Working with communities to create great hostels, bunkhouses and lodges.

What is Hostel Hub?

Hostel Hub works with communities and hostel owners to create great hostels.

We can help you learn the skills and put in place the systems you need to manage a successful hostel business.

How can a hostel benefit our community?

Hostels bring income, jobs and a new segment of visitors who wouldn’t otherwise visit.

Hostel guests tend to:

  • interact more with the community
  • are often more interested in getting to know people and the area
  • buy their food from local markets
  • use public transport

Overall, hostel guests often put more money into the community than other types of guests.

To understand how we can help you, read how we turned around a failing hostel:

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Latest news

March 25, 2013 |

New workshop: Creating Exceptional Community Hostels

Curious how a hostel can help solve your community’s problems such as unemployment or lack of community...

December 20, 2012 |

Project: Portsoy Bunkhouse

Client problem The North East Scotland Preservation Trust and Scottish Traditional Boat Festival charity needed to...

November 23, 2012 |

Free ferry travel for Orkney and Shetland social enterprises

The company who who will supply Northlink ferry its coffee, Caber Coffee, are thinking of giving us money. Turns...

November 21, 2012 |

What a week! Our first Scottish project and our first grant

It’s been a fantastic week. We have won a grant from UnLtd to legally incorporate as a social enterprise,...

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