What is a Youth Hostel?
A Youth Hostel is a building which offers inexpensive accommodation to young people exploring their country or the world, it also provides a meeting place in which young people of different social back ground, opinion and nationality can meet and come to know each other.
Its function is educational in the widest sense of the world.

Why Youth Hostels.

Kenya Youth Hostels Association Hostelling International- kenya enable young people to know the countryside,cities,enjoy open air recreations of walking ,cycling, skiing etc and give them health and self reliance.Hostels are known as great places to meet other travelers like you,who are looking for Adventure but also want to save money.Our Hostel staff are known for giving advice about what to see,things to do and best places to eat!so be sure to ask about all the great restaurants,attractions,shopping malls etc.We are here to make your travels easier,safe and fun, plus make your travel budget work for you!

What is the meaning of Youth Hostels.

Hostels provide friendly, inexpensive overnight accommodations for travellers. Hostelling International hostels assure travellers the utmost in quality standards including cleanliness, security ,comfort and service.

Hostels offer dormitory-style rooms with separate quarters for men and women. Some hostels also have private family and couples rooms. All hostels provide a blanket and pillow. Linens are often included in the price, or available for rental in some hostels .

Most hostels offer fully equipped self-service kitchens or cafeterias, dining areas, secure storage and common rooms for relaxing and socializing with other travellers. Some hostels have laundry facilities, travel libraries and concierge service. There are a few that even have swimming pools, Our mission is "to help all, especially the young, gain a greater understanding of the world and its people through hostelling." The mission is accomplished through our extensive network of hostels offering a wide-range of programs and activities.

A founder of the Youth Hostels Network Richard Shirmann said: "Every forest, every valley, every flower, every mountain, every village and every city are separate pages of your Motherland. You should read these pages in your own experience and not in books.

The Earth is huge. When you travel, you see the details, and this is the biggest joy on the planet. For this purpose we are now opening Youth Hostels.

However, you also need to travel outside your country, to meet your neighbours, to know them better and to appreciate those who speak other language and have different history. To do this, I am now calling upon you, our friends and neighbours, to open Youth Hostels and to do it for all young people on the Earth. They must become places of peace and comfort for the good of all humanity.

Trade mark "Youth Tourism & Hostels of Kenya" creates own youth hostels chain and cooperates with youth hostels in Kenya like tour operator, marketing adviser and activities coordinator. We offer to our clients Hostel Trips - tours which are based on accommodation in hostels.



Kenya Youth Hostels Association
Is a non-profit Membership organization, organized as a community service with a proud history and a relevant philosophy, which promotes youth
hostelling in Kenya and gives the opportunity to young Kenyans to travel around Kenya and abroad, because the membership card of international hostelling is valid worldwide. So if you have this card, you are accepted in all of those eighty countries and all of those youth hostels without any differences. We would like to see more Kenyan people travel around and use the infrastructure, because all countries are very well covered by youth hostels.Our main task is to promote youth tourism as something which
is not only for people who have a lot of money. We are here to help people
to travel more easily, quickly, safely and to find people of their age
around.

Objective.
The Association aims at developing a chain of hostels for use by its members, creating networks and affiliation with other hostel owners, collaborating with external hostels, investing in creating youth facilities such as campsites, recruiting more members and enabling its members to be part of the global village so as to enjoy tourist attractions, intercultural experiential living, sharing information and expanding personal horizons in life. The Association therefore promotes personal growth, welfare and domestic as well as international youth tourism.

Our Vision
The guiding dream of the International Youth Hostel Federation is to open the world to the youth. This vision emphasizes care and desire to enable young people to experience the world, its people, plants, animals, culture and to learn, recreate and enjoy life. The Kenya Youth Hostels Association is thus mandated to provide hostels, which have cheap, cost-effective, clean and quality accommodation and meals.

Our Mission
The Association promotes the appreciation, love and care of the countryside, wildlife, people, landscape and the general environment and provides for sensitization through travel, recreation, pursuit of knowledge and exchange of ideas among members and hostellers with limited means and resources. The Association undertakes to serve all youth and members of all races, color, creed and cultural background.
If you would like to know more about our services and products please write to

James M Gichohi
Kenya Youth Hostels Association
Ralph Bunche Road,
PO BOX 48661-00100,
 Nairobi, Kenya.
 Website: http://www.yhak.org
Email: info@yhak.org j
ames@yhak.org
Tel 254 -20-2723012 Cell+254722655321/+254722656462 Tel/Fax 254 20 2738046