About Baybayin Hub

All across the globe, the hospitality and tourism industry is one of the business lines that’s hit the hardest and we have witnessed the closing of hotels, resorts and all the hospitality establishments. Like most people, no one thought this pandemic will last this long and may last longer. Sadly, many businesses continue to struggle and will eventually close.

In order for our hostel to survive, we pivoted and converted our hostel into a COWORKING and CO-LIVING space.

“For us to succeed in adapting to the ‘new normal’, we all MUST adjust to the needs and demands of our new customers, the DIGITAL NOMADS and REMOTE WORKERS.”

We came to realize that the 16 years of working remotely prepared us and gave us the edge to foresee the needs of digital nomads and remote workers. It came naturally for us to create and design spaces that specifically caters to their needs as a remote worker and what could be done to further improve their stay by integrating human factors in their technological needs.

Our newly converted hostel to a co-living and coworking space caught the attention of a friend. She introduced me to an associate who needed help with his resort via Zoom. We gave them a brief idea of what we did and he believed in the vision. We soon found ourselves driving to the resort. We duplicated and tweaked what we implemented in our hostel to a 3-hectare eco-resort and trained the owner and the staff.

A few weeks later, we launched the new business model for his resort and booked long-term guests who are remote workers. We were overwhelmed and surprised at the success of his newly converted vacation resort to a coworking and co-living eco-resort.

After the success of converting our hostel and the eco-resort to a co-living and co-working space; we found that many establishments in the hospitality industry were interested and seeking help in how we turned this potential tragedy of losing my business to a solution that could really help them. We started receiving calls from different business owners requesting for our services to convert their business to a co-living and coworking establishment.

We started to study how we can assist establishments in the hospitality industry and help them convert their businesses to accommodate the needs of the digital nomads and remote workers.

Each hospitality business is unique and made up differently so we developed a plan to convert spaces for co-living and coworking hub and convinced the business owners to create a program that would allow guests for medium to long-term stay rates with access to their kitchen / discounts on their restaurants and bar. In addition, we convinced them to convert their private function rooms to a co-working or common space.

An overwhelming request for this service took us by surprise and we are lucky enough to find that there are a lot of local digital nomads and remote workers in the Philippines who are looking for this kind of accommodation. 

Fast forward to post-pandemic times, we are now expanding across Southeast Asia. We are deeply thankful for this journey and owe our growth to the incredible support of our community. Our expansion in Asia is largely driven by referrals from our customers, community members, and partners, and for that, we are truly grateful. This experience and opportunity mean the world to us.