Wildlife-friendly pledge
Travel & tourism
The future of tourism is wildlife-friendly
Discover travel companies all over the world boldly committing to move away from selling and promoting cruel wildlife entertainment.
What is wildlife entertainment?
Wildlife entertainment includes keeping or using wild animals for activities that:
- risk portraying or trivialising them as pets, novelty objects, comedians, or domesticated species,
- encourage animals to perform behaviours that are either unnatural, unnecessary, or harmful,
- may risk replication of similar activities in harmful ways in other places,
- involve settings or procedures that may be considered stressful or harmful to all or individual animals,
- expose visitors or handlers to unnecessary risks of injury or disease,
- are commerce-driven beyond sustaining maintenance of the animals at facilities striving to phase-out captive wild animal keeping.
These companies have made a commitment
A commitment to move away from selling and promoting activities that use captive wild animals as entertainment such as riding or bathing elephants, taking a tiger selfie, walking with lions, or swimming with dolphins.
By working with World Animal Protection they are helping transition the travel industry towards a wildlife-friendly future.
World Animal Protection recognises that change can’t always happen overnight, but will hold companies to account if they are not fulfilling their commitments to phase out cruel wildlife entertainment.
If you travel with any of these companies and you were offered (at your own expense) wildlife entertainment activities, please make your complaint to the travel company directly, and report this to us via tourism@worldanimalprotection.org.
Each one of these companies:
- Believes tourism can be a force for good and can help keep wildlife wild. As a responsible travel company, we recognise the links between wildlife protection, human health, and a responsible and resilient travel industry.
- Understands the link between pandemics, like COVID-19, and wild animal exploitation, and that the relationship between tourism and wildlife needs to change for the good of people, world economies and animals.
- Recognises that building back the travel industry more resilient and more responsibly is vital. As we face unprecedented challenges and routes to recovery due to COVID-19, we want to be part of the solution for our business, our communities and for travellers.
- Understands that tourists love animals and want to experience them on holidays but are not aware that across the world hundreds of thousands of wild animals are held in captivity and subjected to mental and physical suffering and exploitation for experiences such as elephant rides, tiger selfies, walking with lions or swimming with dolphins.
As wildlife friendly, they pledge to:
- Review our product offers to determine if we are supplying anything where wild animals are being used anywhere primarily for entertainment.
- Create a time-bound plan to help protect wild animals by influencing significant changes in supplier practices and/or phasing-out wildlife entertainment from our promotions and offers.
- Adopt an animal welfare policy for our business and share this policy with customers and staff.
- Provide our customers, if possible, with responsible wildlife offers where animals in the wild, at genuine sanctuaries or wildlife-friendly settings have the freedom and ability to exhibit a wide range of natural behaviours and tourists can observe them from a safe and respectful distance.
- Promote responsible tourism amongst our customers to enable them to be wildlife-friendly travellers and advocates.
This list is not exhaustive and is regularly updated. Contact us at tourism@worldanimalprotection.org if you know, or are, a travel company that does not sell or promote wildlife entertainment; we would love to work with you and add you to our list of wildlife-friendly travel companies.
Take the wildlife-friendly pledge today
Below you will find the list of Travel Companies that adhere to the Wildlife-Friendly Pledge
Click the logos to visit their websites.
54traveler.com
aatkings.com
adventuretours.travel
adventureworld.com
africantravelinc.com
airbnb.com
albatros-travel.com
amazonemotions.com
andamandiscoveries.com
anvr.nl
apollo.se
aromatrekking.com
asiaticlionlodge.com
asienparadisresor.com
atrails.cn
Aussie Adventures
avifauna.se
awake.travel
baboo.travel
bambatravel.com
bambusrejser.dk
bangkokbeyond.com
blackbucksafarilodge.com
booking.com
braziliando.com
brendanvacations.com
cctravel.dk
carrouseltravel.com
compassionatetravels.com
contiki.com
costsavertour.com
destamer.com
diversechina.com
downundertours.com
dragonpass.com
dusit-international.com
earth-changers.com
Eco Tour Camp
earthwisetravel.co.uk
enjoytravel.se
estacaogabiraba.com.br
europeantravelintl.net
evanevanstours.com
exemplaryvoyages.com
exodus.co.uk
farawayadventures.com
gadventures.com
intrepidtravel.com/geckos-adventures
globalbasecamps.com
globetrotter.se
globusjourneys.com
goseetravel.net
gondwanabrasil.com.br
gondwanaecotours.com
getours.com
haggisadventures.com
haggisadventures.com
hannibal.dk
headwater.com
travelcounsellors.co.uk/helen.bateman/
highlandexplorertours.com
baobab.dk
hojskolendk.dk
Ichhe Dana
indigotravel.se
insightvacations.com
inspire-me.travel
intrepidtravel.com
invertedamerica.com
iyooyoo.cn
jambotours.se
qyer.com
joker.be
kenzantours.se
ker-downeyafrica.com
Kinalotsen
koningaap.nl
koonholidays.com
lasochres.se
lionworldtravel.com
lotustravel.se
luxurygold.com
medini home stay
milestourism.com
Minihiker Borderless School
mktramping.pl
Mountain Cats
coletivomuda.tur.br
nalinitours.com
naturresor.com
navyush.com
nazar.eu
bfjr.com
Nourishing Light Nature Education
odenresor.se
intrepiddmc.com
peregrineadventures.com
perfectlyplannedjourneys.com
pinkstravels.com
purposetravel.co.uk
relaksmisja.com
responsibletravel.com
riksjatravel.nl
rolfsbuss.se
safariresor.se
sawadee.nl
secretparadise.mv
seittours.com
shamrockeradventures.com
shoestring.nl
Silver Linings
siva.travel
solresor.se
spies.dk
sustainablejourneys.co.uk
swedasia.com
theadventurecrowd.se
intrepidtravel.com/family-adventure-company
theflapperlife.com
ttc.com
tjareborg.fi
Tour Compass
Tour For More
tourismcares.org
trafalgar.com
Travel2
travel2u.co.nz
ttc.com/tca
travelombia.com
tmttravelphuket.com
traversingafrica.com
treadright.org
tribefamilyadventures.co.uk
tripazzi.com
tripdeals.co.in
tullyluxurytravel.com
Turismo Consciente
turismodeexperiencia.com.br
uniworld.com
urbanadventures.com
varldensresor.se
vegantravelasia.com
viaretravel.com
viktorsfarmor.dk/csr-og-baeredygtighed
ving.se
vivatraveler.com
vivejar.com.br
volontarresor.se
voyage-sauvage.fr
wetravel.dk
wildchina.com
wildernesstravel.com
wildlife expeditions india
wildlyadventures.com
Wildness to Ours
winbergtravel.se
Wolf & Co
woodsatsasan.com
weareworldchallenge.com
worldexpeditions.com
Yougrown Travel Academy
zoomfotoresor.se