I came across this website (Hostelmanagement.com) last week and found it thoroughly interesting. It is basically a community website for hostel owners and managers to share advice etc., It is an interesting concept and one that I had talked to Grant Currie at Plus Villages about a number of years ago.

Hostel Management also has a My Space site and it is interesting to see that they have more “friends” on their My Space site than hostel active or featured on the forums and directory. I guess self interested promotion is more important to most than getting the sense of community going - it will be interesting to see if Hostel Management can generate the community traction.