Hostelworld.com and Boo.com get honors at Webby Awards:
It looks like Whistler, Canada may get a new HI hostel after the 2010 Winter Olympic Games:
A new hostel is being planned for Jasper, Canada:
Now that the Canadian Hostelling Association has made the administrative modifications needed to finance construction, Jasper could see a new hostel in its townsite by 2013.
The Gateway Hostel in Brisbane is getting demolished and rebuilt as a 5-story, 372-bed hostel:
The Transit Centre Backpackers Hostel in Hobart, Tasmania will close next week:
A youth hostel in Chester (UK) will be closing:
The Irish Times also reports that online hostel booking company Web Reservations International (WRI) is examining the possibility of a trade sale of the firm as an alternative to a flotation of the business in turbulent stock markets.
A local community is trying to save a hostel in Scotland from being closed:
Hostels in New Zealand disagree about the use of the word "best hostels".
The Advertising Standards Authority has upheld a complaint against a backpackers group that said its establishments were "New Zealand's best hostels".