We’re highlighting three distinctive tourist accommodation establishments, all members of HOSTELLING INTERNATIONAL, as a group of eco-friendly companies, with which we are committed to the conservation of the environment and nature.
The following HI hostels are part of ecotourism:
In order to understand what the future will bring based on the deeds done in the past, we can look at the Quality for the Future interview and the introduction of the quality system in youth hostels. The current holders of the Hostelling International Quality and Sustainability (HI-Q&S) certificate are MC Hostel Brežice and HOP Hostel Pekarna. The latter was awarded the certificate this year. The sustainability of these hostels is evidenced by their operational reliability and environmental protection.
Maintaining sustainable consumption and the protecting local communities are the two primary advantages of our ECO hostels. You can read more about sustainable tourism and development, as well as about how to travel sustainably before visiting one of the TOP suggested hostels by visiting our Travel Different for Future website. Each tip will make travelling and living in HI ECO tourist accommodation more easily available to anyone.
Hostel PUNKL is a low-energy wooden building. With the natural and bioclimatic conditions of its environment, it constitutes eco-friendly and sustainably designed HI tourist accommodation. It covers an area of 570 sq. m and offers 48 beds in double, quad or eight-bed rooms with private bathrooms. Eight rooms with interesting names, such as Gnar, Klobase, Šnops, Mošt, Prajzlper, Klocne, Grumpi and Šartelj, all have wooden furniture, which has a warm and cosy feel. The sizes of rooms are 17 sq. and 31 sq. m. The Ravne na Koroškem Cultural Centre, located in the city near the hostel, has a large theatre hall and a small multi-purpose hall and gallery, both of which can be rented for conferences, events, exhibitions and social meetings. The large theatre hall has 187 seats and the small multi-purpose hall has 120 seats. The gallery’s size is 141.60 sq. m. The cultural centre’s is equipped with 32 spotlights, a sound system, a mixing desk and a hearing loop for people who are hard of hearing. The halls are also accessible for people on wheelchairs. The cultural centre also houses a library and a multimedia hall.
MC Hostel Brežice is located near Slovenia’s largest natural health resort, Terme Čatež. This tourist accommodation offers overnight stays, relaxation, socialising and a number of other activities you can choose from that are part of the youth hostels rich offer. The rooms and suites have modern furniture which complements the colourful walls that are supposed to make guests feel better. The hostels have the HI-Q&S sustainability certificate, ensuring that it caters to the needs of its guests, guarantees high quality as ECO accommodation through the implementation of quality practices in all areas, and ensures consistency when it comes to travellers, such as check-ins, check-outs and checking of documents. After all, the hostel is result-oriented. You can check out the local points of interest, such as The World of Energy interactive multimedia education centre, Brežice Castle with the Knight’s Hall, the Jovsi Nature Park, Dobrava Lowland Forest, the Fabinc Herbal Farm, the Repnice Caves and Ban’s Homestead. Sports enthusiasts can rent the Brežice Sports Arena, the Brežice Football Stadium, the Brežice Balloon Sports Arena and the Brežice Sports Stadium.
HOP Hostel Pekarna is a modern tourist accommodation, which provides space, equipped with TVs and computers, and a cosy lounge area with a TV where the staff organises themed gatherings for the guests. The rooms are designed as residential centres where modern studio apartments and suites come with either a private kitchen, bathroom and a terrace or a private kitchen and bathroom. This year, the hostel was awarded the HI-Q&S certificate, therefore becoming an internationally recognised accommodation establishment, contributing to the reduction of adverse impact on the environment and society. Maribor was awarded the title the Alpine Town of the Year in 2000, the European Capital of Culture in 2012, and the European Rafter City in 2013. The city is famous for being home to the world’s oldest fruit-yielding grape vine – the Old Vine. It’s 440 years old. It’s a Žametovka vine, also known as Modra kavčina and it grows in front of the Old Vine House in Lent. Visitors in Maribor can check out the old city walls, or the Water Tower, the Judgement Tower, the Jewish Tower and the Tscheligi (Čeligi) Tower, which are presented by Hostel Pekarna.
The pollution of our planet has raised great questions, such as how to manage waste material from mass-market products and how to continue producing new and useful materials that are essential for life. Eco-friendly approaches dictate the modern way of sustainable operations with which we try to reduce the adverse impact of harmful substances on the environment, as well as reduce water consumption and waste production. By making HI hostels more environmentally conscious, the response to the current situation in the world is gradually developing. There is therefore good reason to highlight tourist accommodation establishments in Slovenia which are part of the ecotourism network. Hostel PUNKL, MC Hostel Brežice and HOP Hostel Pekarna are eco-friendly HI tourist accommodation establishments, which help make the world and the environment cleaner.
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