Youth Hostel Research Articles

Can relationship marketing of youth hostels nudge customer engagement?

Youth hostels are favoured accommodations among backpackers due to their affordable prices and distinctive features. In particular, they offer excellent opportunities for backpackers to actively participate in social interactions. Customer engagement is closely linked to the principles of relationship marketing and becomes crucial when examining how relationship marketing can be improved to predict their likelihood of revisiting. This study aims to investigate the relationship between satisfaction, trust, commitment and customer engagement. Specifically, it examines how both affective and continuance commitment influence customer engagement. The findings reveal that customer satisfaction has a significant positive impact on both trust and commitment. Interestingly, only affective commitment shows a significant positive influence on customer engagement, while there is no significant relationship between continuance commitment and customer engagement. Based on these results, recommendations are proposed to enhance affective commitment and promote continuance commitment in order to strengthen customer engagement in youth hostels.

RESEARCH INTO A STABLE DIFFUSION-BASED HUMAN-MACHINE-HUMAN TEACHING MODEL FOR ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN COURSES

ABSTRACT Conventional methods of teaching architectural design have flaws like fuzzy information exchange, limitations of thought dispersion, and disconnection of theory and practice because of the different cognitive levels of teachers and students. This paper explores the interactive and collaborative “human-machine-human” mode of utilizing Stable Diffusion image generation technology to teach architectural design and achieve artificial intelligence. To enhance the quality and effectiveness of instruction, the model uses artificial intelligence for image generation, optimization, and presentation in accordance with the three stages of architectural design teaching that are developed in this paper. Mainly using the Northeastern University youth hostel design course as an example, this paper compares the new “human-machine-human” mode with the traditional “human-human” mode, assesses the necessity and viability of the AI intervention, and offers examples for future architectural course teaching reform and the comprehensive integration of AI and architecture. In the interim, it offers resources and recommendations for the deep integration of AI and architecture, as well as recommendations for future teaching reform of architecture courses.

Research on Rural Youth Hostel Spatial Design Strategies under the Concept of Environmental Education

With the rapid development of rural tourism and the vigorous implementation of rural revitalization policies, rural youth hostels in China are showing promising prospects. Mass-oriented youth hostels are no longer sufficient to meet the diverse needs of society. The development of youth hostels is undergoing new exploration and transformation, with the incorporation of environmental education content providing a new path for the development and transformation of rural youth hostels. This paper, from the perspective of environmental education, elucidates the significance of conducting environmental education in rural youth hostels, proposes new ideas for the construction of rural youth hostels, and outlines the implementation pathways of environmental education in these settings.

The Effect of E-WOM through Social Media on Purchasing Intention: The Mediating Role of E-Trust at the Egyptian Youth Hostels

The Effect of E-WOM through Social Media on Purchasing Intention: The Mediating Role of E-Trust at the Egyptian Youth Hostels

The Effect of Brand Image and Brand Awareness Through Social Media on Purchase Intention in the Egyptian Youth Hostels

The Effect of Brand Image and Brand Awareness Through Social Media on Purchase Intention in the Egyptian Youth Hostels

Factors influencing dietary patterns among the youth from higher educational institutions in India.

To determine the factors influencing the dietary habits of the varied groups among adults in India. Data on food habits such as choice of diet, preference toward meat, spicy food, sugar/calorie etc., were collected from the participants (from several higher education institutions) of different training programmes and events organised at ICAR-NAARM, Hyderabad and its students of Post Graduate Diploma in Agribusiness Management. Results of the study indicated that the food choice of the respondents is highly influenced by their region, age and gender. Most of the respondents preferred vegetarian food with increasing age. We also noticed that as age of the respondents increased, their preference toward simple & plain food (with less oil/spice) also increased. From the present investigation, it is recommended that the customized food menu should be prepared in every food serving institution based on the region, age and gender of the consumer. Analysis of dietary patterns can be helpful for doctors, dieticians, food policy-making, restaurateurs, youth hostels, food organisations, mega kitchens etc. that would also contribute to responsible food consumption.

