Photos: PETA Hits TUI With Floating Anti–Marine Park Message

30 July 2024

Photos: PETA Hits TUI With Floating Anti–Marine Park Message

Rotherham – Today, a PETA activist burst into TUI’s Rotherham branch, one of the company’s “holiday superstores”, and released a bunch of floating balloons with the message “TUI: Let Marine Parks Go!” This is PETA’s latest action to urge the travel provider to sever its ties with marine abusement parks that hold orcas and other dolphins captive in the name of entertainment.

Video footage is available here.

PETA notes that while orcas in nature form complex relationships, work cooperatively to find food, and traverse up to 150 miles of ocean every day, those at marine parks are housed in incompatible groups in cramped tanks. Held in these concrete prisons for decades and forced to perform tricks for tourists, the majority die far short of their natural life expectancy.

Most leading companies, including rival Jet2holidays, have ended the promotion of dolphin prisons. TUI’s propping up of the notorious SeaWorld in Orlando, Florida, and promotion of other abusement parks like Loro Parque in Tenerife, Spain, is an embarrassment to the entire travel industry.

“TUI should be ashamed to promote businesses that cause the pain, suffering, and premature death of orcas and other dolphins,” says PETA Senior Campaigns Manager Kate Werner. “PETA will keep pulling out all the stops until TUI cuts ties with animal abuse and finally aligns with caring British holidaymakers.”

PETA – whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to use for entertainment or abuse in any other way” – opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview.

For more information, please visit PETA.org.uk or follow the group on Facebook, X, TikTok, or Instagram.

Contact:

Jennifer White +44 (0) 20 7837 6327; [email protected]

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