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Online Panel Discussion: Hostels in Non-Tourist Areas

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What happens when you want to open a hostel in your perfect location, but that happens to be a place that isn't very well known? What are some of the challenges you face operating a hostel in a non-tourist area? More importantly, how do you get over these issues?

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Courtney Loechl
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MAX Hostels: Where Quality Meets Consistency

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Hostels are a lot of things, but overwhelming should not be one of them. Unfortunately this isn’t always the case, whether you are the traveler or the host. 
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Courtney Loechl
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Opinions Wanted: Small Focus Group for Hostel Management's New Booking Engine

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Hostel Management wants your opinion
If you are a hostel owner or manager who is frustrated by the solutions currently available to accept direct bookings on your website, we’d like to hear from you.  
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Courtney Loechl
Direct Bookings, Booking Engines (OTA's), PMS

Hostel Management Unconference in Wroclaw, Poland

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Join us for the Hostel Management Unconference in Wroclaw, Poland!  Take advantage of this opportunity to network with fellow hostel owners and managers and discuss the issues that matter the most to all of us.  Share your own knowledge and learn from the experience of others.
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Hostel Management Unconference in Nazareth

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Join us for the Hostel Management Unconference in Nazareth, Israel!  We’ll spend two and a half days networking with other hostel operators and sharing our collective knowledge and experiences about all the issues that are most interesting for the group.  
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Rucksack Brian
Unconferences

HostelSkills Conference #3, Ljubljana, March 2017

Announcements
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The third installment of the HostelSkills Conference is rapidly approaching.  The next event will take place in Ljubljana, Slovenia from 30-31 March, 2017!

From the HostelSkills website:

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Rucksack Brian
hostel conference

Panel Discussion: Crowd Funding for Hostels

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This discussion was streamed live Friday, March 3rd at 07:00 UTC, and is recorded below. It was full of tons of useful info- huge thank you to our panelists!

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Courtney Loechl

New Year, New Normal: How Your Hostel Changed Without You Noticing

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There is the old way of doing things, and the new way of doing things.

Another year has flown by. For many hostels in the northern hemisphere, January represents the low season with colder temperatures, fewer guests, and the chance to relax a little.

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Courtney Loechl
Manager Responsibilities, Hostel Policies, Guest Impressions

HostelManagement.com Meet-Up - Killarney, Ireland, January 2017

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Black Sheep Hostel Sitting Room

Following an established tradition, we will be holding an informal HostelManagement.com Meet-Up in Killarney, Ireland at the end of January 2017!

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Preventing Human Trafficking: The Role of the Hospitality Industry

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Courtney Loechl
Hostel Security

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