TripAdvisor stops selling cruel wildlife tourist attractions

TripAdvisor stops selling cruel wildlife tourist attractions

More than 558,000 supporters across the world called upon TripAdvisor to stop profiting from the sale of tickets to cruel wildlife tourist attractions and today the company announced they will stop selling tickets to some of the cruelest wildlife activities.

The decision comes after World Animal Protection launched a petition urging action, less than six months agao.

This is the latest breakthrough for the charity’s Wildlife – Not Entertainers campaign and is a significant step towards ending elephant rides, tiger selfies, swimming with dolphins and other forms of cruel tourist entertainment.

World Animal Protection will join other animal welfare, conservation and tourism industry experts to work with TripAdvisor as they launch a new education portal linked to every animal attraction listing on TripAdvisor. The portal will educate millions of tourists about the cruelties wild animals face for tourism entertainment. According to an independent polling commissioned by World Animal Protection, 85 per cent of people agreed that wild animals belong in the and three quarters said it was wrong for people to make an income from using wild animals for entertainment if the animals suffer.

World Animal Protection head of campaigns in Australia, Nicola Beynon said “We congratulate TripAdvisor on taking this important step towards ending the cruel wildlife tourism entertainment industry – it’s also a great result for over half a million World Animal Protection supporters who took action to stop the travel site from profiting on sales of cruel wildlife tourist interactions.”

“We’re happy to be a part of their new initiative to help raise awareness among TripAdvisor users about these abuses and we will work with and continue to steer the company until all sales of cruel wildlife entertainment has been removed and their users know about every cruel wildlife attraction. Once people know the truth about these wildlife abuses they will choose to stay away because they love animals,” Beynon added.

Animal Protection has been working to bring an end to this suffering of animals for tourist entertainment, World by engaging with the travel industry globally seeking for them to commit to not send their customers to venues where they can ride elephants, take selfies with tigers and lion cubs.

More than 100 global travel companies have already agreed to no longer offer visits to venues with elephant rides and shows in any of their markets. Among these are popular brands from across the world, like Contiki, Kuoni Travel UK, Intrepid and TUI.

Email the Travel Weekly team at traveldesk@travelweekly.com.au

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