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Karelia's hotels go online with Ostrovok.ru

11:46, 27 августа 2012

Karelia is one of the most popular tourist destinations in Russia along with Baikal, Altay and Caucasus. Every year this region receives about a million visitors. Yet there is a serious shortage of hotels here which offer online booking. There were only about 15 hotels that offered such services before Ostrovor.ru was launched. Now the site lists 43 hotels, guest houses and hostels where you can book a room online.

 

At the moment Ostrovok.ru offers the biggest variety of accommodation in Karelia. Most of the hotels are tourist centers, located on the shores of biggest lakes in Europe: Ladoga and Onega. Ostrovok.ru also offers booking in Petrozavodsk, Kondopoga, Medvezhyegorsk, Segezha, Olonets, Sortavala, Belomorsk and other notable places in the region.

 

Hotels offer a wide variety of activities and services to their guests: fishing, hunting, jet skis, tours of islands and monasteries, airport and train station transfers and many others. The average price on a room is about $50 per night. The booking can be done at Ostrovok.ru.

 

“We’re working on enhancing our accommodation base, because today about 70% of hotels are not connected to any online-booking systems, which really limits the tourists’ options – says Head of Ostrovok.ru, Kirill Makharinsky. – There are many places in Russia, whre the hoteliers don’t actually know about digital booking. For instance, in Altay, Baikal, Kamchataka and Caucasus. And we feel that our mission is to give them an opportunity to use these great services”.

 

Ostrovok.ru is an online booking service. The company was founded in 2010 by two college graduates – one from Stanford and one from Oxford – Kirill Makharinsky and Sergey Fagge. Both of them worked in the Silicon Valley and created web projects in USA and Russia alike. For the Ostrovok.ru project they called upon some international investors like GeneralCatalystPartners, AccelPartners, Atomico, FoundersFund, and compiled a team of skilled experts from Russian and international companies.

 

Today the Ostrovok.ru database houses more than 130 thousand hotels in 200 countries, and the resource has a big team working solely with hoteliers in CIS countries. Apart from having a huge variety of hotels, being user-friendly and having Russian tech support, Ostrovok.ru also has the lowest prices on booking, compared to other services of such nature. Every day the webpage is visited by more than a 100 thousand people, and the monthly income growth amounts to 60%.

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