The Scottish Youth Hostels' Association has opened up their new Edinburgh hostel:
Hostels recently got coverage in the Austin, Texas news because of the 20th anniversary of Austin's 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.
The Global Village Hostel in San Francisco burned yesterday afternoon. The hostel had been unoccupied since June and no one was injured.
There is an interesting story behind the opening of the first youth hostel in the United States:
The HI hostel in Austin, Texas, USA is celebrating its 20th anniversary tomorrow:
The YHA office in Michigan is closing:
The venerable American Youth Hostel office on Coolidge Highway — the only hostelling center in Michigan — is closing its doors this weekend.
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 Washington Post is running an article about hostels:
At 52, I'm no youth. But I'm hooked on hostels.
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.