2006 Golden Spider Award
 Hostelworld.com received the best Travel, Tourism & Hospitality Website Award at the 2006 Golden Spiders Internet Awards ceremony held in Dublin, Ireland. The award recognised the excellent content and technology employed by the site which has become a global market leader in online reservations in the budget accommodation sector.
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2006 Webby Award Nominees
 Hostelworld.com has been nominated in the Travel Category of the 10th Annual Webby Awards. This is the second year running in which the Hostelworld.com site has been shortlisted in the travel category of the most prestigious internet awards.
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2006 Net Visionary Award
 Hostelworld.com CEO & Founder, Ray Nolan has been selected by the Board of Directors of the Irish Internet Association as the Overall Net Visionary for 2006. Commending Hostelworld.com on the achievement, IIA Chairman, Colm Lyon said the company has constantly raised the bar in terms of competing in the global internet market, remained highly innovative in their approach and moved quickly to capture the opportunities.
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2005 Webby Worthy Award Winners
 Hostelworld.com has been selected as Webby Worthy as part of The Ninth Annual Webby Awards. Hailed as the "Online Oscars" by Time Magazine, The Webby Awards is the leading international honours for web sites. Webby Worthy selections are chosen by the International Academy of the Digital Arts and Sciences, a 500+ member body of leading web experts, business figures, luminaries, visionaries and creative celebrities that includes musician David Bowie, Virgin Group founder Richard Branson, and "Simpsons" creator Matt Groening.
"The Webby Awards honours the outstanding web sites that are setting the standards for the internet," said Tiffany Shlain, creative director and founder of The Webby Awards. “Hostelworld.com’s Webby Worthy selection is a testament to the skill, ingenuity, and vision of its creators."
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Winners - 2003 Ernst & Young, Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year
 Hostelworld.com founders Tom Kennedy and Ray Nolan have been awarded the Ernst & Young Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year award.
Now in its sixth year, the Awards Programme aims to identify, salute and support the businessmen and women whose vision, drive and dedication have singled Ireland out as having one of the highest levels of entrepreneurial activity in the world.
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Winners - 2003 World Summit Awards
 Hostelworld.com has been voted one of the best sites in the E-business category in the World Summit Awards held in Dubai in October 2003. The awards recognise the best content producers on the web and Hostelworld.com has been selected for this award from over 800 websites worldwide.
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2002 Spider Award Winners
Hostelworld.com received the best e-Commerce Award and the overall ESAT BT Award at the 2002 Golden Spiders Internet Awards ceremony held in Dublin, Ireland.
 Hostelworld.com was chosen for each award from over 1800 entries in twenty different categories. The judges, comprised of experts in online and technology businesses, praised Hostelworld for its combination of innovation, clarity, spectacular growth and its profitable business model.
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Second Place - Deloitte Technology Fast 50
 Second Place - Deloitte Technology Fast 50
Hostelworld's parent company Web Reservations International (WRI) was placed second in the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Programme. This programme recognises and ranks the fastest growing technology companies in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland over the period 2000 to 2002. The winners show how to survive and thrive in today's market.
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