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Sustainability Stories: The Green Rainbow – How Eco-Pride is redefining travel in Cape Town
If you’ve ever wondered what happens when environmental sustainability, inclusive tourism, and Pride collide – meet Rayan. Traveller. Volunteer. Pride advocate. After winning Hostelworld’s ESG World Tourism Day competition, Rayan travelled to Cape Town, South Africa. Not just to explore and celebrate Pride, but to help build something new. Having previously heard Soul Fam...
Sustainability Stories: Pride, Place & Purpose – How The Cool Hostel built a queer-friendly space rooted in community
“The Cool Hostel, where you can show up exactly as you are.” Pride Month is a time to celebrate LGBTQ+ visibility, inclusivity and diversity. But in Coquimbo, Northern Chile, one hostel is building that – not just for a moment, but every single day. We met Cris Sankari, co-founder of The Cool Hostel, the...
Best Hostels for Solo Female Travellers in Australia (With Reviews)
Australia is one of the most consistently recommended destinations in the world for solo female travel, and the hostel scene backs that reputation up completely. Sydney and Melbourne alone have over 90 hostels between them on Hostelworld, with close to 100,000 combined guest reviews, and both cities have built genuinely excellent social infrastructure specifically aimed...
Best Hostels for Solo Female Travellers in Asia (With Reviews)
Asia is, for many solo female travellers, where the backpacking story really begins. Thailand's hostel infrastructure is some of the most developed in the world, Vietnam's Old Quarter hostel scenes are legendary for their social energy, and the sheer density of fellow travellers moving through the same handful of cities makes meeting people, and feeling...
Best Hostels for Solo Female Travellers in South America (With Reviews)
South America has become one of the most popular continents for solo female travel, and for good reason. Buenos Aires has the elegance of a European capital, Medellín has reinvented itself into one of the most welcoming cities for digital nomads and backpackers, and Cusco offers history, altitude, and Andean culture that rewards every traveller...
Best Hostels for Solo Female Travellers in North America (With Reviews)
North America offers some of the most rewarding solo female travel anywhere in the world. From the energy of New York City to the beach culture of Los Angeles to the colour and chaos of Mexico City, the continent has a hostel scene that's matured considerably, with properties built specifically around safety, community, and the...
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Sustainability Stories: The Green Rainbow – How Eco-Pride is redefining travel in Cape Town
If you’ve ever wondered what happens when environmental sustainability, inclusive tourism, and Pride collide – meet Rayan. Traveller. Volunteer. Pride advocate. After winning Hostelworld’s ESG World Tourism Day competition, Rayan travelled to Cape Town, South Africa. Not just to explore and celebrate Pride, but to help build something new. Having previously heard Soul Fam...
Sustainability Stories: Pride, Place & Purpose – How The Cool Hostel built a queer-friendly space rooted in community
“The Cool Hostel, where you can show up exactly as you are.” Pride Month is a time to celebrate LGBTQ+ visibility, inclusivity and diversity. But in Coquimbo, Northern Chile, one hostel is building that – not just for a moment, but every single day. We met Cris Sankari, co-founder of The Cool Hostel, the...
Sustainability Stories: “It changed the way I travel” – Volunteering in Colombia, One Year On
(L: Entrance to El Rio Hostel. R: Boat trip with our guide Gabriel and dog Suki) A year ago, you met Amy Phung, winner of Hostelworld's yearly staff travel competition, who spent several weeks travelling across Colombia - hopping from hostel to hostel, and discovering a country that surprised her at every turn. Almost a year on,...
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