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

Senator Laurence Rossignol says ‘we can’t organise society by separating children off’, as debate grows across the country

Child-free resorts and adult-only hotels are discriminatory, risk creating a society of intolerance and should be banned, a French senator has said, amid a growing debate in France on whether it is inhumane to exclude children from holidays.

“We can’t organise society by separating children off from ourselves in the same way some establishments don’t take dogs,” said Socialist senator and former French families minister Laurence Rossignol. “Children aren’t troublesome pets.”