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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 36 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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Our Culture Code
As we've evolved over the last 25 years we've nurtured a pretty cool company culture. We have a clear sense of who we are and what it takes to be successful. Across 2024, we embarked on the journey to develop a Culture Code that truly reflects who we are as a company. This wasn’t about producing ‘just another corporate document.’ We wanted to create a genuine, living reflection of our shared beliefs and values and the unique culture we’ve built together. We didn’t want to build a Code to sit on a shelf. We wanted it to speak directly to the people who make up our company, capturing the essence of who we are and who we strive to be.
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.
About Hostelworld Group
Hostelworld Group plc is a ground-breaking social network-powered Online Travel Agent ("OTA") with a clear mission to help travellers find people to hang out with.
Our mission is founded on the insight that most travellers go hostelling to meet other people. Our platform connects travellers through a range of social features, including city and hostel chat rooms, AI-powered recommendations, and event discovery, facilitating real-world interactions before, during and after their trips.
Hostelworld's vision is to be the world's leading social travel platform. Since launching its social network in 2022, the Group has welcomed over 4.0 million social members, with engagement growing faster than stays booked. Social members book approximately twice as frequently as non-members and are three times more likely to use the app, demonstrating the platform's utility and its contribution to customer lifetime value.
Our proprietary dataset, spanning over 4.0 million social members, 19.0 million chat messages and 19.0 million bookings since launch, strengthens our ability to understand traveller behaviour, personalise experiences, and build network effects that differentiate Hostelworld from generalist OTAs. This data asset, which is exclusively ours and compounds in value as our community grows, underpins our AI-powered matching and recommendation capabilities.
Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Ireland, Hostelworld is a recognised brand with around 275 employees, hostel and accommodation partners across more than 180 countries, and a growing suite of products including budget accommodation and Social Passes that extend the platform well beyond the traditional hostelling category.
Hostelworld has a long-standing commitment to improving the sustainability of the hostelling industry. The Group has introduced a hostel-specific Staircase to Sustainability framework, accredited by the Global Sustainable Tourism Council, which helps partners adopt more sustainable practices while giving travellers clearer information for decision-making. Customers can choose to offset trip emissions, and for the fifth consecutive year the Group has retained the 'Taking Climate Action' label from South Pole.
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