A longstanding guiding principle at Hostelworld is ‘Building a Better World.’ We want to do the right thing because we care about our people, our customers, our partners, and our planet. We have placed ESG at the core of our culture and our category.
Hostelworld is a social network powered online travel agent focused on the hostel market. We connect customers with hostel partners who make bookings via our website or our apps.
Our sustainability strategy is twofold.
Firstly, we want to ensure we operate sustainably and conduct our business in the right way, choosing the right partners and managing our own emissions. We work continuously to reduce our scope 1 and 2 emissions down to nominal values, achieved through agile ways of working, favouring smaller, environmentally conscious co-working spaces and our tech infrastructure is fully cloud hosted.
Secondly, we promote the inherent sustainability characteristics of the hostelling industry and we drive meaningful change by working to assist our supply chain in optimising how they operate. In doing so, we can help our travellers find and book the most sustainable travel options.
Our engineers have worked on developing sustainable products each year. Our customers have the option to offset the emission cost of their hostel stay by making a climate contribution. We also offer sustainability focused Linkups on our platform, enabling customers to participate in hostel hosted sustainability events. Our most significant work centres on our hostel supply, with the launch of our Staircase to Sustainability framework.
