Ivan A. — Founder

Author of Lean Hostels. Founder of Roitels and HostelSphere. I help hostel founders, operators, and chains build stronger businesses without losing what makes hostels worth choosing. For nearly two decades I’ve worked across the hostel industry as an operator, CEO, founder, consultant, and product strategist. Before founding Roitels and HostelSphere, I served as CEO of a hostel group in Spain, leading multiple properties, teams, and expansion under real operational pressure. Over time, that experience led me to a deeper question: why do some hostels become more desired, more defensible, and more profitable, while others become operationally correct, but weaker as a product? That question became Lean Hostels. Lean Hostels is a management method built for the hostel industry. It starts from a simple truth: a hostel does not only sell beds. It sells beds plus a social engine. That means the business must be led through both an economic engine and a social engine working together. If you optimize one while weakening the other, you may improve the short term and quietly damage the product for the future. My work focuses on helping hostels create desire, strengthen community, protect their price ceiling, reduce unhealthy dependence on discounting and channels, and grow without becoming generic. Today, that thinking also lives in the systems I build through Roitels and HostelSphere. Lean Hostels is now available for pre-order. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GT69RZD4

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Experience: 4 yrs 5 mos