PETA Hits TUI With Double Dose of Anti-Marine Park Actions at Awards Ceremony and Investor Meeting
26th March 2025
PETA Hits TUI With Double Dose of Anti-Marine Park Actions at Awards Ceremony and Investor Meeting
London/Madrid – PETA’s campaign demanding that TUI drop cruel marine abusement parks like SeaWorld from its itineraries went global yesterday, with dolphin defenders delivering a one-two punch at events in London and Madrid. TUI is the last major UK travel operator that sells tickets to miserable marine parks, where captive whales and dolphins suffer inside tiny tanks. At the Travel Gossip Awards at The Peninsula London, attendees were met with a shocking sight: animal advocates dressed as dead orcas spilling out of a giant, lit-up trophy and lying beside it on the ground. Meanwhile, at TUI Group’s Capital Markets Day at the Hotel Riu Plaza España in Madrid, dolphin defenders descended outside the hotel, including one dressed as an orca holding a sign that proclaimed, “TUI: Stop Supporting Orca Abuse. Drop Marine Parks!”
More photos are available here.
“Wherever TUI goes, it can’t escape the shame of supporting SeaWorld and other marine abusement parks, which imprison naturally far-ranging marine mammals to tiny tanks for human entertainment,” says PETA Senior Campaigns Manager Kate Werner. “PETA is calling on TUI to stop promoting animal exploitation by ending its ticket sales to these cruel facilities.”
In nature, orcas live in complex matrilineal societies, work cooperatively to find food, and can travel up to 150 miles in a single day. But in marine parks including SeaWorld, orcas and other dolphins and whales are confined for their entire lives to cramped concrete tanks where they can do nothing but swim in circles and fend off attacks from their stressed tank mates.
PETA – whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to use for entertainment or abuse in any other wayother way” – points out that Every Animal Is Someone and offers free Empathy Kits. For more information, please visit PETA.org.uk or follow the group on Facebook, X, TikTok, or Instagram.
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