Tell These Travel Companies to Stop Funding Whale and Dolphin Abuse

Bottlenose dolphins and orcas belong in the ocean, not in tanks. While most major travel providers have already moved away from promoting marine mammal parks, these companies are continuing to profit from animal exploitation. Urge them to stop selling tickets now!

Jo-Anne McArthur/We Animals

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Denied a Natural Life

In nature, orcas and other dolphins swim huge distances, dive to great depths, explore vast ocean environments, and live in close-knit social groups. Marine mammal parks can never meet their needs. Instead, animals are confined to tiny, artificial enclosures where they are forced to perform unnatural tricks time and time again. They are denied the space, freedom, and stimulation they need to experience any semblance of a natural life.

Physical and Psychological Suffering

A life in confinement can take a devastating toll on marine mammals. In tanks, they swim in endless circles, may float listlessly, or show other signs of stress and frustration. They may become abnormally aggressive as a result of their confinement and the psychological strain of extreme deprivation. Many die far short of their natural life expectancy. In some marine mammal parks, bottlenose dolphins are forced to interact with an unrelenting stream of humans in “swim with dolphins” experiences. Keeping dolphins in shallow water can cause skin lesions and sunburn, and a life of imprisonment can lead to other serious health problems.

Families Torn Apart

Orcas and bottlenose dolphins are highly social animals with strong family ties. In marine parks, they may be bred in captivity, separated from their mothers, transferred between facilities, ripped from the ocean, or forced to live with incompatible tankmates. At SeaWorld, female dolphins may be sexually abused via artificial insemination, and males are masturbated, to produce more babies that lure in the crowds. They are treated as attractions rather than individuals with complex emotional and social lives.

Tell These Companies to Stop Selling Cruelty

Holidays should never come at the expense of animals’ well-being. Selling tickets to marine mammal parks props up an industry built on confinement, deprivation, and human entertainment. In 2026, many countries around the world, including France, Canada, India, and Mexico, have banned exploitative cetacean attractions. All travel companies should act with compassion by ditching cruel and outdated marine mammal parks immediately.

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Mr

Harry

Hastings

Ocean Holidays

Mr

Joe

Hyland

Attraction World Group

Mr

Jonathon

Woodall-Johnston

Hays Travel

Ms

Tracy

Davison-Rowe

Your Ticket Genie

Dear {contact_data~title} {contact_data~firstName} {contact_data~lastName},

I’m writing to urge your company to stop selling tickets to marine parks and remove these attractions from your holidays and promotional materials.

Orcas, bottlenose dolphins, and other marine mammals do not belong in captivity. In nature, they swim long distances, dive to great depths, and live in complex social groups. In marine parks like SeaWorld, they are confined to barren tanks, denied almost everything that is natural and important to them, and forced to perform for tourists.

Keeping marine mammals in captivity causes immense physical and psychological suffering. Many animals show signs of stress, frustration, and ill health, and the majority die far short of their natural life expectancy. These facilities exist to profit from exploitation, not to protect animals.

Much of the travel industry has already moved away from promoting marine parks and similar attractions. By selling tickets, your company is falling behind and helping to prop up a cruel industry that compassionate travellers increasingly reject.

Please do the right thing by ending ticket sales and promotions of marine parks and introducing a clear policy against supporting these exploitative attractions.

Thank you for your time, and I hope your company will take swift action.

{user_data~First Name} {user_data~Last Name}
{user_data~Email Address}

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