EVALUATION OF CURRENT SITUATION, CRISIS MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES AND POST-PANDEMIC PROSPECTS OF TAIWAN YOUTH HOSTEL DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC

In 2020, COVID-19 affected almost all countries, it has governments faced with difficult trade-offs given the health, economic and social challenges it raises. More than half of the world’s population had experienced a lockdown with strong containment measures. The regional and local impact of the COVID-19 crisis is highly heterogeneous, with significant implications for crisis management and policy responses. This study is qualitative research adopted interviews to collect the data. The research focused on the changes in the operation of youth hostels due to the pandemic, the method which they comply to respond, and the future prospects of the youth hostel industry. As a result, it was found that youth hostel operators are slow in responding to crisis due to the lack of awareness, and do not have immediate effective methods to response to the impacts. According to the views of the three participants from the youth hostel operators, the strategies include cost reduction, reducing prices, modification of booking and cancellation policy, develop new customer group segments, revitalize of space and expand the alliance effect was comply in order to cope with the impact of the pandemic. It is suggested that the operators to emphasize on establishing an effective crisis management system with enhancing their awareness of crisis and risks. Developing customer from different categories is an issue to concern in order to avoid over relying on single customer group to make the youth hostel industry more sustainable. KEYWORDS: Covid-19, youth hostel, crisis management, post-pandemic prospect

Bloomsbury in Winter—2020

Bloomsbury in Winter—2020

Designing a Hostel in the Touristic Complex of Quri-Gol Lake near Tabriz, Iran

Quri-Gol Lake is located in East Azerbaijan province, southeast of Tabriz City, next to the main highway of Tabriz-Tehran. This beautiful region, due to its special and outstanding features, can serve for the development of the tourism sector and ecotourism of the province. The hostel is a cheap and comfortable accommodation, which provides simple and inexpensive food, accommodation, and facilities for passengers who have travelled during the holidays. There are four types of hostels: student hostels, single hostels, workers hostels, and youth hostels. This hostel is designed near Quri-Gol Lake, where all the rooms have beds, closets, toilets, bathrooms, and balconies with a beautiful view of the lake. This article aims to study the different kinds and standards of hostels and also the potential of Quri-Gol Lake as an appropriate location for designing a hostel. The methodology of this survey is qualitative and quantitative, using reliable first-hand resources and references.

Nawiązania do tradycji budownictwa wiejskiego w architekturze Wolnego Miasta Gdańska w dobie narodowego socjalizmu

After the establishment of the Free City of Danzig, the process of the renovation and inventory of arcaded houses (Vorlaubenhäuser) and timber -framed churches in the vicinity of Gdańsk began, along with the increasing scientific interest in them. At the same time, in numerous projects from the 1930s, the interest of architects in traditional rural construction, related to the orders of the Nationalist Socialist Party for certain types of structures, can be observed. In the suburbs of Gdańsk and Sopot, standard, posed as idyllic workers’ housing estates were founded, which were to combine the advantages of living in the countryside and in the city. The network of kindergartens of the National Socialist People’s Welfare (Nationalsozialistische Volkswohlfahrt) as well as youth hostels used by the Hitler Youth (Hitlerjugend) and the League of German Girls (Bund Deutscher Mädel) was expanded. According to the Blut -und -Boden ideology, a network of camps for the Land Service (Landdienst) for the Hitlerjugend, community houses for members of the NSDAP Party, and exemplary farms were also founded.
 The repertoire of local materials, traditional architectural details, as well as references in interior design were intended as manifestations of the regional identity, used by the National Socialist authorities to serve the purposes of the Party propaganda, which was creating the myth of an idyllic, strong, homogeneous national community and proving the uninterrupted continuity of German culture in the Free City of Danzig, despite its separation from the German Reich.

