The AHN Difference

Discover Australia’s Best Homestay Program

Australian Homestay Network (AHN) is the world’s most experienced international student homestay network company, and is affiliated with the American Homestay Network. Since 2008, our Group has successfully placed over 40,000 students in homestay environments. AHN incorporates decades of international experience in homestay operations management to help ensure that every homestay experience is successful.

The Importance of Homestay

Guests have many accommodation options available to them when choosing to visit a foreign country. Each option has its benefits, some more than others. Homestay is one of the more complete accommodation solutions available and offers a number of valuable benefits. Homestay is more than a room with meals – homestay is a complete experience.

Guests who choose homestay are in an environment where they are provided with the support, assistance and guidance they need to adjust to life in a foreign country. Homestay provides students with local knowledge about their community and the skills they need to set themselves up.

Are You The Right Fit?

Hosting is an enjoyable, enriching and rewarding experience! Everyone is welcome, and encouraged, to become a homestay host. There is no one perfect profile for a homestay host. AHN recognises that hosts come from a variety of cultural backgrounds and that family composition varies.

Hosts can be singles, couples, families, single-parent families, empty nesters, the list goes on. We do not place bias on household make up, religion or culture. We focus on the host’s ability to provide a positive homestay experience for their guests and pay particular attention to matching the right guest to the right host.

What Are The Expectations?

As an AHN host you are expected to:

• provide healthy nutritious meals in line with the requested product
• provide secure, private, clean, and safe accommodation
• provide the guest with support and orientation including basic security, self-awareness and an understanding of local law and culture
• dedicate time and effort to assist your guest while they adjust to a foreign country
• speak fluent conversational English (while hosting students, English must be spoken at all times in the home by all residents).

If you meet the above criteria, APPLY TODAY!