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Overview

Hostelworld is an Irish travel technology company founded in 1999 and based in Dublin. Its platform books hostel accommodation in thousands of cities. The company is listed on the London Stock Exchange.

News

News hostelworld.com 3 months ago
State of Solo Travel 2025
Ever wondered who solo travellers are, where they travel to and why they choose to travel solo? Hostelworld's 2025 State of Solo Travel Report reveals all.
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News The Irish Times 4 months ago
Hostelworld's growth held back by Gulf conflict
Backpackers more wary of travelling, with demand in Asia and Oceania worst hit by conflict
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News mediapost 4 months ago
Around the Net In Media: Hostelworld Retains Neverland Creative To Build Its Youth Audience
Hostelworld Retains Neverland Creative To Build Its Youth Audience - 07/10/2026
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Award PRNewswire 6 months ago
Best Hostel App (2026): Hostelworld Named Top Mobile App for Booking Hostels by Consumer365
/PRNewswire/ -- A new industry roundup from Consumer365 examining the best hostel app for 2026 highlights Hostelworld for its approach to social travel,...
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News RTE.ie 6 months ago
Hostelworld reiterates its full year guidance
Dublin-based hostel booking company Hostelworld said today that its overall revenues have not been materially affected by the current Middle East unrest, so far.
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News YahooFinance 12 months ago
Hostelworld Group (LON:HSW) Is Experiencing Growth In Returns On Capital
There are a few key trends to look for if we want to identify the next multi-bagger. In a perfect world, we
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News Silicon Republic 1 year ago
Hostelworld acquires US event discovery platform OccasionGenius for$12m
Dublion's Hostelworld has acquired US B2B event discovery platform OccasionGenius for €12m, with loan funding from AIB.
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News The Irish Times 3 years ago
Hostelworld boss: 'There are parts of the world where hostellers' budgets can go much further'
Hostelworld is planning how to win the minds of everybody from Baby Boomers to Gen-Xers
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News Skift 3 years ago
Our Next Brand Will Focus On Loneliness: Hostelworld CEO
Hostelworld CEO Gary Morrisson explains the company's mission to connect people and the business strategy behind it.
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News uk.investing.com 9 years ago
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Hostelworld over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
37
Postings analysed
3
Stack modernity
79/100AI adopter
Languages
Python
SQL
Frameworks & libraries
LangChain
LangGraph
LlamaIndex
Streamlit
Databases
Google BigQuery
PostgreSQL
Redis
Snowflake
Cloud & platforms
Tableau
GCP
Kubernetes
Vertex AI
AI & ML
LLM
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Growth

Hiring Momentum
64/100
Growing
Open positions
2
2 opened / 1 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
50 days
faster than 27% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~1 days
10/31/2026
Hiring Dynamics 0%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Data Science
33% ▼
Finance
33% ▲
HR
33% ▲
Activity Timeline
New location: Dublin Oct 2026
Removed Vector from stack Sep 2026
Added Machine Learning to stack Sep 2026
Added Agile to stack Sep 2026
Added Looker to stack Sep 2026
Added ETL/ELT to stack Aug 2026
Added Model Context Protocol to stack Aug 2026
Added AI Agents to stack Aug 2026
Added Structured Outputs to stack Aug 2026
Added Recommender Systems to stack Aug 2026
Added LLM Guardrails to stack Aug 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
1
Countries
2
Busiest office
Dublin
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Dublin Ireland
HQ
2 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 50-200 est. staff
hires for Finance, HR
seen since Oct 2026 job postings
Barcelona Spain
Regional office
Championing Sustainability
Carrer Major del Rectoret, 2, Sarrià-Sant Gervasi, 08017 Barcelona, Spain
company site
Earlier presence
Porto, Portugal 2 open roles · last posting Aug 2026