December 2007
30 posts
Welcoming Westwood Hostel in LA →
HostelManagement.com welcomes the Westwood Hostel in Los Angeles California to the hostel directory!
Dec 31st
What are you doing for New Year's Eve? →
What is everyone doing for New Year’s Eve? I’m not sure what to expect here in Japan. Going to see what happens… I’ll post some photos afterwards :D
Dec 30th
Westwood Hostel, Los Angeles →
Westwood hostel is conveniently located next to all major city facilities, UCLA, movie theaters, Macys, Barnes & Noble etc. read more
Dec 30th
Check us out @ Minihostels.com →
We’re a growing network of hostels in South America, soon Central America and worldwide in the future. Visit us at minihostels.com Please feel free to contact Liran, Daniel or Ido for link swapping and any other questions. :rolleyes:
Dec 28th
Minihostels →
Minihostels is a fast growing network of hostels in South America. Soon expanding to Central America and the worldwide. Please feel free to contact Liran, Daniel or Ido at info@minihostels.com :cool:
Dec 28th
Hostel business plan examples →
Is anyone interested in sharing their hostel business plan with me or providing it to me for a fee? Alternately, can anyone recommend one of the “canned” business plans I see available on the net? Here is one example: http://planmagic.com/business_plan/h…ness_plan.html Finally, I would be willing to work together with other folks on this forum to research and fill-in some of...
Dec 26th
Occupancy rates →
Hello, Questions for hostel owners- What occupancy rates did you see during your first 12 months of operations? What does your occupancy rate average now? What city is your hostel located in? I don’t have many hostels in my area to gather this information from so I’m hoping that I can work out some approximations from this forum. I’m happy to share my final results with...
Dec 26th
New Backpackers Travel Forum →
I want to send an invitation the users of HostelManagement.com to join the initial beta launch of the new CommunityTraveler.com travel forum. The Community Traveler forum is still in beta, but it was just opened to registrations and posting. Come check it out and help us create the best online travel community! :) The travel forum is just the beginning of the new Community Traveler —...
Dec 26th
where should I start an hostel in Europe?:) →
Hi Folks!! …weeell… I know it’s a bit of a HUGE question.. but I was wondering if you could know differences between countries all over Europe. Actually, i was thinking about Ireland. It really stole my heart:o but any suggestions are accepted:D Let’s say that I don’t want to live in Italy anymore and want to move somewhere else. so dont think of Italy. Thank you...
Dec 22nd
Mobile Phones and Email from Airplanes →
Interesting story here: http://www.breakingtravelnews.com/ar…71220154711675 Making phone calls and using email from planes: “Air France has become one of the first airlines to introduce mobile phone services on international flights. The development will also allow passengers to use their laptops to send e-mails. At present only Qantas has a similar service that is offered strictly...
Dec 20th
Germany's Largest Youth Hostel →
DW-world.de just did a story on Germany’s biggest hostel: read more
Dec 19th
England and Wales Hostels Applying to Serve... →
Youth hostels in the UK face opposition on plans to serve alcohol: read more
Dec 19th
PPC Marketing (Google Adwords, Yahoo Search... →
Are there any hostels using pay-per-click (PPC) marketing like Google Adwords or Yahoo Search Marketing? If you are using PPC advertising, do you track conversions? I wrote an introduction to using Google AdWords for hostels — what I am most interested in is whether people are using conversion tracking to monitor how much money it costs to acquire each booking through Google AdWords and...
Dec 19th
Software for taking online bookings →
What kinds of software or services do people use to take bookings through your own Web sites? Here are some that I know about: hostelworld powerhostels (hostelbookers) ASSD worldhostelguide.com Are there others that people have used and would recommend? I’m especially interested in services that run on hostels’ own Web sites and that can handle taking bookings at multiple...
Dec 19th
Looking to join the team of a European hostel →
Hello, My name is Brian. I am a 27-year-old American male in search of immediate short or long-term employment in a European youth hostel. I have been a backpacker and travel enthusiast for over a decade. I have worked in hotels and resorts in the United States, Mexico, and the French West Indies for the last four years. Eventually I plan to open my own hostel, so I am eager to work very hard for...
