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Mei Ho House (Chinese: 美荷樓), formerly part of Shek Kip Mei Estate, Hong Kong, is the last remaining example of a "Mark I" building in a single-block configuration.. While the other buildings of the estate dating from the 1950s have been demolished, being replaced by new ones, Mei Ho House was chosen to be preserved and was reopened in 2013 as a youth hostel and heritage mus
Mei Ho House, Shek Kip Mei Estate was built in 1950s, it is one of the Mark Blocks that was built in resettlement areas, it was chosen to be preserved and was reopened as a youth hostel and heritage museum Tin Yiu Estate, Tin Shui Wai was built in 1990s, it is one of the public housing estate that was developed by Hong Kong Housing Authority.
Mei Ho House (Block 41 of Shek Kip Mei Estate): One of the first ever blocks. It has been preserved. It is now a youth hostel. Blocks 10 & 11 of Shek Lei Estate: Currently used as interim housing. Both blocks will be demolished in December 2022. It would be completed by 2028 and 2,800 new units would be built. [2] The school will be rebuilt by ...
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.
Richard Schirrmann, a German schoolteacher, opened the first youth hostel on 1 June 1912 in Altena Castle, in northwest Germany, with the goal of providing affordable accommodation to youth travelling the country. [2] More hostels were opened in Germany throughout the 1910s, and Schirrmann founded the German Youth Hostel Association in 1919. [3]
By 1940, there were "various enterprises adopting the name youth hostels for their accommodation." [8] In 1940, the Government of New South Wales National Fitness Council established a Youth Hostel Planning Committee and subsequently operated youth hostels which were made available to the YHA NSW organisation after it was formed in 1942. [8]
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.
Following the launch of youth hostel associations in several European countries between 1930 and 1932, the idea spread across the Atlantic Ocean. Canada was slightly ahead of the United States, and the Canadian Youth Hostels Association was founded in 1933 [1] (the American Youth Hostels Inc was not formed until 1934 [2]).