Press Releases

• Sustainability "fixed core value" of corporate strategy 
• Employees and human rights, climate protection, purchasing and supply chains 
• First net-zero hostel chain in Europe in 2025 
• Current carbon footprint at 3.73 kg per overnight stay      
• Annual sustainability reports from the Berlin hostel chain with immediate effect 
• With just 10 cents: guests can now offset their stay

• Berlin based budget chain starts with new services and offers in the summer   
• From event managers to free bedding in shared rooms  
• Stay four days, save 25 percent: Family discount on bookings until August 31.
• Also: a&o guests can make a voluntary contribution to climate protection starting in July

• 121 rooms and 470 beds in former city office building 
• Core renovation underway, extensive energy-saving measures planned
• Historic city center within easy walking distance 
• "Sustainable expansion takes off responsibly"

• a&o pushes sustainability commitment
• a&o first net zero hostel chain in Europe 2025
• New target: less than 2.5 kilograms per overnight stay
• Guests can voluntarily compensate from June onwards
• "Pervasive sustainability" as corporate culture

• Having worked for a&o Hostels for more than 20 years, Loos has taken on multiple roles, rising from a General Manager position to COO
• Key focuses: affordable product with maximum quality
• Recruitment and employee development - key to successful expansion
• 600 new employees hired across the brand

- Berlin budget group takes up Unesco education campaign

- Comic strips, stickers and wheels of knowledge  

- Further measures and roll-out planned at all a&o locations

- Close cooperation with school trip organizers

- Class trips on the topic of sustainable education planned

• a&o achieves second-highest possible ranking in sustainability
• International rating agency Fitch comprehensively analyzes ESG components
• Oliver Winter: "This is a significant step in our Net Zero path for 2025"

• Experienced a growth of over 100 million Euros compared to 2021    
• Welcomed over 2,250,000 school class and group overnight stays    
• Digitalisation, certifications and sustainability also key focuses for 2023