Hello All,

I am planning to open a hostel in Santa Barbara. I would like to connect with Hostel owners and to be hostel owners, in the states and know more about the trade and share experiences. I am also interested in opportunities in other cities in California.

Thanks!

Hello from the Caribbean,

I'm Lindsay from the home of Trinidad Carnival, The Steelpan and Calypso Music to name a few.
I am looking to spread my wings as i have gotten all i could from my island.
As mentioned, i have 5 yrs experience in running clubs, bars and restaurants.
This involves all operations including marketing, customer service and inventory
I am fluent in english and have knowledge of basic Spanish, with hopes to improve these skills immediately.
I am looking for a job where, on my off time, i can explore the visited country.
My top picks would be Central or South America , however, i am open to any destination
I am hoping to get a paying job or at the least, receive a weekly stipend to assist with my explorations.
Apart from this, I would need free stay and at least 1 meal a day.
If you see me as a fit at your hostel, please feel free to email me at [email protected]

Warm Regards,
Lin

We are a young Spanish couple and we are looking forward to travel all over the world (especially South America, Africa and Asia) but not only visiting the most turistical places, but living and discovering new cultures, and we think the better way to do it is by working in hostels all over the world.

I've worked in B&B called "El Clandestino" in Granada (Spain) as "person for everything" (receptionist, check-in, check-out, cleaning, tourist guide...) for one year, and I speak Spanish, English, Italian, French and Catalan. She has a lot of experience working as an adults and children animation and she speaks Spanish, English, Catalan and even some Polish!

We are open to go anywhere in the world, so if you are interested in a full of energy and hard-worker couple don't hesitate to contact us. Due to our experience and languages we are a perfect tandem to your hostel. If you choose us, you won't regret!!!

[email protected]
[email protected]
:love:

In 2016 it is my goal to make this site a great resource for information about EVERYTHING hostel.

How am I doing this?

#1, by creating quality content on my blog, centred around the page www.danvineberg.com/hostels

My current series "How to Hostel" includes topics such as: a guide to your first hostel, how to make friends at hostels, and if it's necessary to book hostels in advance.

#2, by growing a youtube presence through my Hostel Questions series. The series answers viewer / reader questions about hostels, ideally in a different hostel each time, though I must admit I've done a few from home Smile

#3, by connecting with hostel staff and management, LIKE YOU! I'm more than happy to meet anyone new and talk about how I could help promote their hostel, or just share information. This site will be a great resource for me, not only professionally, but personally, as - if you can't tell already - I'm a huge fan of hostels!

#4, I started the new year (literally, January 1st) with an "Ask me anything" post on reddit about the fact that I'm a budget-traveller who has stayed in approx 100 hostels. The post hit the front page and got me a lot of attention, hundreds of thousands of views:

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/3z2pl8/i_am_a_longterm_budget_tra...

Thanks for reading! If you're interested in connecting, I can always be reached at media at thenewtravelblog dot com.

-Dan

http://thehosteljourney.com/
Check it out!
Emily

Greetings Everyone!

I am an MBA student at Babson College studying entrepreneurship and am working on a business project regarding hostels. I am wondering what the most common “pain-points,” or problems that hostel managers/owners face, and want to think about creative ways to solve them. “Lack of time” wouldn’t be specific enough, but could it be cleaning up after drunk people? Getting the wrong mix of people together in a room (early risers with partiers)? Harassment? Payment issues? Seasonality? Or something else? I am wondering what a unifying problem and solution would look like.

I am an avid traveler who has been to 20+ countries and stayed in several hostels while I was in the military (US Coast Guard). My business partner is originally from Argentina, speaks 6 languages and has lived all over the world and stayed in 100's of hostels. We are familiar with the hostelling experience from a customer perspective, but want to know more about the managerial side.

I am reading tons of articles and piecing together information, but would love a group of responses to the question of what is the most common issue is that all managers face on a regular basis.

Any input would be extremely welcome and appreciated!

Regards,

Peter

Hello everyone, I am Gunes and I am living in Izmir, Turkey. I have a plan to start a hostel with 35-40 beds in a year in Izmir. This forum is excellent for having ideas and understanding the needs for hostel. Thanks everyone

My name is Alyssa and I am hoping to manage and own my own hostel. I've had the best time of my life staying in hostels and I'm in love with travel and the travel industry. Right now I am attending Hospitality Management classes in college. Lately I've been wondering if I'm going about my dream the right way. In school I'm learning about things that are indeed important to management of tourism-based operations, but the focus is on hotels and restaurants. I've learned valuable things, but I feel like it's all common sense, and sometimes the information doesn't transfer to the unique operations of a hostel. Wouldn't I learn more from actually doing work for stay programs at various hostels? I've thought that a degree title would look good when applying to manage a hostel, but the more classes I take the more I feel like a long list of real world experience would benefit me more.

I have a year and a half of school left, and until July on my lease. I've had plans to transfer schools at the end of my lease, but I'd also love to and would be prepared to start working at hostels.

So, what do you guys think? Is a Hospitality Management degree actually beneficial in this field?
Hostel managers, how did you gain your title?

I'd love to hear any feedback! Thanks for reading. :love:

Hey, just poking my head up to say Hi!

I recently fell into being the lead person at a hostel.

We had a sweet Fall season. It was fun turning the simple things around -- keeping our 10K sq ft of space clean, being congenial and connecting with people. So, we went from having scathingly negative reviews (which we earned!) before I got here, to having heartfelt, happy good-byes at the end of weekends with a full house.

When things got eerily quiet in December, I started pouring my time into figuring out how hostels work. Being a data-driven IT guy for a few decades, I've now got a spreadsheet with bits of data and random notes from 100+ hostel websites.

[...random tangent... I'm trying to stay focused on writing this intro, but I've also got Mikheil, from Georgia (the country) on his laptop at the other kitchen table... Albert & Alexis engrossed in rapid-fire conversation, fully committed to and energized by it, never mind their 50-year age difference... this is one of the nutty moments that reminds me... oh, wait, I've got a phone call or three... and what was I about to say?]

I just need to say that I'm fully engaged in my happily-nutty hostel, wanting it to survive and thrive.

(Oh yeah, and despite the fact that it's the best kind of problem to have, I'm still a little freaked out that we've got a 40-person group arriving on a bus in about 24 hours.)

Hello, my name is Violeta I am 20 years young girl and I am from Riga, Latvia. I am Culture and tourism managment student and I would like to volunteer in hostel for summer period (01.July- 31.August) and I am looking for internsip place for my Erasmus+ programme. I have previous work experience in Riga City tour busses as a stewart (job included talking with tourists, giving tips about touristic activities going around in town and ofcourse explaining about buss tours), I have been working for a cloth shop as well, so I have good comunication skills with customers and I am very polite and patient and I have been working in restaurant as a Host (job included showing customers free tables, answering to phone calls and e-mails). For 1 year on a level of hobby I have been learning french, but this semester I will take french classes, to learn it better and more serious. As well I am fluent in russian, english and latvian. If you have any questions I will gladly answe to them (my e-mail: [email protected])
Merci de votre attention et a bientôt!
Violeta