A ban on adults-only hotels and resorts? I couldn't agree more
Imagine, for a second, there was a hotel that only allowed white people to stay as guests. Anyone of a different race could book somewhere else, but they weren't staying at this hotel. Whites only.
Or imagine there was a hotel that didn't, for example, allow Muslim guests. Imagine it advertised this fact on its website. It said to the world: followers of the Muslim faith are not allowed to stay at our hotel. Everyone else is welcome.
Pretty wild, huh? These are things that used to take place in the last century, though these days would be treated as blatant and appalling cases of discrimination, and rightly so.
You can't shut out potential guests because of their race, or their religion. It's horrendous, inhumane. You can't turn people away because of who they are.
Though… can't you? Because there are hotels and resorts that do something similar right now, around the world. Including in Australia. These are properties that ban a large section of society from staying with them just because of who they are, the way they were born. They advertise it openly: you can stay somewhere else, but you can't stay here.
Those people, of course, are children. Kids.
It's OK to say you don't accept children. This is an 'adults-only' resort, they say. Enjoy the peace and tranquillity of an adults-only travel experience.
It's right there on the websites. It's in the brochures. It's clear discrimination against a certain section of society and it's fine.
That is, possibly, until now.
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