In a translation from English hostel is a hostel. Frenchmen speak: «Auberge de jeunesse», Germans — «Jugendherberge». The hostel in understanding of Russians for many years has got a negative shade. Therefore, speaking about modern hostels-hotels of the western sample, it is more preferable to use a source language. Then there will be no undesirable associations with the dirty ladders, broken santeknic and other “delights” of the Soviet hostels.

The beginning хостелам is a lot of centuries have put the roadside taverns offering cheap places for a lodging for the night to not choosy wanderers back. However the first хостел in today’s sense of this word has appeared only in 1907 when German teacher Richard Shirmann has conceived to make on Sundays with the pupils country walks. But its pupils were very rather poor, and it was difficult to them to find a suitable place for spending the night. The company had to spend the night at schools which were free in the days off and during a vacation. So in a head of the teacher has come to organise thought constant places of spending the night for pupils and the teacher has started to offer a lodging for the night to young travellers at school where it worked. In the evenings from classes cleaned tables and chairs, and on a floor put bags with straw. In the morning each lodger helped to put all furniture back and to put out the straw rests. Later хостел has been transferred to lock Alteny where and till now exists.
Eventually school hospitality has a little changed - now in many countries university hostels turn in хостелы for the period of a vacation if a vacation lasts more than one week. However, in countries of Eastern Europe in such hostels accept only tourist groups, and the tourist-single can not take.
In 20-30th years have been opened some more хостелов in the countries of Europe. To unite them in Amsterdam in 1932 the International Federation hostels - IYHF has been created.
In the middle of the last century idea of low budget tourism have helped to develop hippie: backpacking (from English backpack - the backpack) has become fashionable. The passion to change of places at readiness to be content with a minimum quantity of conveniences has led to popularity growth хостелов.
After a century хостелы have very much changed. Several years ago it was a place only for a lodging for the night which after not quite nourishing breakfast consisting, as a rule, from a cup of coffee and a toast with oil and jam, it was necessary to leave till certain o’clock.
Decent хостелы today are equipped by conditioners, phones, TVs and connection to the Internet. However, despite all changes, democratic spirit in хостелах remained - spending the night cost is equal till now to two cups of coffee. As a rule, хостелы have numbers of various capacity (from 2 to 7 places) with amenities in number or in the block on some rooms, and so-called dormitories - the rooms calculated on 10-20 the person (with the general conveniences in a corridor). Certainly, the there are less than conveniences, the less you pay.