It looks like Whistler, Canada may get a new HI hostel after the 2010 Winter Olympic Games:
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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.
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The Gateway Hostel in Brisbane is getting demolished and rebuilt as a 5-story, 372-bed hostel:
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The Transit Centre Backpackers Hostel in Hobart, Tasmania will close next week:
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A youth hostel in Chester (UK) will be closing:
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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.
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A local community is trying to save a hostel in Scotland from being closed:
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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".
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WRI recently had some changes including a Feargal Mooney becoming chief executive. An Irish newspaper covered the speculation of a stock market floatation:
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