In the Spirit of '68: Youth Culture, the New Left, and the Reimagining of Acadia by Joel Belliveau, and: Thumbing A Ride: Hitchhikers, Hostels, and Counterculture in Canada by Linda Mahood

Reviewed by: In the Spirit of '68: Youth Culture, the New Left, and the Reimagining of Acadia by Joel Belliveau, and: Thumbing A Ride: Hitchhikers, Hostels, and Counterculture in Canada by Linda Mahood Katharine Rollwagen In the Spirit of '68: Youth Culture, the New Left, and the Reimagining of Acadia. By Joel Belliveau. Translated by Käthe Roth. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2019. xii + 247 pp. Paper/PDF/e-book C$32.95, cloth C$89.95. Thumbing A Ride: Hitchhikers, Hostels, and Counterculture in Canada. By Linda Mahood. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2018. xii + 331 pp. Paper/PDF/e-book C$32.95, cloth C$89.95. On the surface, these two recent studies appear to present familiar images of Canadian youth cultures from the late 1950s to the early 1970s. Thumbing A Ride: Hitchhikers, Hostels, and Counterculture in Canada examines young people who shared a desire for travel, risk, and adventure, and its colorful cover shows young women in jeans and T-shirts, thumbs extended under the blue sky. In contrast, In the Spirit of '68: Youth Culture, the New Left, and the Reimagining of Acadia focuses on the 1960s student movement in the Canadian province of New Brunswick; the young people in the black and white image on the front are earnest, with placards raised. The carefree hippie and the radical student are two well-worn '60s tropes, but neither Mahood nor Belliveau offer superficial portraits of their young subjects. Rather, both illuminate the broad implications of youth movements potentially dismissed as marginal because of the age of their actors or participants, and each demonstrates the ways that those in positions of power tried both to shape and to accommodate young people in the 1960s and early 1970s. Linda Mahood's Thumbing A Ride examines travel as a rite of passage, focusing particularly on the late 1960s and the 1970s in Canada, when hitchhiking was an important part of youth culture and "transient youth" had caught the attention of the Canadian state. In seven chapters, Mahood documents the changing perceptions and experiences of hitchhiking. In the decades following World War I, the car transformed youthful wandering and visits to a growing network of volunteer-run youth hostels into rites of passage for respectable working-class and middle-class youth. Journalists distinguished youthful hitchhiking from transience borne of economic necessity, and many viewed it as an educational life experience for adolescents. However, in the "long sixties," both [End Page 174] the popularity and perceived risk of hitchhiking increased. Mahood dedicates two chapters to young travelers' experiences on the road, and another three to the various attempts to contain and channel youth wanderlust. Joel Belliveau's focus in In the Spirit of '68 is on the shifting political culture among francophone students in New Brunswick from the late 1950s to the 1970s. Strikes and protests led by students at the Université de Moncton in 1968 have typically been interpreted as brief episodes in a broader Acadian nationalist movement, during which the Acadians (the historic, French-speaking peoples of the Maritime provinces) called for equal access to education and language rights. Belliveau reassesses the students' actions, tracing their discontent back more than a decade and demonstrating the influence of national and transnational youth protest on the students of New Brunswick. While Acadian students had embraced a nationalist ideology by the 1970s, in the 1960s they were moved by many of the same issues that concerned students across North America and Europe, including a mistrust of authority, a desire for greater autonomy, and a wish to democratize institutions. Student leaders embraced a liberal ideology as they demanded a voice in university governance. They rejected the conservative stance of Acadian cultural organizations and argued that Acadians must participate fully in the mostly Anglophone society. When state reforms to create greater socioeconomic equality did not meet their expectations, they not only adopted more radical forms of protest but also shifted to demanding collective rights for the Acadian community. In both cases, the authors foreground the influence of the baby boomers, contributing to a growing body of histories demonstrating how this generation reshaped society as they came of age. Increasing numbers of young travelers on Canadian...

