Dog owners often face a dilemma before travelling — leave your beloved pet with a sitter or at a kennel?

Both require quite some planning and logistics, which can be stressful and time-consuming for fur parents.

Rome’s Fiumicino International Airport has sought to streamline the process by opening one of the first on-site hotels at a major European airport, following a similar initiative in Frankfurt .

Dog Relais’ workers even retrieve pups from the terminal so travellers can proceed straight to their flight.

“This project is fitting into a strategy to provide a very immersive experience to passengers,” said Marilena Blasi, chief commercial officer at Aeroporti di Roma, the company that manages the Italian capital’s two airports.

“In this case, we provide services to dogs and the

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