Hostel Doctor

Make your hostel a more sustainable business with our expert advice. We consult on ESG and making your business a long-term success. www.hosteldoctor.com

Keep your hostel healthy with great design and marketing. We offer professional client services for backpacker businesses, ranging from brand strategy to creative content and interior design. Put your marketing in our hands and see what we can do for your business. Mission
Our mission is to help hostels effectively market themselves, through better brand positioning, and being the best they can b

e. Step in to our clinic and see what we can do for you. We offer all design and marketing services from your merchandise to content writing, and we'll even give you a diagnosis for free. Contact us on [email protected]

If you want to find out more about us, just check out www.hosteldoctor.com. You can look at the services we offer online.

13/04/2026

"One Story at a Time" - Italian adventurer, documenter and writer Nicolò Guarrera travelled 36,146km walking around the world. He joined us in Venice to discuss slow travel, purpose, and his book. Read his interview here

Famous Hostels

24/02/2026

The professionals conference has begun! Learning and sharing from discussions and workshops - and the amazing story of 5 years walking the world with
Thank you for the awesome hospitality!

21/02/2026

Finally the “Like It’s 1995” documentary from has been fully released. 🎥🎬🎞️

Take a look at a nostalgic look at the history of backpacker hostels through the eyes of those who made them famous.

For those of you lucky enough to see the premiere in Ibiza, new footage and interviews have been added, including from founder and backpacking legend Tony Wheeler!

https://youtu.be/nLdDfAdHltU

17/02/2026

It’s time for the full release premiere for “Like it’s 1995”, a documentary on 30 years of backpacking culture through the lens of Famous Hostels 🎬🍿🍾🎉

This is a love letter to backpacking, for anyone who loves to travel, loves hostels, and loves nostalgia! 🥰🧳🛤️

The Full Release will be available from February 17th on YouTube

https://youtu.be/nLdDfAdHltU?si=uHx044izjW_HIosG

05/12/2025

Thank you for the gezellig “Love” Room and the coat stay Rotterdam, it was great to see you all and the Christmas Lights 🎄🎅

I hope Sinterklaas comes tonight! 😍🍷🇳🇱

03/12/2025

Who is booking your beds? Are you working with OTAs, travel agencies, or is it AI bots?

ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and others could become travel agents themselves, cutting out OTAs instead of partnering with them.

Travel agencies like Expedia, Booking.com, and Trip.com risk becoming fulfillment arms of major AI chatbots with current trends.

The OTA model calls for travelers to join their loyalty programs, tap links from advertisers, and tack on extras. It’s likely that agentic AI will trigger a marketing competition between the major chatbots and OTA’s standalone agentic AI features.

Are you prepared? Who will end up booking your beds??

(This lovely room is at Latroupe Madrid)

27/11/2025

The Rise of Circular Solutions ♻️ The shift from a linear “take-make-waste” economy toward a circular one is accelerating in 2025. Startups are leading the way, driven by younger consumers who increasingly prefer renting, repairing, or reusing over buying new. 💡

Companies which rent and refurbish are highlighting a broader movement toward durability and re-circulation.

What it means for hospitality: 📌📋
Circular practices are becoming essential: furniture leasing, textile recycling, refillable amenities, product repair schemes, and partnerships for waste-to-resource systems will grow. Guests increasingly expect to see circularity, not just read about it. 🤓

Location - - a great hostel to stay in with a lot of sustainability plans in action. ✅

♻️

26/11/2025

The Guest Review Report 2025 from Customer Alliance is out now - they analysed over 1.1 million reviews! These reviews and analysis reveal the factors that most influence review scores across the key stages of the guest journey. Find what they think about check-in, breakfast, rooms, and operations. These are from verified reviews across the DACH region from hotels and give feedback into what consumers are really thinking.

What did we learn from this? What do guests want?? Communication, transparency, consistency of offer and brand, and a personal touch. And for sustainability, they wanted to see it integrated into operations in a way that made it not feel like a burden, but a contribution.

See their report online on the Customer Alliance website.

24/11/2025

📣 Despite the rumours Google has announced it is NOT planning to become an online travel agent (OTA) in the near future. What it is doing is building an ‘agent’ AI tool that can book flights, hotels, and more. 🤖 It will have partners including both large and small players in the travel market and link with them to provide a 360 experience. When they launch their AI travel assistant, it will have everything from flights to event tickets and restaurant reservations. 🎟️✈️

This means it will be part of a web that leads to a full travel experience - something no longer just a few steps and a marketing funnel. With more research on more platforms, including AI searches now using more keywords than Google searches, the customer is flooded with options for bookings, and Google will offer a one-stop-shop via and AI agent to offer a solution to all booking needs, and upsell to ones you didn’t know you needed. 💻

21/11/2025

Join a talk on what gets really feel about sustainability during their stay...
*Sustainability in Hospitality: The Green Elephant in the Room*
Event by Alliance
Tue, Nov 25, 2025, 12:00CET
https://www.linkedin.com/events/7391836238259052546/

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