Lockton YH Wins “Oscar”
Lockton Youth Hostel was amongst the winners of the White Rose Awards for Tourism, awarded each year by the Yorkshire Tourist Board and described as the region’s tourism “oscars”. The hostel won first prize in the Sustainable Tourism category. According to the YHA site:
[Lockton] is one of YHA’s first Green Beacon Youth Hostels featuring a rainwater harvesting system, live sedum roof, a compost toilet and photovoltaic cells.
You can read more about the awards in the York Press or on the Yorkshire Tourist Board website.