PRAGUE is the most female-friendly travel destination, says Taxi2Airport.com. The capital of Czech Republic has the highest overall score for female safety, ranking above all other popular destinations as the most female-friendly.
Prague ranks highly due to 87% of the hostels having female only dorms and a high number of people searching for ‘female solo travel Prague/Czech Republic’. However, it is worth noting that the general community safety perception is average among the list, at 65.2%.
China’s second biggest city, Shanghai ranks as the second most accommodating city for women on the list, with 89% of its hostels provide the option for female only dorms. The city is also among the cities with the highest community safety perception for women, with 82.3% stating they feel safe walking alone at night.
Interestingly, the Egyptian capital, Cairo, has the second highest community safety perception with 82.6% of women stating they feel safe walking alone at night. Egypt would be an ideal destination for travellers, despite only 34% of hostels having female specific rooms, as there are over 5.8million Instagram tags for Cairo, making it Insta-worthy.
Moscow, Russia has the lowest overall score for female-friendliness, only 24% of their hostels include female only dorms, and the search volumes for female solo travellers is very low, indicating that there is a lack of females visiting alone. Additionally, Russia’s SDG score is ‘poor’, showing that the country’s gender policies and issues are not being effectively tackled.
Johannesburg in South Africa has the second lowest overall score, with only 26.9% of women stating that they feel safe walking alone at night.
Now, where is Kuala Lumpur? Kuala Lumpur is ranked 22nd, left far behind by Delhi, India (ranked 6th) and Jakarta, Indonesia (13th)!
*Taxi2Airport.com analysed a number of different factors to calculate which popular travel destinations are the most female-friendly. It used few sources like Euromonitor International’stop 100 city destinations from 2019, Hostel World, the 2019 Sustainable Development Goals Gender Index, among others.
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