Travel Weekly has recently reported that "Time is running out for the industry to fight government plans that could spell the end of age-specific holidays and agents selling insurance".
They go on to explain that the Equalities Bill plans to extend age discrimination regulations to include goods and services which would mean that services provided by agents and operators - ranging from insurance to holidays - would be undable to have any age-related restrictions.
This could therefore mean that certain types of holidays, such as those for the over 50s and the 18-30s market could become taboo as they would be considered discriminatory.
The article does explain that the government has agreed to consider exemptions for group holidays.
This is just a small part of the article from Travel Weekly, but what do you think? Surely somebody would rather know before they booked whether a hotel was suited more towards the 18-30s crowd or the older generation.
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