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2. Spadina Hotel - Wikipedia

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   According to the BC Music Review, it was also one of the venues of Toronto's punk scene. The hotel was renamed the Global Village Backpackers in 1997 and the once seedy hotel became a welcoming youth hostel to Toronto, Ontario. With 190 beds (four people per room) it was the largest youth hostel in Toronto. The hostel closed on January 20, 2014.

3. Childers Palace Backpackers Hostel fire - Wikipedia

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   The Childers Palace Backpackers Hostel fire on 23 June 2000 killed 15 backpackers – nine women and six men – at the former Palace Hotel in the town of Childers, Queensland, Australia, which had been converted into a backpacker hostel. [1] [2] Robert Paul Long was arrested for lighting the fire and charged with two counts of murder and one ...

4. Hostelling International - Wikipedia

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   Hostelling Int'l, Washington D.C. Hostelling International ( HI) is a non-governmental, not-for-profit organisation working with UNESCO and the World Tourism Organisation UNWTO. [1] Formerly known as International Youth Hostel Federation (IYHF), Hostelling International is a grouping of more than 70 national youth hostel associations in over 80 ...

5. What it’s like to stay in a backpacker hostel in one of the ...

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   In 2020, France ’s hostels lost 50 per cent of their revenue, and many were forced to close their doors for good. Those that survived raised their prices, and the entry price for a dorm bed is ...

6. Hostelling International – Canada - Wikipedia

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   The Ottawa hostel is located in a former jail. Canada's (and North America's) first hostel was opened in 1933 at Bragg Creek near Calgary, Alberta, by Mary Belle Barclay. [3] [4] The national office was located in Calgary from 1933 to 1941. It was moved to Toronto in 1941, then Ottawa, Vancouver, and in 1971, it relocated back to Ottawa, where ...

7. Backpacking (travel) - Wikipedia

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   Backpacking is a form of low-cost, independent travel, which often includes staying in inexpensive lodgings and carrying all necessary possessions in a backpack. Once seen as a marginal form of travel undertaken only through necessity, it has become a mainstream form of tourism. While backpacker tourism is generally a form of youth travel ...