Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Until 2005 it was a requirement to be either a member of YHA or a member of an Hostelling International-affiliated association before staying at a hostel. YHA relaxed this rule, partly in a desire to make hostels more accessible to all and partly on advice from the Charity Commission that the charitable status of the association was at risk if ...
This article is intended to list all youth hostels operated by the Youth Hostels Association (England & Wales) (YHA), either presently or formerly, and also independent hostels. The list is split into sections: hostels currently operated by YHA, independent hostels, and others, where others include former hostels previously operated by, or as ...
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.
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.
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 ...
YHA Australia; Youth Hostels Association (England & Wales) Scottish Youth Hostels Association; Youth Hostels Association of India; Youth Hostel Association of New Zealand; Hostelling International, an international federation of national youth hostel associations
The organisation was founded in 1931 as the Scottish Youth Hostels Association (SYHA).. The first youth hostel in Scotland was a converted row of four cottages in Broadmeadows and opened on 2 May 1931.
In 1947, YHA Victoria and YHA NSW and supporters from other states formed the Australian YHA as a federated body to co-ordinate the state-based YHA organisations and allow the YHA organisation in Australia to be represented in the International Youth Hostelling Federation (now Hostelling International). The Australian YHA could only make ...