‘Dead Orcas’ Crash Globe Travel Awards Calling Out TUI’s Marine Park Promotion

‘Dead Orcas’ Crash Globe Travel Awards Calling Out TUI’s Marine Park Promotion

London – Last night, attendees at the Globe Travel Awards were met with a shocking sight on their way into the event: a giant, lit-up trophy holding a pair of PETA supporters dressed as dead orcas, which names TUI the Cruellest Travel Company of 2025. The action is part of PETA’s ongoing campaign calling on the tour operator to stop selling tickets to marine parks, where whales and dolphins are imprisoned in cramped concrete tanks and denied everything that’s natural and important to them.

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“While TUI’s execs are sipping champagne and patting each other on the back at the Globe Awards, dolphins and whales are going mad from stress and boredom in tiny tubs at SeaWorld and other marine abusement parks,” says PETA Senior Campaigns Manager Kate Werner. “PETA is calling on TUI to stop profiting from animal suffering by ending its ticket sales and promotion of 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 tiny 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” – opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more information, please visit PETA.org.uk or follow PETA UK on Facebook, X, TikTok, or Instagram.

Contact:

Jennifer White +44 (0) 20 7923 6244; [email protected]

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