June: classes are over, schools are already closed vacation time. And a first group already has its suitcase packed: 4,6 million Italians travelling this month, according to the latest Federalberghi data.
And it is now a consolidated fact that presence of the accompanying grandfather of his grandson on vacation. “I grandparents become essential in planning and managing their vacation: according to our research, around 200 of them will leave with their grandchildren. Grandparents represent an essential and irreplaceable support for parents who are busy with work,” underlines the president of Federalberghi, Bernabo Bocca.
Grandparents and grandchildren: a bond that supports holidays and family tourism
According to Colleoni De Maestri Foundation in Italy, a million grandparents take 1.700.000 grandchildren on holiday. grandparents-grandchildren synergy as well as for the little ones, it is also good for the adults. The grandparents' team is ideal when you can't take too many days off, to take the children on holiday, or when you don't even go on holiday at all. Because, as confirmed by Federalberghi data, this year 32,4% will not go on holiday for economic reasons. And then the presence of the grandfather, to whom you entrust your child to spend a few days at the seaside or in the mountains, becomes decisive. And it goes hand in hand with another trend: the holiday given by the elderly to their family members, especially grandchildren, to get together perhaps on the occasion of an anniversary. A trend that triggers a turnover of over 20 million euros.
