Family vacation format? Sorrento is one of the favorite places to visit. To say it is a search of the Hundred Rooms portal
On the occasion of the International Family Day, which will be celebrated on May 15, Hundred Rooms has been researching how much Italy is family friendly with regard to the tourist aspect, or rather the characteristics of the types of accommodation offered.
The survey put under the magnifying glass the most important cities of Belpaese and the most popular seaside resorts to find the percentage of family friendly accommodations. The calculation was made on the basis of the total number of holiday homes and apartments equipped with everything that could be useful to a family on vacation: from washing machine, to pets, from the kitchen equipped to outside areas for children, As well as the availability of cots and highchairs.
Interesting results have come out of the research, which mainly reward the seaside resorts, while large cities, which attract thousands of tourists each year, have much lower rates.
According to Hundred Rooms, Viareggio and Formia are one of the most attentive places, with over 29% of family friendly accommodations and over 6% of cot available. It also exceeds 20% in Gaeta and Elba, while the Sardinian resort of Alghero, with its 19%, is approaching this figure. In Taormina and Sorrento, family friendly accommodation is around 16%, while tourist apartments with cots vary between 8% and 9%.
Percentages much smaller in big cities, such as Milan, Turin and Naples, where it is not more than 5-6%, while in Florence the figure is 6.3%. Slightly better, Rome, Palermo and Bologna, where family friendly accommodation is around 7%, while those with cradle are 19.5% in Rome, 11% in Palermo and 2.8% in Bologna.
The rise of Airbnb and many other portals that propose renting apartments, villas and holiday homes is surely changing the target of travelers, also encouraging families to move with reduced difficulty. It is necessary to adapt and Italy is a country very attentive to the needs of its visitors, not by chance Italian, especially the South, is known for its hospitable spirit, which leaves a presumption of family friendly accommodation in the near future .
C. G.
