With almost 500,000 Instagram posts and over 16,000 searches relating to female solo travel this year, it’s no surprise more and more women are choosing to jet off alone! With this in mind, and International Women’s Month occuring, Taxi2Airport wanted to discover the most female-friendly destinations in 2020.

Taxi2Airport have analysed a number of different factors to calculate which popular travel destinations are the most female-friendly, determining which country is best accommodating to female solo travelers in 2020. *

1. Prague, Czech Republic
2. Shanghai, China
3. New York, USA
4. Vienna, Austria
5. Hong Kong, China
6. Delhi, India
7. Rome, Italy
8. Dublin, Ireland
9. London, UK
10.  Istanbul, Turkey

Prague takes the top spot for the most female-friendly solo destination for women! They have the highest overall score for female safety, ranking above all other popular destinations. 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’, meaning that it is likely you will see plenty of other female solo travellers too, despite this, it is worth noting that the general community safety perception* is average among the list, at 65.2%.

Overall, Shanghai ranks as the second most accommodating city for women on the list. Out of the hostels available in Shanghai, China, 89% of them provide the option for female only dorms. They are 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, 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’ (67.2), 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.

Mecca, Singapore and Dubai were not included on the list due to lack of data.

*Methodology: Used Euromonitor International’s top 100 city destinations from 2019 to compile our list, taking the most visited city in each of the included destinations to make the top 30. Then used Hostel World to discover what percentage of hostels in each ranking city has the highest number of female dorms available. Looked at the 2019 Sustainable Development Goals Gender Index score from the Equal Measures 2030 report. Included the community safety perception among women from the Women Peace and Security Index. This percentage is the number of women aged 15 and above who report they “feel safe walking alone at night in the city or area where you live”. Analysed the Google search volumes for the terms ‘female solo travel’ in each country and city to discover the number of people searching for it – this indicates the number of women who are considering visiting.

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