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When Hostelling International was founded, representatives agreed on the introduction of an international membership card and established minimum standards for hostels. Memberships are still required today and can be purchased either online, at a hostel, or at a National Youth Hostel Association office or membership-selling outlet. [10]
Hostelling International USA (HI USA), also known as American Youth Hostels, Inc. (AYH), is a nonprofit organization that operates youth hostels and runs programs around those hostels. It is the official United States affiliate of Hostelling International (HI), also known as the International Youth Hostel Federation.
The Plan for constructing youth hostels by YHAI was taken up and the first Youth Hostel built with its own resources on a donated piece of land was a small 35-bed youth hostel at Jagjit Nagar near Kasauli. An international camp of volunteers helped to construct its foundation. Gopalpur-on-Sea, Ganjam, Odisha was the next one built by YHAI in 1961.
The Youth Hostels Association (England & Wales) is a charitable organisation, registered with the Charity Commission, providing youth hostel accommodation in England and Wales. It is a member of the Hostelling International federation.
For the history of Youth Hostelling as a movement distinct from YHA Ltd see Origins of youth hostelling. Youth hostels were established in Australia long before and independent of the YHA organisation. The earliest youth hostels were established in the 1920s and, in 1933, Joan Anderson opened a youth hostel called The Hermitage at Narbethong ...
Pages in category "Hostelling International member associations" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. ... Youth Hostel Association of New ...
The name of the association changed to Hostelling International Northern Ireland in the 1990s. It runs three Hostels and one affiliated Hostel. [ 3 ] The hostels are in Belfast , Bushmills and Whitepark Bay (near Ballycastle ) and the newly refurbished affiliated hostel is situated in Armagh .
An Óige was formed as a membership-based organisation and at its peak had some 15,000 members and ran 55 hostels. [2] It is now a member of Hostelling International. Around the year 1990, the organisation bought the former convent school and orphanage complex at 60-61 Mountjoy Street, built circa 1865, and remodelled it for use as a hostel. [3]