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Friday, June 29, 2007

A Trend Turnaround

In 2005, I noticed many zoos were changing their membership benefits in ways that could make adults without young children or grandchildren feel unwelcome. (see Zoos are for adults, too!)


I found ten zoos that had changed their Individual membership benefits from allowing "one guest per visit" to allowing "one guest under age 12". Since my children are older than 18, and I have no grandchildren (or friends under age 12!), I objected to this new policy!

But I recently checked and found that all ten had changed back to the original benefits, allowing an individual member to bring a guest of any age.

I am very happy about this, especially since I only contacted one of the zoos to complain. That means either a lot of other people also complained (indicating other adults believe zoos should be for them, too), or those in charge of determining membership categories and benefits realized they had been wrong without anyone drawing their attention to it.

Either way, it is good to see a trend in the wrong direction reverse so quickly!

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