Hostelworld.com wins a Webby Award

It’s official – Hostelworld’s videos are the best on the net! The global web community has voted Hostelworld.com’s city video guides as the “Best Travel & Adventure Video” of the year in the Webby People’s Voice Awards. Hostelworld.com was the only winner based in Ireland to win a prestigious Webby Award.

Hailed as the “internet’s highest honour” by the New York Times, the Webby Awards are the leading international awards honouring excellence on the internet. This year almost 10,000 entries were submitted from over 60 countries around the world, and over 500,000 votes were cast in the People’s Voice Awards, the biggest number of votes ever cast.

Filmed and presented by Hostelworld.com’s Colm Hanratty, the website’s winning city video guides are part of a series entitled “10 things you need to know about….”, providing travellers with top tips for the world’s top cities.

“We’re absolutely thrilled to be honoured with a Webby Award” Hostelworld.com’s CEO Feargal Mooney said. “It’s a fantastic achievement and this prestigious award is recognition of the quality of our travel videos and tireless efforts of our talented Editor, Colm Hanratty.

The award is also testament to the work we put into ensuring that our customers have the very best experience on Hostelworld.com and we are consistently working hard to ensure we provide them with the most up to date content, widest choice of properties along with the best possible service. We’re particularly proud that this is a People’s Voice Award. It is fitting that we received an award in the People’s Voice category as our videos are created for the benefit of our users.”

"The Webby Awards honours the very best of the Internet," said David-Michel Davies, executive director of The Webby Awards. “Hostelworld.com’s win is a testament to the skill, ingenuity, and vision of its creators."

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