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13 years
Well the original article is already a bit exaggerated as the baby boom of hostels already happened in 2005-2006 and the market is already in a supercharged bubble. What actually happens is that some property owners rent out their own rooms during summer but I wouldn't really call'em hostels, especially not if we are talking about Hostelmanagement.com's hostel definition. This trend is called 'Zimmer Frei', aka 'Rooms for rent'. Started in the 60-70's, when there wasn't enough hotels to cater all tourists in Hungary (which was mostly German). ;)
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