Jawaharlal Nehru, the then Prime Minister of India.

The first National Conference of the Youth Hostels Association of India (YHAI) was held in 1956 in Delhi which marked the establishment of the movement on a National level, that received encouragement and appreciation from Late Pt. Three years later the Indian Association received the Associate membership of the International Youth Hostel Federation. In 1949, some enthusiasts in Mysore set up a Committee to promote the movement in India. The idea was introduced in the early forties by the Boy Scouts and Girl Guides of India, Punjab Circle, after that the first Youth Hostel was formally opened at Tara Devi near Shimla on June 9? 1945, inaugurated by Sir Bertrand Glancy, Chief Scout and Governor of the Punjab. The Youth Hostel Movement had found its way into India before the partition of the country in 1947. With this, the YH Movement gained momentum and more Youth Hostels were established in Europe with hygienic and sanitary conditions. The inauguration of the International Youth Hostel Federation (IYHF) was an outcome of the first International Youth Hostel Federation Conference held in Amsterdam in 1932.

The Youth Hostel movement started growing up and as a consequence, the Youth Hostels Association was formed in Germany in 1919. He set up the first Youth Hostel in 1912 in Altenia, Germany, in his own school building so as to provide convenient accommodation to students involved in hiking activities. Richard Schirrmann, the founder of the Youth Hostel Movement. The Youth Hostel Movement is the brainchild of an eminent German school teacher, Mr. To become a centre of safe, affordable and clean accommodation for young people during their travel, to enourage youth travelling in India and education & understanding through personal experience. Since we also serve the broad concept of spreading Peace and International Understanding amongst various cultures worldwide, and, generating environment awareness and care for the nature, we organize and conduct several activities as- Trekking, Mountaineering, Nature Study, Family Camping, Sailing, to name a few.īesides participating in our activities, members are also benefitted by attractive discounts they get through the membership card, not only this, they are entitled to avail the facilities of the International Youth Hostels, spread in 90 countries around the globe and can minimize their travel budget.Our mission is to enable and promote travel, tourism, adventure spirit, national intergration and Education & Health by providing hostels of good standards to millions of youth of limited means during their travel at affordable rates on a sustainable basis and by organizing adventure and educational events and to develop understanding among youth about social & development issues. We believe in the saying- Wandering, one gathers Honey- it drives our thought process and actions, as we tend to spread the sense of learning and gathering knowledge by gaining real experiences with the world, its people, and the nature. YHAI is an associate member of the Hostelling International, U.K., earlier known as the International Youth Hostel Federation (IYHF), a premier international NGO promoting the Youth Hostelling movement, with a widespread network in 90 countries worldwide with more than 4000 unique hostels. The development of the means of communication and the establishment of youth hostels in more beautiful and attractive spots in many countries has made the opportunity of travel at a nominal cost far more easily available for youth. Its hazards and uncertainties and costs used to be too great to allow the common youth to get as much benefit from it as was desired. The virtues of travel have been acknowledged in all ages and in all climes. Since the movement started in Germany in the second decade of last century, there was very little opportunity for young people of limited means to travel at will and see and enjoy the beautiful places in their own country and the world around. The movement is based on two basic urges in the youth - love for the unknown, which includes desire for adventure and the desire to make friends. During the course of the last almost eighty years, it has spread from country to country and spanned all the five continents. Youth Hostelling as a movement has not taken long to establish in the world.

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