The Golden Gate Council of Hostelling International USA (northern California) is celebrating its 50th year with a party in San Francisco on October 26th, 2008.
Seen via TravelPlug, the HI Galveston Texas Hostel has closed permanently because of severe hurricane damage.
A Philadelphia hostel has been temporarily shut down:
A building at 111 Ocean Street in Barnstable, Massachusetts is awaiting final approval for conversion into a hostel.
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HTML "frames" is an older technique that was often for building websites. Search engines don't like HTML frames. Google says:
Hostelworld recently announced that its travel network, MyWorld has reached its 1 millionth member since its launch in November 2006.
Former Google engineers have launched a new search engine called Cuil.com ("cool").
Cuil.com claims to index more of the Web than any other search engine:
Lonely Planet surveyed 2,000 travelers from the UK and Ireland on their most-likely travel destinations, and the USA was at the top:
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LonelyPlanet.com partners with Hostelworld.com and Expedia.com:
Lonely Planet...has joined forces with two of the world’s leading accommodation providers, Expedia and Hostelworld.com, to deliver a unique accommodation booking service.
