The online hostel booking platform warned investors that earnings for 2019 are expected to be worse than the previous year due to higher costs and the "highly competitive" market.

Shares in online accommodation booking company Hostelworld plummeted by as much as 11% on a near halving of first half profits and its warning of little or no growth in bookings for the year as a whole.

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