16 сентября 2011

The position of Vice-President of Russia’s online hotel booking company Ostrovok.ru has been taken by the former head of Russian regional office of booking.com Mr. Andrew Pyner.

During his 20-year-long career in hotel business in Russia and CIS Andrew Pyner has become a true pioneer in Russia’s hospitality industry. Among all the professionals on the market he possesses perhaps the vastest experience in working with Russian hotels. His career started in 1996 when was employed at Gulliver’s (GTA) Company, where Mr. Pyner had been responsible for relations with CIS regions. After 10 successful years at GTA Andrew moved to Russia to work at Expedia’s branch office, where he was establishing the company’s network of partner hotels in Russia, Ukraine and Baltic states. In 2008 Andrew Pyner took the leading position at the Moscow regional office of Booking.com.

“After Andrew Pyner joined the Ostrovok.ru staff it became one of the best teams on Russian online booking market. Andrew’s task is to create the largest hotels database for the Russian-speaking internet users both within the country and abroad, and he has a serious experience in this very field” – comments the cofounder and Director General of Ostrovok.ru Mr. Sergey Fagge.

“Ostrovok.ru is developing very fast and I am sure that my experience in hotel industry will add dynamics to this movement, - says Andrew Pyner – I am also pleased to know that Ostrovok is a Russian project. I have been studying and working in Russia for a long time and I’m glad to continue my performance in this country of all others”.

Professional of the highest level is the most valuable asset of the company that is why it pays so much attention to its human resources’ recruitment, education, incentive as well as to the creation of this special corporate culture. The company’s HR department has been built in accordance with the highest standards of Silicon Valley’s startups, which actually brings positive results; the team comprises professionals who used to work in such companies as Yandex, VympelKom, Groupon, Artemy Lebedev Studio and Booking.com.

  “I fully understand the standpoints of the specialists who leave well-developed projects for Ostrovok.ru. Apart from the colossal opportunities for professional advancement they are attracted by the atmosphere that has been established be the company owners – says the Press Secretary of the Russian Union of Travel Industry Mrs. Irina Tiurina – creative office space, flexible hours, an opportunity to discuss the latest business developments while playing pool or table tennis with co-workers – where else in Russia can you find this. And the result goes beyond all expectations: Ostrovok is rapidly gaining momentum, conquering new horizons, including those of human resources in its segment of the Russian Internet”.

 

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