Users’ Perceptions of Green Roofs and Green Walls: An Analysis of Youth Hostels in Lisbon, Portugal

Green roofs and green walls are a potential strategy to increase green spaces in the urban environment. These solutions bring multiple benefits to the cities at the economic and socio-environmental levels. However, from the point of view of private investors, green roofs and green walls often have a negative financial evaluation. Concerning this, the quantification of the benefits according to building use and occupancy could be an important tool to assist the decision-making process and guarantee returns on investment. This study aims to support the decision-making process by managers and owners of youth hostels regarding green roofs and green walls implementation. Using a structured questionnaire, users’ perceptions were assessed through a five-point Likert scale. The survey was conducted in five youth hostels in Lisbon, Portugal. Analyses were performed in two phases. Firstly, using the original sample (n = 345), and subsequently grouping homogeneous individuals through cluster analysis. The results showed that most respondents support green infrastructure installation in the hostel and consider that these solutions could provide a greater sense of individual well-being and local aesthetic improvement. However, there is no strong evidence that green infrastructure solutions are considered a deciding factor to select local lodging, despite the fact that it can be a tiebreaker factor between two similar options. Furthermore, findings have shown that 90% of the respondents from Cluster 1 and 92% from Cluster 4 are probably not willing to pay higher daily rates for youth hostels that have green infrastructure solutions in place. On the other hand, 67% of the respondents from Cluster 2 were potentially willing to pay an additional amount. For the 345 respondents, the most preferred green infrastructure typologies are indoor living wall and the accessible green roof. Moreover, findings support the gender socialization and identity theory showing that women have a greater environmental concern compared to men.

Youth Hostels and Hostile Locals: Vancouver’s ‘Battle of Jericho,’ 1970

Chasing tourist dollars was a necessity for many following the Second World War. However, few people in the summers of 1968 and 1969 could have escaped the sight of hundreds of fashionably penniless baby boomers hitchhiking along roads on their “annual summer trek”. Municipal authorities began to receive complaints about “scruffy young people” panhandling and sleeping rough in cities and towns along the Trans-Canada Highway. Tourism, wanted and unwanted, has the capacity to cause conflict between travelers and locals. In 1970, federally funded youth hostels became the focus of Trudeau’s Liberal government’s need to manage youth unemployment as well as radicalism on university campuses. The focus of this article is youth travel to Vancouver and Vancouverites’ responses to the National Hostel Task Force, which led to sit-ins and police-youth and youth-youth conflict, which culminated in the “Battle of Jericho”. Drawing on contemporary mainstream and university newspaper accounts, Vancouver City Police reports, RCMP intelligence files and activities at University of British Columbia, this article argues that failure to understand the diverse needs of Canada’s young people turned youth tourism into the transient youth problem in the summer of 1970.

Making Space for the Dissertation

This paper examines a residential writing retreat for final year human geography and planning students held in a youth hostel in North Yorkshire, considering how it is experienced by students. This is a curriculum innovation for the dissertation module that combines aspects of geography fieldtrip and writing workshop to support the dissertation writing process and build community, applicable to dissertation and other modules on all kinds of courses.
 Drawing on the concept of ‘the slow university’ (Berg & Seeber, 2016; O’Neill, 2014) where the ‘slowing down’ and ‘stripping away’ of the usual structures and patterns of teaching and learning create a critical and creative space for thinking and writing, we explore whether and how the Malham retreat makes space for writing. The study is also informed by our spatial approach to the processes and content of research and teaching as geographers (Massey, 2005).
 Qualitative focus group evidence was gathered on the student and staff experience and used to evaluate the field trip (Breen, 2006; Krueger & Casey, 2009; Stewart & Shamdasani, 2015). This paper presents the results of this evaluation and it is argued that the retreat made space for writing in three ways:
 1. The space of countryside, nature and youth hostel.
 2. The formal and informal learning spaces staff and students constructed during the retreat
 3. ‘Head space’- the social, psychological and emotional room the retreat made for staff and students

The behavioral response to a corporate carbon offset program: A field experiment on adverse effects and mitigation strategies

