"If we offer them an ecological one, what they learn there can make life better for the entire species." CONTACT:
Hostelling International USA, (301)495-1240, www.hiusa.org; The Minneapolis EcoHostel at Ecopolitan, (612)870-2974, www.ecopolitan.com.
Its 1996 guide, Hostelling U.S.A., is available free at any HI-AYH hostel or by sending $3 to Hostelling International, 733 15th St.
Hostelling International - Fisherman's Wharf - San Francisco; (415) 771-3645; 150 beds; $15.
The American Youth Hostels, Inc., Washington, D.C., received honorable mention for introducing a new global corporate identity program called "
Hostelling International." The staff created and distributed a logo with an accompanying how-to manual.
The award is given to the hostel with the highest overall customer rating on the
Hostelling International website, www.hihostels.com.
Figures published yesterday by Hostelling International - the body which covers youth hostel associations in more than 80 countries - revealed that 87,123 overnight stays had been booked via its website for hostels in England and Wales.
Mikael Hansson, chief executive of Hostelling International, said: "Hostelling International is the only hostel operator offering a global network of hostels with assured standards.
There are some great
Hostelling International hostels full of like-minded travellers from around the world who want to experience the beauty of the Rockies.
We stayed mainly at
Hostelling International youth hostels, which offer decent cheap accommodation plus laundry service and are a great help with organising excursions and train-tickets.
But because nothing was open--not even drug stores where I could ask for directions--I wandered around the streets for a couple of hours carrying my increasingly heavy backpack before I finally found
Hostelling International hostel.
The number of guest nights at holiday dwellings, camping sites and
Hostelling International Norway increased, while guest nights at hotels decreased.
Hostelling International- American Youth Hostels, a nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C., runs a network of more than 120 hostels in 34 states and the District of Columbia and is part of the
Hostelling International network of nearly 4,500 hostels worldwide.