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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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.
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.
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.
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:
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!
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.
Following an established tradition, we will be holding an informal HostelManagement.com Meet-Up in Killarney, Ireland at the end of January 2017!
A girl checks in with an older man while averting eye contact with the receptionist. A guest at the hostel bar doesn’t seem to know basic information like what city she’s in. One guy seems to answer for another when he’s asked questions.
There are probably as many reasons for travel as there are excuses as to why you can’t go to your in-laws for dinner next weekend. The same goes for reasons why some of us devote our life’s work to encouraging and facilitating travel.