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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Angelique Chrisafis in Paris

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

Guests relaxing on sun loungers at a hotel pool
Guests relaxing on sun loungers at a hotel pool in Saint-Saturnin-les-Apt, Provence, France. Photograph: Image Professionals GmbH/Alamy

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.”

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