Hostelworld

Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Ireland, Hostelworld is a well-known trusted brand with almost 230 employees, hostel partners in over 180 countries, and a long-standing commitment to building a better world. To that end, our focus over the last few years has been on improving the sustainability of the hostelling industry.

In particular, over the last two years we have commissioned independent research to validate the category’s sustainability credentials, and recently introduced a hostel specific sustainability framework which encourages our hostel partners to move to even more sustainable operations and also provides the data points for our customers to make more informed decisions about where they stay. *

In addition, our customers are now able to offset their trip’s carbon emissions should they wish to do so, and we have maintained our ‘Funding Climate Action’ label awarded by South Pole.