2009 Unconference in Grunau

[Hostels]

People who have registered for the 2009 Unconference in Grunau should have received an email from HostelUnconference.com.

If you didn't get an email, please let me know.

After you login to HostelUnconference.com you will be able to change your username, password, bio, profile picture and email notification settings.

HostelUnconference.com allows everyone in the group to contact all the other attendees to discuss the event before we get to Grunau.

If you have any suggestions or feedback for HostelUnconference.com, please let me know.

Thanks,

Josh

[Hostels]

If anybody is coming to the Unconference from Poland, there are some seats available in a car driving down from Krakow. If interested, please reply to this post and I will pass on your contact information.

[KrumlovHouse]

Hi there,
Is it possible to provide us a list of who has signed up for the Unconference? You can send it to my private email address, if so.

Thanks ever so much.

Carolyn, Krumlov House

[Hostels]

I think there at 15 people signed up at the moment and I'm expecting at least 20. Everyone who is going works in hostels except for one person from a no-commission hostel directory website.

Hope you can make it!

[santa klaus]

Hi Carolyn,

It would be awesome to see you in Grünau! Come on, it´s just a short drive for you anyway!

[aboriginalhostel]

I know this event will just roll on between conversations but I wouldn't mind having a previous brainstorming session...

I would be interested in the following topics:

- Working together as partners, not competition

- How to handle the frugal buyer: customer care for picky guests during recession!

- Alternative marketing strategies

- The booking engine paradox: To be or not to be there?

- Being top rated: The Portuguese Hostel experience

- Running activities to increase revenue and ratings...

I bet there are more topics we wanna talk about... do you have any suggestions?

[Hostels]

I would be interested in the following topics:

- Working together as partners, not competition

- How to handle the frugal buyer: customer care for picky guests during recession!

- Alternative marketing strategies

- The booking engine paradox: To be or not to be there?

- Being top rated: The Portuguese Hostel experience

- Running activities to increase revenue and ratings...

I bet there are more topics we wanna talk about... do you have any suggestions?

Good topics...

More ideas (somewhat overlapping)

• Offline marketing (e.g., making connections with other hostels, even if it's informal - they do an especially good job of this in some places I've been to)
• Booking engines: how booking engines can be encouraged to become more hostel-friendly, and/or how hostels can support hostel-friendly hostel directories.
• the future of hostelling - what is the ideal scenario and how do hostels make it happen?
• bedbug prevention/control -- there was an interesting discussion about this in Canada. I'll see if I have my notes.
• how to make hostelling more popular worldwide
• are collaborative social media efforts worthwhile? (social media = online word of mouth)

[SORs]

If anybody is coming to the Unconference from Poland, there are some seats available in a car driving down from Krakow. If interested, please reply to this post and I will pass on your contact information.

Hey! I'd be really happy you you could pick me up in Krakow! What time are you leaving?

[Hostels]

Hey! I'd be really happy you you could pick me up in Krakow! What time are you leaving?

I let the people driving down from Krakow know...

Here is an update of countries where people are coming from:

• Austria
• Germany
• Greece
• Hungary
• Netherlands
• Poland
• Portugal
• Romania
• Russia
• USA

There are still 5 more days left to register

[SORs]

How many people are registered so far?