A recent article on HotelMarketing.com presents information on a recent study by PhoCusWright Inc:
Magazine Article Keyword: Europe
Sweden had a record tourism summer in 2006:
According to Nutek, the Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth, overnight visits for the summer added 3.9 billion kronor to the Swedish economy, which represents a ten percent increase on the previous year.
A hostel in the UK is saved from closure:
Earby Youth Hostel has been saved from closure after Pendle Council launched a rescue package for the building.
The Scottish Youth Hostels' Association has opened up their new Edinburgh hostel:
Italy is planning a €5 per day tourist tax, with a possible exemption for youth hostels:
Italian towns will be allowed to tax tourists up to five euros ($6.30; £3.40) per day in the 2007 budget put forward by Prime Minister Romano Prodi.
Hostel staff at two hostels in Edinburgh are worried about losing their jobs:
WORKERS at two Edinburgh youth hostels fear they could be about to lose their jobs, despite an apparent promise they were to be relocated to the city's £10 million new hostel.
The Scottish Youth Hostel Association has opened the largest hostel in its history:
Scotland's most upmarket youth hostel will open its doors to the public tomorrow following the £10m conversion of a landmark building on Leith Walk.
Globetrotter Inns, based in Scotland, plans to open hostels across Europe:
More news about the closing of youth hostels in the UK:
"Business owners in Greenhead and Acomb say the villages will be "hit very hard" when their youth hostels close later this year.
Irish hostels expect business to increase this year:
"Two thirds of hoteliers across the country expect business this year to be well ahead of last year, according to the latest tourism industry barometer survey by Failte Ireland.
A recent article in The Times covers the changes happening at YHA in the UK: