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2000/7/13-14 [Recreation/Travel, Politics/Foreign/Europe] UID:18659 Activity:moderate
7/13    I'm looking for a good resource for finding decent and cheap
        hostels/dorms in Europe (spec. Italy). Any recommendations?
        \_ Hostel International?
        \_ You can find a lot of info on the Web: the world Hostelling
           International Web site has a link to each country's national
           hostelling organization at http://www.iyhf.org/ihyf/world.html.
           Searching on Yahoo for <city name>+"Hostels" works, too.  Buy a
           copy of the _Let's Go Europe_ guidebook and use it to cross-check
           particular destinations you're interested in.  I've used this
           technique for 6 months so far, and it hasn't killed me yet.  (The
           _Let's Go_ guidebooks are for the "I'm a *really* cheap college
           student" crowd; Rick Steves and the Lonely Planet guidebooks are a
           step up, but still reasonably budget-oriented.) -- kahogan
        \_ I second the recommendation for Let's Go and Lonely Planet, they're
           both pretty high quality (I've used both very often.)  Also,
           maybe you can get some info from AIESEC (http://www.aiesec.org
           If you spend the $15 or so for one of their cards (assuming
           you're a student) you can get a lot of discounts on lodging and
           transportation.  -John
           \_ Oh yeah, the _Rough Guide_ books are also quite good.  -John
        \_ At least in the US I've found that the non Hostel International
           hostels were much more interesting than the associated ones.  But
           yah, you should go the hostel route.
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AIESEC's International President's Meet was held in Sri Lanka this February. This conference saw a participation of around 140 delegates comprising all the incoming and current Presidents from over70 of our country offices. The AIESEC network conducted 4 strategic, regional conferences. These were the Americas Expro in Venezuela, Euro Expro in Italy, the AP Expro in Singapore and Africa's Expro in Ghana. These conferences are held regionally to bring together incoming and current leadership from member countries to further develop strategic plans for their respective countries. The total number of delegates for these conferences was over 400 AIESEC members from national and local offices globally. AIESEC International has recently renewed its global partnerships with Electrolux and ABN AMRO Bank for the year 2004 - 2005.