Ready for your next adventure?
At Hostelworld our mission is to help travellers make lasting memories, meet like-minded friends and become a place where unforgettable experiences are born.
Community is at the heart of our product and our team, with colleagues from 31 nationalities coming together through a shared passion for travel.
If you love travel, connecting with people from all walks of life, and want to build a better world, we want to hear from you!
How we work
We understand the power of travel; the joy to be found by broadening our horizons through experiencing new places and meeting people from different cultures. We understand that for many travellers the journey and the people encountered along the way are far more important than the destination.
It’s the same for our team. We get stuff done while also enjoying how we deliver cool things – our journey together matters!
When at work, we want our people to gain as much experience as possible, to learn and grow, to feel like they are part of something, and to make meaningful connections with others they meet along their way.
What we offer
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We invest in you 😍
From day one, we ensure your salary and benefits are competitive for your role and location. We reward great performance through our employee bonus schemes. We also want to help you grow and advance in your career, investing in you through our learning and development and career advancement opportunities.
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We value your time ⌛
We want you to enjoy as much time as possible pursuing your passions and hanging out with your loved ones. Equality is important to us, so we’ve made sure we have something for everyone. We offer enhanced annual leave, volunteering days, paid family leave, fertility and surrogacy leave, the list goes on. On top of that, our Working from Abroad Policy means you can continue to travel and meet the world.
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We care about your wellbeing 💖
We're a community, bringing people together from around the globe who look out for their colleagues. We believe in taking a holistic approach to wellbeing, offering a range of wellbeing benefits like 3 paid wellbeing days a year, flexible working, a menopause policy, EAP, free webinars, and career break opportunities.
We're an international team
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We're building a better world
We're committed to making the world a more sustainable, ethical and better place to be for future generations. Our ESG strategy helps us create positive impact internally with our team, and externally for the planet and local communities we visit.
Our Hostelworld behaviours
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Grow Others
We believe that investing in growing others benefits everyone, whether it’s helping them develop hard or soft skills.
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Master It
We're obsessed with our area of expertise and enjoy developing our skills.
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Collaborate
We work collaboratively and welcome diverse thinking to produce the best results.
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Adapt
We work fluidly, adapting to new information and the evolving environment, while staying committed to our goals.
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Deliver
Our focus is always on the end result; we value outcomes over activity.
What's it like to work here?
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Working at Hostelworld is fun, exciting and I get to spend most of my days in a multi-cultural work environment, where learning something new and challenging myself is encouraged and celebrated.
Josh Cole
Area Manager
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The best part of working here is that I get to learn new things on daily basis. Team members are always willing to help and spend time with you so we can grow together.
Laura Simoni
Junior Software Engineer
About Hostelworld Group
Our vision is to be the world’s leading social travel platform.
We are on a mission to help travellers find their people and create unforgettable moments together. Connections matter as much as destinations, and we are building a global ecosystem to enable them.
Since the launch of our social network in the hostelling category in 2022, Hostelworld has experienced transformational growth. We have successfully welcomed over 2.6 million social members to our platform, proving the strong demand for connection in travel. This vibrant community is not just booking trips; they are actively engaging, co-creating, and becoming our most powerful brand advocates. The platform is rich with user-generated content, including a rapidly growing volume of customer testimonials and authentic travel stories that provide powerful social proof.
The growth in engagement is remarkable: the number of messages sent between travellers has grown significantly faster than the number of trips booked by social members, demonstrating the deep social utility of our platform. This momentum is reflected in our robust financial health, underscored by a strong balance sheet powered by an asset-light, cash-generative business model.
We are not just another Online Travel Agent (OTA); we have created a new category of travel altogether: Social Travel. Our singular focus on helping travellers find people to hang out with is the foundation of our strategy. It has allowed us to build a powerful and defensible market position, which attracts highly valuable customers and shifts more of our business onto our mobile-native apps.
While our app and social features create a sticky user experience, our true competitive moat stems from the incredibly rich, proprietary data set generated by our social network. As our community grows, so does the value of this data, creating a compounding network effect that is nearly impossible to replicate. This "social flywheel" allows us to understand traveller behaviour, predict needs, and personalise experiences in ways that generalist OTAs cannot match. It is the engine that will power our long-term, differentiated growth and solidify our position as the sole player in the Social Travel category we created.
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