Hostelling International
| Hostelling International (HI) |
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| founding | 1932 |
| founder | Richard Schirrmann |
| Seat | Welwyn Garden City near London |
| main emphasis | Umbrella organization of national youth hostel associations |
| Action space | international |
| Members | more than 4 million (spread over 90 regional associations) |
| Website | hihostels.com |
Hostelling International ( HI ), formerly the International Youth Hostel Federation ( IYHF ), is the umbrella organization of more than 90 youth hostel associations in 90 countries, which together operate around 4,000 youth hostels and youth hotels. These include the German Youth Hostel Association , the Austrian Youth Hostel Association and the Austrian Youth Hostel Association as well as the Swiss Youth Hostels Association .
history
The founding meeting of the International Association for Youth Hostels took place in Amsterdam from October 20-22, 1932, with the participation of eleven European countries: Germany , Switzerland , Czechoslovakia , Poland , the Netherlands , Norway , Denmark , Great Britain , Ireland , France and Belgium .
At the second international youth hostel conference in Bad Godesberg in October 1933 , Richard Schirrmann , who founded the youth hostel movement in Germany in 1909, was elected its first president. But in 1936 he was forced by the National Socialists to give up the post.
In 2006, the International Youth Hostel Federation (IYHF) adopted the brand name Hostelling International (HI) . HI is a non-profit organization in the UK. With over 4 million members, the association is one of the largest youth organizations in the world.
The purpose is to provide services for travelers and to coordinate the national associations. The seat is today in Welwyn Garden City near London .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ About us. ( Memento of the original from January 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from hihostels.com, accessed January 30, 2013.
