意大利酒店鼓勵生育 “造人成功”可退住宿費

意大利中部翁布里亞地區的城市阿西西的10家酒店推出“孕屋”計劃，只要有伴侶能夠證明孩子是在入住酒店期間“造人成功”，就可獲得退款或在將來享用免費住宿。意大利是嬰兒出生率最低的國家之一。

Hotels in the Italian city of Assisi are doing their bit to boost the country's flagging birth rate by offering a free holiday to couples who conceive there.
爲提振全國持續下降的生育率，意大利阿西西市的酒店爲備孕夫婦送福利——夫妻若在酒店住宿期間懷孕即可享受免費假期！

Ten hotels are offering refunds or a free future stay to guests who fall pregnant under the Fertility Room campaign.
十家酒店參加此次“孕屋”活動——於此懷孕的客人們可以享受退款或是未來免費入住優惠。

Guests will simply have to produce a birth certificate to prove the baby was born around nine months after their stay in the medieval city.
客人們只要出示嬰兒出生證明，以表明孩子是在他們在酒店住宿大約九個月後出生的即可。阿西西是一座中世紀城市。

"Giving birth to a child is an act of deep love, which should be encouraged despite the multitude of difficulties in life," organizers said as the campaign launched on Friday.
活動組織者在週五的啓動儀式上說道：“新生命是兩人深沉愛情的結晶，儘管撫養孩子着實不易，但我們還是該鼓勵孕育新生命。”

Local tourism councillor Eugenio Guarducci, the man behind the initiative, said the aim was to encourage travel to the Umbrian town in central Italy -- the birthplace of Saint Francis -- and help reverse Italy's low fertility rate.
此次活動的發起人，當地旅遊業議員尤金尼奧•瓜爾杜奇表示，該活動旨在吸引大家來聖•弗朗西斯的出生地——位於意大利中部的這座翁布里亞小鎮遊玩，並幫助扭轉意大利低迷的生育率。

Italy has the lowest birthrate in the European Union and one of the lowest in the world, with only eight babies born for every 1,000 residents in 2015, according to EU figures released in July. 歐盟七月份公佈的數據顯示，意大利在歐盟國家中生育率最低，同時也是世界上生育率最低的國家之一，2015年每1000名居民中僅有8名嬰兒出生。