A Difference
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A Hostelry With A Difference
A hostel to accommodate overseas students, or other budget-minded travellers, will be available in Noumea, New Caledonia, from about mid -1965.
It is currently being built in the Vallee des Colons, an area on the town’s outskirts.
The hostel will take the form of a native village, with 10 local-style huts, a hall and com munity cooking facilities.
It is hoped that it will be completed in time to accommo date a group of students from Australasia who have made re servations for May, 1965.
This approach to tourism for young people, who find the cost of accommodation in tourist hotels completely be yond their means, could well be copied by other Islands terri tories which do well out of the travel industry—usually by catering exclusively for the middle-aged to elderly with well-lined pockets.