At this point many will be looking Holiday destination and many others you will have found already. Between one and the other, I am sure that more than one is looking for a destination to disconnect, where to truly rest, where tranquility and relaxation can be breathed.
It is a necessity for many is true and there are those who only find all this in an environment without childrenYes, as it sounds. More and more destinations and establishments are considering covering that need.
Children are not allowed exclusion or freedom of choice?
It is a reality that the tourism sector without children It is spreading and according to experts in this business, it will become more and more specialized. Some professionals justify it by the time of economic crisis that we are experiencing, which leads to the specialization of many businesses and new niche markets are opened, such as the couples sector, adult groups, gay tourism or specialization in Senior tourism.
Clients looking for quality service, good cuisine and above all, fundamentally tranquility and disconnection from everything and everyone, sometimes even from their own children or even grandchildren.
Children are repelled by super luxury
Most are usually four or five star establishments that offer all kinds of water activities, spa, relaxation areas and every night a different party but only and exclusively for adults. Cocktail courses, tastings and tuppersex meetings, activities such as aerobics in the pool, scuba diving in the sea or crab racing on the sand of the beach but obviously always and all designed for an adult audience are very successful.
Caribbean establishments more luxurious, destinations such as St. Marteen, Barbados or Antigua, make it clear what their age limit is as far as the right of admission is concerned: children not allowed.
In Spain at the moment it seems that technicians have found that these establishments are not well seen by the majority of the population because they feel the prohibition of minors, a rejection of both children and families.
However, from the perspective of hospitality companies it is still another product to offer, obviously different from traditional family tourism because it is focused on another type of public. The profile of the client that stays in these hotel establishments is German between 40 and 55 years old who likes to participate in group activities and who seeks quality and tranquility fundamentally.
In addition, those responsible for such establishments have been able to verify that the public in them is more willing to make extra expenses And obviously, business is business.
The explanation on the part of the establishments, goes more towards the client's choice and not so much for the rejection of the hotel establishments, in fact their statistics indicate that a large part of the clients of these destinations are couples with children or grandparents who do not They seek both mass tourism and the differentiation of supply, which make a general escape from everything, including children or grandchildren as well. A deserved rest.
Neither by train nor by plane
It is not just about destinations, there are also services such as those offered by some international airlines where children are not allowed to be part of the ticket.
Asian airlines have been the pioneers in this sense. They have vetoed the presence of babies in first class, they have limited the seats in which they can travel under 12 years, in short, they have been the first to sign up for this new trend of “no children”.
In our country months ago RENFE took the offer on its AVE trains from Madrid-Seville from "silent wagon" in which among other things, it is not allowed to travel under 14 years, alone or accompanied.
Nor can you talk on the mobile phone, nor do you sell some rates to travel in a group or accompanied by pets. Only the public address messages essential for the traveler are issued and have neither a mobile bar nor a restaurant in the square. From the company they point out that “silent wagons” are a new way of traveling increasingly demanded by travelers and hence RENFE has considered this service.
And the rights of children?
The position of NGOs or organizations that work with children is very different from that presented by hoteliers and businessmen.
For example, from UNICEF talk about children's rights and that verifiable facts such as the aging of the population, lead us to forget them more and more. If the rights of children collide with the wishes of adults, we see that these seconds prevail over the first, the social value of childhood is reduced in the eyes of the adult population that continues to age in global figures.
From the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child make it clear that You cannot prohibit the entry of a minor if it is not for your own good, doing so would be against the Spanish Constitution, the European Constitution and the Declaration of the Rights of the Child.
The right of the establishment of non-admission extends to where other rights begin to tread and more in these cases it is considered as a direct exclusion.
For some jurists, this exclusion is still an age discrimination, a lack of respect for children, a sample of the predominance that we give as a society to individualism over the community.
What could be the reason?
According to experts perhaps the way to educate or rude children in some cases offers enough arguments to justify the existence of this type of offer that covers a type of demand.
Some parents think that set limits on behavior of their children does not lead anywhere but pedagogues and educators point out the opposite, within a logic the limits are essential, among other things to facilitate coexistence between children and adults.
The responsibility as indicated by the establishments themselves, must also fall to some extent on families that may not always consider their holiday destination thinking about where children will be most comfortable and that has degenerated into bad experiences for everyone.
