How can you make your hostel excellent at encouraging community and atmosphere? Learn from the hostel community in this panel discussion, which was streamed live Tues, 17 Dec at 18:00 GMT.
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We have just completed today's panel discussion on Social Media Marketing for your hostel. Participants included:
Our next Panel Discussion will be over the topic of 'Social Media', and how hostels use it to enhance their business, marketing, and connection with guests.
At the moment it is being postponed due to scheduling conflicts with panelists. We are working on a date in the next week or two.
We continued our new feature of Virtual Online Panel Discussions with the topic "Taking on the Low Season".
We had a lot of technical issues this session, but were able to still somewhat edit the video.
Tuesday was our first Virtual Unconference Panel Discussion. The topic was “Reviews & Reputation”, and included two hostel owners from the US, one from Mexico, and one from Romania.
We are live with today's panel discussion. Go to YouTube to see the live stream.
Well well well. After 4 months of writing about best industry practices throughout Australia/ New Zealand, this wandering blogger is back at Hostel Management HQ, when not busy running Pacific Tradewinds Hostel.
Find a great hostel, and you've likely found great communal space within that hostel. Hanging out with other travelers is an integral part of hostel life, and having a great space to do it in can make or break a hostel.
Can you remember the first dorm room you ever stayed in? Mine was somewhere in Cape Town nearly seven years ago. Being students, we went for the cheapest hostel we could find, and from my fuzzy memories I think we got what we paid for.
While discussing cleaning with Gerti and Andy, the owners of lovely Old Countryhouse Backpackers, they told me about one particularly awful stay they had somewhere else. It wouldn't have been so bad in itself, except that it was filthy.