TRENT. There are 478,166 beds available for tourists in Trentino. If everyone were employed at the same time, the population of the province would practically double instantly. The data, published in the latest update of the Trentino tourism yearbook, photograph the hospitality situation in the province as of 31 December, also making a comparison with the years previousThe beds available.
There are 1,427 hotels currently in operation for a total of 90,569 beds, i.e. an average of 63.5 places per facility. There are 1,943 non-hotel establishments with 82,125 places: these include room rentals, bed & breakfasts, campsites, refuges, colonies and agritourisms. There are 13,120 private houses for rent with 57,016 beds. Finally, there are 64,943 second homes for a total of 248,456 beds.
Compared to 40 years ago, Trentino has lost 420 structures, compared to 15 years ago, 85 hotels and 4,681 beds were lost. The ones who closed were almost exclusively smaller hotels, which evidently did not adapt to the demands of tourists and gradually ended up out of the market. There are 97 one-star and 78 two-star properties. The 4-star hotels increased by 76 units and the 5-star hotels by 8 (from 202 to 759 beds).
In the same period, Trentino saw an explosion of other forms of hospitality. Under the group of guest houses, B&Bs and holiday homes (in the acronym CAV) managed in an entrepreneurial manner (essentially residences) they went from 561 in 2010 to 1,163 at the end of 2023, bringing the available beds from 16,627 to 22,854, with a increase of 37.5 percent. No change regarding the campsites (about seventy) with the number of places offered remaining around 35 thousand.
Colonies and holiday homes are also stable, while another boom is recorded in the agritourism sector, which went from 269 to 359 companies, but above all from 3,374 beds to over 7,200. Airbnb. The latest data published the other day in the Sole 24Ore speak of over 18,400 rooms made available to guests tourists and travelers throughout the region. Realistically, taking Trentino alone we can talk about around 9 thousand rooms for around 30 thousand beds and a turnover of 120 million euros.
According to Confindustria’s economic newspaper, Trentino has an occupancy rate of these structures above 55 percent, in line with the national average and a rather high RHR index, which measures the ratio between residents and accommodation offered on the Airbnb portal.
Regarding rented apartments and second homesthe total rises from 70 thousand to around 77 thousand, with internal movements within the group for a total of over 300 thousand beds, on the same levels as 15 years earlier.
These data are the basis of the requests of the hoteliers’ unions about the need to close to requests for urban planning variations for new homes and second homes especially in the valleys, rather opening up the possibility of identifying new areas with hotel destinations. This also includes the issue of the new provincial law on the use of abandoned hotels as guest quarters for tourism sector employees.