Dec 19th
Okinawan music →
I’m currently in Okinawa, Japan. I’ve been to four hostels and will write an update on that soon. The local folk music is played on a 3-stringed lute called a sanshin. I don’t have any videos of the music, but here are a couple of examples that I found on YouTube: This next song is popular, but I’m not sure what the name is: Here are a few photos of Okinawan food:...
Dec 19th
Welcoming Prague and Brazil hostels →
HostelManagement.com welcomes two new hostels to our hostel directory! Old Prague Hostel and Open House Barra hostel in Salvador Brazil.
Dec 16th
work in the USA, sans visa →
Ok, heres my story (or the relevant parts anyway). My name is Chris (gordo was a nickname at high school), I’m 24, an Australian with a British passport. I’ve been working in hostels for a couple of years now but I’ve spent a fair bit of time traveling too. I’ve worked mostly on front desk and as a result am more than at home using Backpack, Charts and RoomMaster. But...
Dec 16th
Okinawa Hostels →
I’m currently in Okinawa, Japan and have stayed at a couple of hostels here in Naha. Here are some things that I like about the hostels in Okinawa that I’ve stayed at: * They were very clean. * The front desk staff are very polite and helpful. * The beds have very thin pads for mattresses with a beanbag for a pillow. I really like this. * Hostel beds are still cheap — 1500...
Dec 15th
work somewhere!!! →
Hi!!! I’m a girl from Barcelona and I’m 22 years old. I’m searching some work for this summer somewhere, it doesn’t matter where… I speak spanish, catalan and english. I will spend the next semester studing more english and french. Well, I could send my CV if someone wants :) My email is kalilluceta@hotmail.com
Dec 15th
Old Prague Hostel →
ONE OF THE FEW HOSTELS REALLY LOCATED IN HISTORICAL CENTER!!! Inside OLD TOWN! read more
Dec 14th
Full time hostel job wanted anywhere! →
Hi, Im a twenty four year old guy from England looking to get into the hostel business. I have had alot of succsesfull customer service experience including working both in reatil roles but also as a live-in position in a public house in England and as a general hostel assistant in Corfu. I am friendly outgoing and love to travel. Ive traveled all around europe including Spain, Germany and Greece...
Dec 14th
Greetings from New York →
Dear hôteliers, or may we call ourselves hôsteliers, :p We are Jazz Hostels, located in Manhattan, New York and South Beach, Florida. We operate 6 friendly hostels, you may want to have a look at www.jazzhostels.com for details. We are proud to join this great community of hostels operators and certain that we can learn much from each other and cooperate to increase the level of our guest...
Dec 13th
Clown and Bard hostel in Prague, Czech Republic →
Hostel Clown and Bard Prague established somewhere since 1995 I start to manage hostel summer 2000 more at: www.clownandbard.com Robert Sket ++420 606 746 145
Dec 10th
Hostel Blogs
I recently added a poll in the forums to see what people though about hostel blogs. Jazz Hostels has a great example of a hostel blog.
Dec 10th
Eastern Europe ... Baltic States →
Peoples thoughts on expanding market? Inreasing opportunities or not?
Dec 7th
Piggy Back Search Engine Marketing for Hostels →
This article describes a way that you can increase bookings to your hostel by increasing the search engine rankings of the pages about your hostel on hostel booking engines’ Web sites. In other words, you can get more bookings by helping your listings on the hostel booking engines’ Web sites rank higher. read more
Dec 6th
Piggyback Search Engine Marketing →
I’ve just published an article about How to get increased visibility for your booking site pages in search engines… The article gives a basic introduction to the technique of optimizing your booking engine listings so that they rank well in Google. For example, in the image below, Google chose to list a specific hostel when it doubled up the listing for hostels.com: If you follow...
Dec 6th
Forum Software Feedback →
Does anyone have any opinions on this forum software that is being used on HostelManagement.com? I am going to launch a couple of new travel-related forums soon and I’m wondering what users think of this software. Have you noticed any bugs? Is the way that the software sends email notification annoying or helpful? Is there different forum software that you like better? Any feedback on the...
Dec 6th
Hostel Blogs →
This survey is for hostels regarding the subject of hostel blogs. This poll will be open indefinitely. If there is interest, I will write an article about how to successfully implement hostel blogs. For those readers who do not own or manage hostels, feel free to contribute opinions in this thread also. (The poll is at the top of the page — please scroll up if you can’t see the...
Dec 6th