Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Hostelling International (HI) is a non-governmental, not-for-profit organisation working with UNESCO and the World Tourism Organisation UNWTO. Formerly known as the International Youth Hostel Federation, Hostelling International has 60 member associations operating over 2,650 hostels around the world.
Both hostel overnights and membership grew throughout the decade. The growth continued in hostel overnights throughout the 1990s. IYHF positioned the international movement for growth in the mid 1990s with the adoption of a common name and logo, and new quality standards for its more than 4,500 hostels.
This page was last edited on 24 January 2019, at 17:03 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.
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 .
The first youth hostel in Scotland was a converted row of four cottages in Broadmeadows and opened on 2 May 1931. [4] In 1938, there were more than 60 hostels and membership was approaching 20,000. [5] At its peak, the SYHA had 99 hostels; by 1995 this had reduced to 85. [6] In 2013, around 60% of guests came from outwith Scotland. [1]
For example, Kayak’s trip calculator estimates that driving from Charlotte, North Carolina, to Richmond, Virginia, costs about $90 for two people, compared to $741 for flights. Closer ...
These Hostels clearly didn’t compare to today’s standards. Often, they were no more than straw beds in “makeshift shelters” located, for instance, in village schools that were closed for the holidays. Today, the German Youth Hostel Association now operates approximately 438 modern hostels. Hitler Youth in Berlin's Lustgarten on 19 ...
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]). The Ottawa hostel is located in a former jail. Canada's (and North America's) first hostel was opened in 1933 at Bragg Creek near Calgary, Alberta, by Mary Belle ...