Traveling with Animals: Companions for Travel, Life, and Freedom
There’s a type of companionship that makes every journey more real, more rooted, more complete. It’s that of our animals. Loyal, patient, curious, engaged. It doesn’t matter if it’s a dog, a cat, or something else: traveling with them changes your perspective, slows down your pace, and brings you back to the essential. But not all places are truly ready to welcome these special travelers. That’s why more and more people are asking for a new idea of tourism: inclusive, affectionate, respectful of the human-animal bond.
Traveling with Animals is an Act of Love
Those who choose to bring an animal on vacation don’t do it for convenience. They do it out of love, consistency, and respect. It means adapting plans to their needs, carefully choosing accommodations, and ensuring their well-being and safety. But it also means living more authentic experiences, sharing walks, sunsets, and daily discoveries. Often, it’s precisely them who show us the most beautiful things.
How to Choose the Right Destination
A pet-friendly trip isn’t just a hotel that accepts animals. It’s a system of widespread hospitality:
- Accommodations that don’t just tolerate, but truly welcome
- Accessible public spaces
- Experiences to do together, from trekking to wine tastings at dog-welcome wineries
- Restaurants where pets are welcome guests and not an exception
You don’t need a big budget. You need care. Raremood strongly believes in this: in the beauty of small gestures, in the elegance of inclusion, in design conceived also for them. Because a beautiful trip, if you can’t share it, is only half complete.
Animal Travel Award 2026: The Award for Those Who Truly Welcome
Precisely to promote a new culture of ethical and animal-respectful travel, Raremood supports and promotes the Animal Travel Award, the first recognition dedicated to entities that truly make travel with animals possible.
Read the official announcement here
The award – conceived and promoted by Isabella Goldmann (Director of Raremood) with GIST (Italian Tourist Press Group) – recognizes accommodations, organizations, destinations, and cultural or tourist initiatives that prioritize the well-being of animals during travel. It’s a vision that goes beyond marketing: it rewards those who truly change the way hospitality is done.
Your Summer, Your Tips
This summer, the Raremood team will be on the road, as always, searching for the most beautiful, sustainable, and pet-friendly places to propose to our community.
✨ Tell us about the accommodations that deserve recognition: where you found human warmth, simple beauty, organization, and sincere attention. Write to us: we’d love to feature them and nominate them for the Animal Travel Award 2026.
📩 candidature.animaltravelaward@gmail.com
