(Alliance News) - Hostels operator Safestay PLC said Thursday it has bought Hostel Pisa for EUR3.3 million cash, as part of its strategy to establish a pan-European network of hostels located in ...

A backpackers' hostel linked to the deaths of six tourists is set to reopen under a new name. Bethany Clarke and her friend Simone White, who later died, fell ill after drinking free vodka shots in ...

An Italian backpacker's spine was fractured in an alleged attack by two 13-year-old girls she had just said hello to, while a third suspect filmed the alleged assault. The woman, 30, was sitting on a ...

Italian-born Stefano De Simone decided to pack a backpack to travel around the world at the age of 25. "I needed something fulfilling and a backpacking adventure was the answer,” he said. For his ...

A student determined to expose the truth about how her friends died. She tells the programme why she never felt the hostel building that collapsed in the Italian earthquake was safe. Also featured, ...