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About Hostelling Hostelling, like all success stories, has many parents. Reduced to essentials, hostelling is designed to provide low cost accommodations for the traveler, primarily the international traveler, and to allow guests the opportunity to converse in unpretentious and comfortable surroundings. In terms of material comfort, you pay less for less, but you are rarely alone in a hostel unless you deliberately choose to be. Percolating in nineteenth century Europe, it received its biggest boost after the First World War in an effort to break down the animosity between nations by encouraging kinetic travel and the friendships so engendered. After the Second World War, it was still recognized as a great idea, and governments large and small would often support, sometimes underwrite, their hostels to promote tourism, as well as enrich the lives of their citizens. Travelers almost have to interact at a hostel rather than absently nodding to each other at different restaurant tables. Citizens of seven nations concurrently preparing food in a hostel kitchen is an emotional as well as a gastronomic high. New food, good people, fun times. Much of that government support has gone away as nations have prospered, but the camaraderie of hostelling is still a sought-after experience.