Modern Organisation
87 national youth hostel associations are members of Hostelling International with over 4000 hostels available worldwide. Based in Welwyn Garden City in England opposite the train station and the Howard Centre, the organisation provides services for travelers and coordinates the national organisations. It also facilitates youth work and international and cross cultural understanding in conjunction with UNESCO.
Hostelling International defines its mission as:-
- To promote the education of all young people of all nations, but especially young people of limited means, by encouraging in them a greater knowledge, love and care of the countryside and an appreciation of the cultural values of towns and cities in all parts of the world, and as ancillary thereto, to provide hostels or other accommodation in which there shall be no distinctions of race, nationality, colour, religion, sex, class or political opinions and thereby to develop a better understanding of their fellow men, both at home and abroad.
Though the parent Hostelling International organization has charity status in the UK, not all member organizations have charity/nonprofit status. Hostelling International Canada lost a legal battle for charity status in 2008, and the YHA in England/Wales considered becoming a commercial company during a 2005 consultation partially in response to increased competition from independent for-profit hostels.
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