15 years
Good point. The dude I have in mind has never stayed in hostels (and no common sense either :D).
USA guy who will open a hostel in Colombia 2009
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Hi everyone!
I'm happy to have found this site as it appears to be full of useful resources. Anyway, just wanted to introduce myself because I'll probably be on the site a lot.
I'm 23, from Boston, USA; a year out of college where I obtained my hotel management degree, just resigned from my job with a destination management company which I started a month prior to my graduation. I absolutely love traveling and have no desire to start working again for "the man". I'm traveling to Colombia in 1 week mostly just for fun but also to do some on the ground research into starting up my hostel.
Cheers!
below is a link to a previous thread about a question I have related to hotel/tourism statistics...
http://www.hostelmanagement.com/forums/tourismhotel-statistics.html
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15 years
From the guest's point of view, the biggest difference between a hotel and a hostel is...
Hotel guests want privacy. Hostel guests want sociability.
That's not totally true, but if you want sociability in a hotel you'll have difficulty finding it. In hostels it is becoming accepted that room privacy is available if you want to pay a bit extra, but the rest of the hostel should be focussed on the communal, and if you want full privacy, you shouldn't expect it in a hostel.
Hotels put TVs in all bedrooms. Hotels have separate little tables in their dining room, and nobody ever sits down with someone they have not travelled with. Hotel staff are friendly and helpful behind the desk, but never mix with the guests. If policies of this sort are applied to hostels, they lose one of their most valuable aspects -- sociability. The English YHA makes some of these mistakes, which helps to make their hostels less attractive as hostels than they should be.
15 years
Hotel staff are friendly and helpful behind the desk, but never mix with the guests.
I worked at 3 hotels before I worked at hostels, and at all the hotels we were forbidden from mingling with or having non-business relationships of any kind the guests. (A rule often ignored by the staff, but it was the official policy...)
15 years
I worked at 3 hotels before I worked at hostels, and at all the hotels we were forbidden from mingling with or having non-business relationships of any kind the guests. (A rule often ignored by the staff, but it was the official policy...)
when i was working at the HI in banff, we were told we werent allowed to have 'relations' with guests - risk of sexual harrassment lawsuits etc. totally ignored by everyone of course (why work in a hostel if you cant shag the guests?! :p) but yeah, that was the official policy.
15 years
...we were told we werent allowed to have 'relations' with guests - risk of sexual harrassment lawsuits etc...
Is than an HI policy, or just for the one hostel?
15 years
Is than an HI policy, or just for the one hostel?
I think it was the policy of HI-Pacific Mountain Region (western canada basically) but im not 100% on that.
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