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Top 25 Hostel chains worldwide
RevenueBase identified 1,614 hostel chains worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 44,512 professional contacts across them, including 3,853 with verified work emails. Spain is the largest market and Barcelona the largest hub.
This list covers hostel chains worldwide, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 20, 2026. Country and city lists for hostel chains follow the table.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest hostel chains worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5,246 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Next time, be there.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 5,088 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Days Inn by Wyndham is a leading performer in economy hospitality, and helps guests make the most of their trip with free breakfast, upbeat service, and a keen focus on the little…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 4,740 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “In September 1974, our first hotel opened its doors, marking the beginning of an incredible journey in hospitality.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 4,526 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Comfort® brand family, including Comfort Inn®, Comfort Inn & Suites®, and Comfort Suites®, features a modern look and amenities designed to help you feel refreshed and ready…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 3,618 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Our Company: In 1985, Travelodge became the UK's first budget hotel brand when it opened its first hotel at Barton-under-Needwood.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 1,698 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Catalonia Hotels & Resorts es una cadena hotelera de carácter familiar fundada a principios de los años ochenta por los hermanos Vallet.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 1,101 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “After many wonderful years at Club Med (co-founded by the Trigano family), in 2008, Serge Trigano launched Mama Shelter in partnership with his sons Jérémie and Benjamin.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 713 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Princess Hotels & Resorts es una cadena hotelera especializada en hoteles vacacionales y urbanos situados en destinaciones turísticas de primer orden, que desde sus inicios, goza…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 699 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Spirited stays in your favorite college towns.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 526 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Welcome to MEININGER Hotels where we're shaking up the world of hospitality.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 434 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Founded in by Oliver Winter, a&o Hostels is Europe’s largest independent hostel chain with over 40 locations across 28 cities in 11 countries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 427 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The Hosteller is India’s largest self-operated backpacker hostel chain with 65+ hostels across the country, from Goa’s beaches to Leh’s mountains.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 411 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Hostelworld is the world's leading Social Travel platform - a social network-powered OTA on a mission to help travellers find their people and create unforgettable moments…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 370 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Voted by Fast Company as one of the top 50 Most Innovative Global Companies, Generator provides unique, experience and design-led accommodation options located in 16 destinations…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 326 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Ven a los hoteles donde bien estar.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 297 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “India's Leading Youth Travel Hostel Brand || 30+ Destinations & Counting ||#goMOREbeMORE” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 291 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We believe the best journeys are the ones shared.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 278 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “You can find our 21 hostels in the most beautiful parts of the Netherlands.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 244 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Hace más de 20 años decidimos ser algo más que solo un lugar para dormir 🧡.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 237 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Forenom.#StayEasy We make your stay easy, so you can feel at home.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 234 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Oravel Stays Private Ltd is a company based out of 1st & 2nd Floors,130/2, Masjid Moth,|South Ex - 2, New Delhi, India.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 201 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Bristol Hotels & Resorts chain was born in 1994, when it incorporated the management of the Bristol Metropolitan Flat, in Curitiba (PR).” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 190 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “We're proud to operate the St Christopher's Inns hostel chain, Belushi's bars and a number of other well known brands and services across Europe including The Flying Pigs…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 186 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We speak different languages, but we're all in this together.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 179 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “O HOTEL 10 é a escolha perfeita para os viajantes!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: hostel chains. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names hostel chains.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of hostel chains, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name hostel chains. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Hostel chains worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 20, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency is reported on each country list linked below.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among hostel chains, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- Coverage
- Every country. Country and city lists for hostel chains are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “hostel chains”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names hostel chains), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among hostel chains, and records with no verified work email.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 3,853 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 20, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Hostel chains by location
8 lists · largest firstEvery Hostel chains list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
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Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names hostel chains, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many hostel chains are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 1,614 hostel chains worldwide as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
W Hotels, headquartered in Worldwide, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most hostel chains?
Spain leads with 161 companies, followed by India (151) and the United States (122). Every hostel chains list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most hostel chains?
Barcelona leads with 45 headquartered companies, followed by London (34) and Madrid (27).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 3,853 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 1,614 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 20, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.