Why AHN For Homestay?

Australia’s Highest Homestay Standards

The Australian Homestay Network (AHN) works with education providers to assist in fulfilling duty of care obligations and complying with government regulations for younger students.

For more than a decade, AHN has set a new standard for international student homestays. We have been the leading provider of homestay accommodation in Australia since 2008. Our highly regarded standards based approach was successfully implemented throughout the United States of America in 2012 with our partner company, the American Homestay Network (AHN-USA), which was incorporated into StudentRoomStay (SRS) in 2020.

AHN brings decades of experience in technology, marketing, and operations, as well as proven policies, procedures, standards, training, and online systems resulting in the most comprehensive homestay program in the industry. Our service offerings include a sophisticated host/student matching process, automated payment services, a rigorous background checking program for hosts, a 24/7 critical-incident service, airport transportation services, and online cultural and hosting training and testing—all of which is all facilitated through our HMS (Homestay Management System) technology. This system facilitates communications, applications, placements, and payments for all stakeholders—students, agents, hosts, and institutions.

AHN has a mission to provide a safe, comfortable, and culturally enriching experience for all parties involved in homestay. We view our hosts as ambassadors for our country. Our selection process ensures that our hosts are interested, motivated and fully capable to offer a supportive environment to ensure each student’s successful integration into Australian culture. Our hosts provide more than a room for rent; they also offer a support system and authentic interest in welcoming a student to Australia. We know that a smoothly executed, positive introduction to a new country is helpful in ensuring that an international student can fulfil his or her educational goals.

We are committed to meeting the needs of your institution, your students, education agents and families. We believe through these partnerships, we can each focus on our core services to provide a unified approach to the international student experience in Australia. If you have not yet partnered with us, we encourage your institution or any individual who is interested in learning about our program to contact us for more information. We look forward to hearing from you!