Without a doubt, every person on the planet loves to relax and simply cannot imagine his life without a long-awaited vacation. Someone prefers to travel the world in order to see its beauty and meet new people, others dream of lying on hot sand under the scorching sun near the sea or on the ocean, and there are those who want to plunge into the history of their country and look at the expanses where descendants once lived. All desires concerning trips around Russia and travel abroad are fulfilled by one organization created specifically for this purpose. Its name is heard by many - "Rostourism". It is about her that will be discussed in the material, and to be more precise, we will talk about her head Oleg Safonov, who has been in office since 2014.
Becoming
Our today's hero was born in Astana (Kazakhstan) on May 26, 1969. By the way, during his childhood, his native city was called Tselinograd. After school, which Oleg Safonov graduated from in Kazakhstan in 1986 withhonors, he went to Moscow with big plans. In the capital, a young, purposeful guy easily entered the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation at the Faculty of Finance and Credit.
In 1991, he received a diploma, which, like Safonov's school certificate, was with honors. Such personnel have always been valuable in our country, so Oleg's dizzying career began to rapidly gain momentum. By the way, shortly after graduating from the university, the young man wrote a dissertation and defended it, receiving the title of candidate of economic sciences. He is currently a happy family man and father of three.
Career advancement
Already by the age of 34, Oleg Safonov has reached considerable heights. His track record is quite extensive, so it’s worth dwelling on each post he conquered in more detail:
- From 2003 and for four whole years ahead, Safonov was the top manager of the most influential stock exchange in our country - the RTS.
- Since 2007, the profile of his activity has changed a little - Oleg Safonov moved from finance to management. He was appointed deputy director of the huge enterprise Uralvagonzavod.
- After a year and a half in a senior position at a large industrial enterprise, Oleg Petrovich returned to his roots, becoming a financial director at the Center for High Technologies.
- In the period from 2011, Oleg Safonov was an adviser to the General Director of the MICEX, and also at that time bought a controlling stake"Project Finance Bank", which was recently closed.
- In 2014, Safonov bought back all the shares of the Regional Savings Bank from its five permanent owners, becoming the sole owner of all rights to it and a controlling package of documents.
- It is also worth noting that 2014 was full of significant events in Safonov's life: on May 6, he was appointed to the post of head of Rostourism, and from that moment a completely new chapter in his career began, to which we will pay closer attention attention.
Rostourism
Safonov Oleg Petrovich came to the post in the company responsible for all tourism in Russia, inspired by many ideas and with rich managerial experience behind him. Of course, he had to work hard to not only join the industry hitherto unknown to him, but also to change the situation in the tourism market, turning it in a positive direction.
People who travel the world take a lot of money out of our country, so Safonov defined the main task for the Russian economy as an attempt to keep Russian tourists in their native spaces. Although the head of Rostourism, Oleg Safonov, has repeatedly said in his interviews that the human right to travel and travel abroad is spelled out in the Constitution of the Russian Federation, he firmly believes that it is possible to have a decent rest - with comfort and inexpensively - in your homeland.
Raise performance
He and his colleagues are trying to do everything possible to bring Russia to a leading position in the field of tourism in the near future. Now, in terms of attendance by foreigners, our country closes the top ten, but, according to Safonov, the plans are to rise to third place, and it is better, of course, to become the first in this industry.
Steps towards leadership
Due to the fact that the road to the resorts of Turkey and Egypt is currently closed to Russian tourists, and they, as you know, have been the most popular over the past decade, many of our compatriots have opted for the Black Sea resorts of Russia. Thanks to this, a huge amount of finance remained in our homeland, and this turn of events largely stabilized the economic situation in the regions and made it possible to think about attracting foreign tourists to the Russian expanses. Oleg Safonov, whose biography is completely saturated with the ability to competently manage and invest money, decided with all responsibility to diversify Russian tourism:
- Many people around the world buy a package tour, which already includes flights, accommodation, sometimes meals, excursions and more. So, Safonov offered to sell just such vouchers for foreigners who would like to visit our country, because this option is considered the most acceptable: a person does not worry about where to live, where to eat and how to organize leisure in an unfamiliar place.
- Safonov considers another important point to attract foreign tourists and the desire of Russian citizens to have a rest on the territory of the Russian Federationbrand expansion. The brand in this case is a well-known route. For example, the brand "Golden Ring of Russia" has recently turned 50 years old, and the flow of tourists who want to look at the beauties of the cities of the tour does not thin out from year to year, but, on the contrary, only grows. Now the brand "Silver Necklace" has been developed, which includes 12 regions, tours "Eastern Ring of Russia" and "Volga".
- The last place in this list is to put specialized tourism. Oleg Safonov says that it would be nice to develop religious tourism. For example, in Kalmykia, where they adhere to Buddhism. There is a peculiar atmosphere and unconventional for many Russians, and not only architecture. Even in our country, it is possible to develop ethnographic tourism, showing the life of the Cossacks, and Arctic tourism, which will attract a large tourist flow due to its unusualness. By the way, the route for him has already been thought out: on an icebreaker from Murmansk to the land of Franz Josef.
This is interesting
At the beginning of his career as the head of "Rostourism" Safonov Oleg Petrovich was caught in a lie. This was due to the fact that he had two luxurious villas in the Seychelles, and he himself called on the Russians to relax in the open spaces of the Russian Federation. The situation stabilized only when Oleg Safonov sold his property. He assures that now he prefers rest in Altai or Chukotka.
