Call to ban ‘intolerant’ child-free resorts and hotels in France | Children

A French senator, child -free holiday villages and hotels for adults are discriminatory, the risk of creating a society of intolerance and should be banned, in France, in the midst of increasing debate about whether children are excluded from holidays.

Socialist Senator and former French families Minister Laurence Rossignol said, “We cannot organize the society by separating children from ourselves as some organizations did not take dogs from ourselves.” “Children are not laborious pets.”

Last month, the French government’s high childhood commissioner Sarah al Haïry – induced Adult Holiday Villages only “was not a part [French] Culture is not our philosophy, but what we want to see as the norm in our country ” – FAMILY CHOICE The award as part of what he calls “the fight against the new children’s trend”.

El Haïry asked the French parents to vote for their favorite child -friendly places as a way to ı put children back into the heart of the public sphere ”and to rely on the industry only for adults. Iz We cannot allow children to keep what children are not welcome on a restaurant terrace in our society, ”he said. Parents Magazine.

However, Rossignol called on a parliamentary debate about the government’s proposal to make it illegal to prohibit children from places in France. Rossignol said that childless spaces meant “the organization of society around the intolerance of others ve and that it serves“ institutionalization and legitimizing intolerance ”. Rossignol, these holiday villages “people ” I do not like and I do not want to see them ‘let me say. And this is unacceptable, because not to love children, not to love humanity.”

Children’s holiday villages and hotels-generally shouting in the pool or diving bombing by children who are not disturbed by the adult adults in recent years with the adults in recent years expanded worldwide expanded and businesses have increased since Covid locking, he says. For decades, hotels reserved for adults have been popular in places such as Mexico and Central America, Thailand and Greece, and attract many Northern European tourists, including Germans and British. South Korea also saw an increase in childrenless cafes and restaurants.

However, French-traditionally focused and family-focused on one of the highest birth rates in Europe, instead of the children’s clubs and camps, the hotel was proud of family-friendly holiday attraction centers. France has a relatively few adult hotel and holiday villages that estimate that 3-5% of general tourism is much less than neighboring Spanish, a market leader.

When the French birth rate decreased and President Emmanuel Macron calls for “demographic re -accumulation of pro -child policies, there are renewed discussions about children’s contraction in society. Last year, an expert report on reducing the screen-time of French children said that children should be given more alternatives to their phones and take their “rightful places ında in the society, including their“ right to be noisy ”.

Véronique Siegel, the head of the hotel department of the Umıh Union, said that childrenless hotels are “extremely rare” compared to the number of total tourism enterprises in France. He said it is a targeted market and that hotels meet customers’ demands. “For people looking for adult destinations, none of them left in France, I have been said to be illegal, neighboring European countries or further?”

Vincent Lagarde, who is an entrepreneurial and business professor at Limoges University, examining the business model of child -free holiday villages, said that the biggest reason for holidaymakers to choose them is not because they hate children, but that they should rest.

Lagarde said: “Currently, there is a kind of physical and mental exhaustion in the French society, it needs to close from professional and family burdens. It is much more complex than just not likeing children, because my research has shown that these holidaymakers have a break from their families. These are not people who don’t like children.

Lagarde found the second reason why people choose childless holiday villages for a special time with a couple or friends. 2014 Survey In France, 56% of parents were on vacation for romantic mini -breaks without children. Finally, there was what Lagarde calls only the “perception of luxury ancak associated with adults. These hotels can get higher prices because they are not just a child who makes noise.

Although Lagarde, French discrimination and commercial laws are open to interpretation on the subject, no family in France does not accept children because they did not bring a legal complaint against a hotel, he said. The Minister said that the sector will continue to grow steadily in France, as well as childrenless weddings.

Jean-Didier Urbain, anthropologist and author of a new book, What does our travels say about us“There is a tendency to search for more comfort and relaxation in society and more time to pause, and this is part of it.

“After all, holidays are traditionally a moment in which citizens can distinguish themselves from their social obligations.”