"Welcoming families is not marketing, but a societal choice.”

S ome government officials in France want to ban adult-only resorts and hotels, calling them discriminatory.

The conversation began during a roundtable held earlier this year by the French government’s Minister Delegate for Children and Families, Sarah El Haïry, who warned that such resorts were “ not part of [French] culture, not our philosophy and not what we want to see as the norm in our country.”

According to El Haïry, the practice of prohibiting children restricts their civil rights and functionally also excludes their parents, which she says is dividing French society and putting enormous pressure on parents.

RTL France notes that the child-free trend among hotels and resorts originated mainly in Anglo-Saxon p

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