More and more organizations are compensating the greenhouse gas emissions caused by their products and services through carbon offset programs. From the customers’ perspective, the mitigation of negative externalities associated with their demand may increase the utility derived from the (then guilt-free) consumption. In particular in settings where consumers do not pay for the marginal cost of consumption, this may lead to higher levels of resource use. This article empirically examines how the announcement of an organizational carbon offset program affects consumption in a CO2-intensive everyday activity (showering). We further evaluate the provision of real-time feedback as a strategy to counteract potential increases in consumption. For this purpose, we conducted an eight-week randomized controlled natural field experiment in a German youth hostel (full 2 × 2 factorial design; N = 9,999 observations). Consumption in the group with the offset program was statistically significantly higher than in the control group (by 5.4 to 15.5%). However, participants who additionally received real-time feedback on their consumption did not increase their resource use compared to the control group. While the results suggest that carbon offset programs may increase resource use, the findings provide evidence that organizations can counteract these adverse effects by making the individual’s resource use salient.

Internationalism, Peace, and Reconciliation: Anglo‐German Connections in the Youth Hostels Movement, 1930–1950

This article examines the close relationship that existed between the English and Welsh Youth Hostel Association (YHA) and the Deutsche Jugendherbergswerk (DJH), the German pioneer movement, between 1930 and 1950, a period in which the hostelling movement also emerged as a transnational organization. It emphasizes the importance of shared cultural values and the influence that the German DJH had on the YHA from its beginnings. It argues that the internationalism and pacifism of the fledgling national association, its debt of gratitude to the parent organization, and close relationship between leading figures, all pushed it toward a position of accommodation with Germany, even when the German movement was subsumed within the racist, nationalist, and militarist Nazi movement in 1933. The YHA thus reinforced the spirit and policy of Appeasement between the wars. In the aftermath of war, however, the same commitment to peaceful cooperation between nations, and the same personal ties, saw the hostel movement re‐emerge as a vehicle for reconciliation. This case study thus highlights the ambivalent role that transnational associations have played (and continue to play) in normalizing relations with terroristic states, but also in facilitating peaceful co‐existence between nations.

Sustained Flow Experiences from Facilitative Structures Can Create Guiding Post-Hoc Visualizations and Positive Affect: Get Students to Tell their Positive Stories to Operationalize the Process

My father encouraged me to go to Europe the summer before my last year in high school (at 16). He thought I was going to stay in a youth hostel in Geneva, but instead someone invited me to go with him to the Alps and he taught me how to hitch-hike by sticking out your thumb on the roadside. We hitched up into the Alps together. I hitched back by myself. Then hitched to southern France and up through Italy to Switzerland again and then around Switzerland. The most agentive-awakening 6 weeks of my life.

Lucky Boy in the Lucky Country: The Autobiography of Max Corden, Economist, edited by Werner MaxCorden. Published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, 243 pages, ISBN: 978-331965165-1, AU$ 149.00

Lucky Boy in the Lucky Country: The Autobiography of Max Corden, Economist, edited by Werner MaxCorden. Published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, 243 pages, ISBN: 978-331965165-1, AU$ 149.00

Система молодежных хостелов как инструмент социальной коммуникации

Система молодежных хостелов как инструмент социальной коммуникации

The nexus between hiking and youth hostels (1907–1933): A historical analysis of the evolution of the German youth hostel movement

This paper reports the results of a historical analysis of data on the history of German youth hostelling up until 1933. While providing a detailed historical account of the evolution of German Youth hostels, the paper draws attention to the strong link between this evolutionary process and the dissemination of hiking. Consequently, the paper proposes that hiking fostered the emergence of youth hostels, which, in return by the 1920s, provided the entire German population the opportunity to participate in multi-day hiking. In concluding, it is suggested that future research should extend the knowledge on this topic, by investigating the role youth hostels in different countries played in spreading the idea of hiking. Management implicationsThe paper provides a detailed historical analysis of the evolution of German youth hostelling. The advantages for management are the following:•It explores the relationship between this evolutionary process and the dissemination of hiking.•It facilitates the understanding of the role historical events play in the evolution of tourist accommodations and the influence that these facilities, in return, can have on the leisure activities of a whole nation.•It may enable managers to be aware of and to integrate these new insights into planning or developing outdoor recreational facilities at a very early stage.