“No way can we let it take hold in our society that children aren’t welcome on a restaurant terrace,” she told Parents magazine.
But Rossignol said the government must go further, and called for a parliamentary debate on her proposal to make it illegal to ban children from venues in France.
Rossignol said child-free spaces amounted to “organising society around people’s intolerance of others” and served to “institutionalise and legitimise intolerance”.
For decades, hotels reserved for adults have been popular in locations such as Mexico and Central America, Thailand and Greece, attracting many northern European tourists, including Germans and Britons.
France has relatively few adult-only hotels and resorts, estimated to account for 3–5% of overall tourism, far less than neighbouring Spain, a market leader.
Véronique Siegel, the president of the hotel section of the UMIH trade union, said child-free hotels were “extremely rare” in France compared with the total number of tourism businesses.
He said the sector was likely to continue to grow steadily in France, in the same way that child-free weddings had increased. »
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