Hostelworld Regulatory News (HSW)

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18 November 2025

Hostelworld Group plc

Extension of TERM OF Share REPURCHASE Programme

On 19 June 2025, Hostelworld Group plc ("Hostelworld" or the "Company") announced a share buyback programme ("Buyback Programme") of up to £5 million, which was due to complete on 31 December 2025 (unless the maximum consideration amount was reached earlier). The Company now confirms that the duration of the Buyback Programme has been extended to the date preceding the Company's 2026 Annual General Meeting (expected to be held in May 2026), unless completed or terminated earlier. The Buyback Programme will continue to be carried out in accordance with the Company's general authority to repurchase ordinary shares ("Shares") granted at its Annual General Meeting held on 7 May 2025.

As of 17 November 2025, the Buyback Programme had resulted in the repurchase in aggregate of 2,584,783 of the Company's Shares for a total consideration of approximately £3.2 million. All of the repurchased Shares were cancelled.

As at the close of business on 17 November 2025, the Company's total issued share capital consisted of 124,692,540 Shares. The Company does not hold any Shares in treasury and, therefore, the total number of Shares carrying voting rights in the Company is 124,692,540. 

All other terms of the Buyback Programme, as set out in the announcement on 19 June 2025, remain unchanged.

For further information, contact:

Hostelworld Group plc Corporate@hostelworld.com

Gary Morrison, Chief Executive Officer

Caroline Sherry, Chief Financial Officer

Sodali (Financial PR adviser) hostelworld@sodali.com

Eavan Gannon/Oliver Banks

Tel: +44 (0) 20 7250 1446

About Hostelworld Group

Hostelworld Group PLC is a ground-breaking social network powered Online Travel Agent ("OTA") focused on the hostelling category, with a clear mission to help travellers find people to hang out with. Our mission statement is founded on the insight that most travellers go hostelling to meet other people, which we facilitate through a series of social features on our platform that connect our travellers in hostels and cities based on their booking data. The strategy has been extraordinarily successful, generating significant word of mouth recommendations from our customers and strong endorsements from our hostel partners.

Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Ireland, Hostelworld is a well-known trusted brand with almost 260 employees, hostel partners in over 180 countries, and a long-standing commitment to building a better world. To that end, our focus over the last few years has been on improving the sustainability of the hostelling industry. In particular, over the last two years we have commissioned independent research to validate the category's sustainability credentials and recently introduced a hostel specific sustainability framework which encourages our hostel partners to move to even more sustainable operations and also provides the data points for our customers to make more informed decisions about where they stay. In addition, our customers are now able to offset their trip's carbon emissions should they wish to do so, and we have maintained our 'Taking Climate Action' label awarded by South Pole.