Overview

• Sarah El Haïry convened federations of hotels, transport providers and vacation rental platforms, including Airbnb, FNHPA and Umih, to assess the rise of 'no kids' offers.
• The haut-commissaire de l’Enfance labelled the exclusion of minors 'brutal'; she has tasked legal teams with evaluating laws that could restrict adult-only venues.
• Fewer than a dozen of France’s 17,000 tourist establishments currently operate without children, while the model is more common in other European and Asian markets.
• Senator Laurence Rossignol unveiled a proposal to recognise minority status as a discrimination criterion, aiming to secure children's right of access to private venues.
• Industry leaders view adult-only options as a commercial differentiation strategy and warn that strict regulation could drive travellers abroad.