What is Build Your Brand?
Build your brand is an initiative by Backpacker Panda to encourage aspiring entrepreneurs, small/medium scale franchisee hostel owners to take control of their business and grow their own brands.
Why say NO franchise?
From our experience of dealing with small and medium scale franchisees we learnt that small/medium business owners can earn and grow at least 25% faster as independent brands than with franchisees. Not only do you save on franchise fee and commissions, you can innovate, self-audit, and grow your OWN brand without any third party intervention.
Find out what you could earn
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How can we support you to BUILD YOUR BRAND?
Backpacker Panda started as a chain of backpacking hostels across India in 2015. We have grown and managed over 15 backpacking hostels, and now stand tall as a network of over 500 hostels across the world. Along with business intelligence, technology, a super efficient customer operations team and 5 years of experience, we now understand the industry better than anyone else.

Need help with Online Travel Aggregators (OTA)
set-up and maintenance?
We offer registration and maintenance of over 10 OTAs (Hostelworld, Booking.com, MakeMyTrip, Goibibio etc) to take the headache of technological hindrances off your hands, so you can focus on customer experience and managing your property on-ground!
Common area cleaning and setup
Shared room cleaning and setup
Private room cleaning and setup
Kitchen cleaning and setup
Washroom cleaning procedure

The association not only works like a community and supports new independent owners but also helps with driving the right audience to your hostel.
How does the Independent Backpacking Hostel Network help you?
Visible to an active database of 100,000 + backpackers
Increase in 25% occupancy
Opportunity to cross promote and sell
For Customers | For Backpacking Hostels |
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Upto 20% discount on every booking | Get access to loyal, active backpackers |
Access to quality assured hostels | Earn by selling licenses |
Partner deals and discounts | Opportunity to cross promote |
Opportunity to intern at hostels and win contests | Conversation starters for Property Managers |
To earn with Backpacker Panda License, write to us on travel@backpackerpanda.com.
Buddy is a Property Management System integrated with a Channel manager. It lets you keep a check on your inventory, staffing, expenses and revenues.
Not only does Buddy sync to over 7+ Online Travel Aggregators (OTAs), it also supports with invoicing, managing additional revenue streams and tax allocations.
To know more, reach out to us on travel@backpackerpanda.com