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".
WRI recently had some changes including a Feargal Mooney becoming chief executive. An Irish newspaper covered the speculation of a stock market floatation:
WRI has a new CEO: Feargal Mooney, 14 Feb 2008:
The 7th European Hostel Meeting is coming soon in Barcelona: