Alternatives and competitors
Sites like hostelworld.com
The 20 closest hostel booking alternatives to hostelworld.com, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 19 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to hostelworld.com? The closest matches are Klook, MakeMyTrip and Tripadvisor. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.
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01 · Entity
About hostelworld.com
hostelworld.com
Hostels Worldwide - Online Bookings, Ratings and Reviews
Online confirmed bookings for backpacker hostels around the world. City guides, sightseeing, entertainment and backpacking information for hostels and backpacker tours around the world.
Wikidata: hostel booking website
Summary by Claude
Online booking service for hostels worldwide, with guest reviews, traveller profiles, in-app chat with other guests in the same hostel or city, and listings of local events.
- Who it’s for
- Backpackers and budget travellers
- Business model
- Booking commissions
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to hostelworld.com’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
03 · Nearest neighbours
Alternatives to hostelworld.com
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to hostelworld.com, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
klook.com
website where tourists can book activities
Very close cos 0.934 - 02
Indian online travel company
Very close cos 0.930 - 03
tripadvisor.com
American travel website company
Very close cos 0.930 - 04
Airbnb: Vacation Rentals, Cabins, Beach Houses, Unique Homes & Experiences
Get an Airbnb for every kind of trip → 8 million vacation rentals → 2 million Guest Favorites → 220+ countries and regions worldwide
Very close cos 0.924 - 05
website and mobile apps for booking accommodation
Very close cos 0.925 - 06
Online travel platform for booking hotels, vacation rentals, and other accommodation worldwide
Very close cos 0.923 - 07
Trip.com Official Site | Travel Deals and Promotions
Choose from over 1.2 million hotels in more than 200 countries, 30 million real guest reviews. Book flights to over 5,000 destinations worldwide. 24/7 Customer Service.
Very close cos 0.924 - 08 Very close cos 0.922
- 09
رزرو هتل و هتل آپارتمان آنلاین با بهترین قیمت تا 91% تخفیف
رزرو هتل و هتل آپارتمان داخل و خارج کشور تا 91% تخفیف ویژه و بهترین قیمت با پشتیبانی 24ساعته
- Google Analytics
- Google Search Console
- Google Tag Manager
- Angular
- AngularJS
- Google Ads conversion tracking
Very close cos 0.918 - 10
viator.com
online travel marketplace
Very close cos 0.919 - 11
المطار | حجز طيران وفنادق بأفضل الأسعار
إحجز أفضل الرحلات والفنادق بافضل الاسعار داخل السعودية وخارجها مع موقع وتطبيق المطار.
Very close cos 0.917 - 12
Priceline.com - The Best Deals on Hotels, Flights and Rental Cars.
Deep Discounts on Hotels, Flights and Rental Cars. Get Exclusive Savings with Priceline.com.
Very close cos 0.915 - 13
宿・ホテル予約 - 旅行ならじゃらんnet
宿・ホテル予約ならじゃらんnet。当日予約や今だけのじゃらん限定プランも。航空券や新幹線と宿泊のセットでさらにお得に。リッチな温泉旅館から便利なビジネスホテルまで目的に合わせて簡単検索。豊富な観光情報と口コミであなたの旅行をサポートします。
Very close cos 0.908 - 14
GetYourGuide – Error
website where tourists can book activities
Very close cos 0.909 - 15
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去哪儿Qunar.com提供机票,飞机票,特价机票,打折机票的查询预订；99元春秋航空特惠折扣机票，百元南航、海航惊喜特价机票任您挑选,国航、深航1折特价机票和折扣机票一网打尽，更多打折机票尽在Qunar.com。实时提供上百家旅游预订网站机票报价和航空公司直销机票价格，为您找到最实惠的飞机票信息,是你查询特价机票和机票预订的最佳途径。
Very close cos 0.909 - 16
Cheap Car Rental, Price Match Guarantee - Rentalcars.com
Find the best rental prices on luxury, economy, and family rental cars with FREE amendments in over 60,000 locations worldwide, reserve online today!
Very close cos 0.906 - 17
Traveloka | Flights, Hotels & Attractions
Book cheap flights, hotels, and activities with Traveloka. Discover global travel deals and plan your perfect trip • Trusted by millions worldwide • One place for all your needs • Flexible booking options • Secure & convenient payment
Very close cos 0.908 - 18
Bot or Not?
American vacation rental online marketplace
Very close cos 0.904 - 19
Hilton Page Reference Code
American multinational hospitality company
Very close cos 0.902 - 20
online travel agency
Very close cos 0.902
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to hostelworld.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones hostelworld.com uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What hostelworld.com is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- Fonts
- Google Fonts page source: fonts.gstatic.com
- Analytics
- Google Analytics page source: googletagmanager.com/gtag/js
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- Marketing automation
- Mailchimp TXT v=spf1 mx a:smtp.europe.secureserver.net include:spfip.hostelworld.co…
- Live chat & support
- Zendesk TXT v=spf1 mx a:smtp.europe.secureserver.net include:spfip.hostelworld.co…
- Cookie consent
- TrustArc page source: consent.trustarc.com
- Payments
- Stripe TXT stripe-verification=9585FC174696967538079CA203F3E050AFFC0464A0629B03F…
- Monitoring
- Sentry page source: .ingest.sentry.io
- Hosting
- Google Cloud header via: 1.1 google
- Email hosting
- Microsoft 365 MX hostelworld-com.mail.protection.outlook.com
- DNS hosting
- Google Cloud DNS NS ns-cloud-d3.googledomains.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Adobe TXT adobe-idp-site-verification=5dab5625d706ed0e5d8be21c94903205cd98c400b…
- Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=22mY8OubCHWWu4FA
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=zv7MciMcLbTHBrrKxfdtXxvMqEHTjmXBWvZ1eJJ…
- Bing Webmaster Tools meta msvalidate.01: B062587789B141D9BF3FED9B67A6B3F6
- GlobalSign TXT _globalsign-domain-verification=fmzrmHurD6JP2yQBaeviIxwhbsuJ1rc-z0IUv…
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=_fW2EYm99J9NaKtzGGH8gDIQt-R0cmJAHo_PSwTuDYI
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what hostelworld.com adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 18/20
- Microsoft 365 15/20
- Atlassian 13/20
- Apple Business 12/20
- OpenAI · not on hostelworld.com 9/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on hostelworld.com 9/20
- Google Workspace · not on hostelworld.com 8/20
- Miro · not on hostelworld.com 8/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on hostelworld.com 7/20
- DocuSign · not on hostelworld.com 7/20
- GlobalSign 7/20
- Adobe 7/20
- Salesforce · not on hostelworld.com 6/20
- Zendesk 6/20
- Cloudflare · not on hostelworld.com 5/20
- NS1 · not on hostelworld.com 5/20