The Scottish Youth Hostels Association (SYHA) is a registered charity and operates as a not-for-profit organisation. We run a network of hostels of all types and sizes throughout Scotland, in beautiful rural and coastal locations as well as in the major Scottish cities. We also run hostel-based activity holidays throughout the year and make available many hostels for exclusive group use at attractive prices through our RentaHostel scheme.
Hostels are open to all, and comply with world-wide international youth hostel standards, as laid down by the International Youth Hostel Federation (IYHF).
Scottish Youth Hostels Association was also the founder member of the hostel grading scheme run by the Scottish Tourist Board (visitscotland), and many of our hostels have also achieved awards in their Green Tourism grading programme.