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Become a partner →Recommended through Hostelworld, Itaca Hostel in Barcelona moved from hand-set Booking.com prices to Pricepoint. In 2026 its revenue rose 22.5% on the same number of bed nights.
+22.5%: revenue in January–October 2026 vs the same months of 2025
+21.6%: average rate, from €39 to €48 a night
Same nights, more revenue: bed nights sold were level with 2025
Referred: through Hostelworld
Company: Itaca Hostel — an independent hostel in Barcelona
Challenge: Booking.com prices set by hand, and an owner who wasn't yet convinced by automated pricing
Solution: Pricepoint automated pricing, connected to FrontDesk Master
PMS: FrontDesk Master
On Pricepoint since: autumn 2025
Itaca Hostel is a dorm-and-private-room hostel in Barcelona. Its prices on Booking.com were set by hand, and like many independent hostels it had never used a revenue management system.
Pricepoint reached Itaca through Hostelworld: its area manager for Iberia and Africa met the owners, recommended Pricepoint, and the hostel got in touch. The two teams finally met in person at Hostelworld's conference in Seville in October 2025. One owner was ready to try it; the other still had doubts. They agreed to a trial.
Pricepoint connects directly to FrontDesk Master, so the hostel was live within days of granting access. The team reviewed results at 10 and 20 days, and the second review summed it up: the results continued to be very strong. It also flagged an improvement: the hostel's rooms were split into tiers that could cause pricing problems as demand shifted, so the team recommended grouping them under a single structure.
Itaca signed in November 2025.
From January to October 2026, Itaca Hostel's revenue was 22.5% higher than the same months of 2025. The hostel sold almost exactly the same number of bed nights, so nearly all of the gain came from rate: the average rate rose 21.6%, from €39.37 to €47.88.
For a Barcelona hostel, that means more revenue from the same guests, the same beds and the same work.
Itaca heads into its first full year on Pricepoint, with a simpler room structure and a full season of data behind the engine.
