Youth Hostel Association of New Zealand

The Youth Hostel Association of New Zealand (YHA New Zealand or YHA NZ) was a youth hostelling association in New Zealand. It owned some hostels, with others privately owned by franchise partners or associate partners. The national office was in Christchurch.

With the impact of the world-wide COVID-19 pandemic, which started in 2020, many of the franchisees and associates stepped back from operating hostels, including some who sold their properties. In November 2021, YHA NZ said it would close the remaining 11 hostels it owned on 15 December, due largely to COVID pandemic-related financial losses, but 23 individually owned hostels would continue to operate – these included Ahipara, Paihia, Bay of Islands, National Park, Taupō, Waitomo, Whanganui, Whangārei, Arthur's Pass, Golden Bay, Hanmer Springs, Kinloch, Nelson, Picton, Punakaiki, Springfield and Westport. In 2022 YHA sold its five remaining hostels (Auckland, Aoraki / Mount Cook, Franz Josef, Queenstown Lakefront and Te Anau), and four hostels previously sold to RPZ in 2021 and leased back to manage were also on-sold to Gaw Capital Holdings Limited (Rotorua, Wellington, Lake Tekapo and Wānaka). Eight of them rejoined as YHA Associates, only Te Anau not keeping the YHA logo. The lease of Christchurch Hereford St was also taken over by Gaw in 2022. The hostels were then refurbished and rebranded Haka House.

YHA NZ went into liquidation at the end of 2024, though its website continues with links to five: Nelson and Westport on the South Island; Taupō, Waitomo and Whanganui on the North Island.