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
AAT Kings
Adventure Tours
Adventure World
African Travel
airbnb
Albatros Travel
Alekos Rejser
Amazon Emotions
Andaman Discoveries
ANVR
Apollo
Aroma Nepal Treks and Expedition
Asiatic Lion Lodge
Asien Paradisresor
A Trails
Aussie Adventures
Avifauna Naturresor
Awake Travel
Baboo
Bamba
Bambus Rejser
Bangkok Beyond
Blackbuck Safari Lodge
Booking.com
Bravo Tours
BRDO
Brendan Vacations
C&C Travel
Carrousel Travel
Compassionate Travel
Contiki
Costsaver
Destination America
Diverse World Adventures
Down Under Tours
Dragonpass
Dusit International
Earth Changers
Eco Tour Camp
Earthwise Travel
Enjoy Travel
Estação Gabiraba
European Travel International
Evan Evans
Exemplary Voyages
Exodus Adventure Travels
Far Away Adventures
Ferie med Formål
G Adventures
Geckos Adventures
Global Basecamps
Globetrotter
Globus
Go See Travel
Gondwana Brasil
Gondwana Ecotours
Grand European Travel
Haggis Adventures
Haka Educational Tours
Hannibal Travel
Headwater
Helen Bateman Travel
Highland Explorer Tours
HÖJSKOLENDK
Ichhe Dana
Indigo Travel
Insight Vacations
Inspire Me Travel
Intrepid
iyooyoo
Jambo Tours
JNE Group
Joker
Kenzan Tours
Ker Downey Africa
Kinalotsen
Koning Aap
Koon Holidays
Läs & Res
Lion World Travel
Lotus Travel
Luxury Gold
Medini Home Stay
Miles Tourism
Minihiker Borderless School
MK Tramping
Mountain Cats
MUDA
Nalini Safari & Tours
Natur Resor
Navyush
Nazar Nordic
Northern Holiday
Nourishing Light Nature Education
Oden Resor
PEAK
Peregrine
Perfectly Planned Journeys
Pinks Travels
Planeterra
Purpose Travel
Relaksmisja
Responsible Travel
Riksja Travel
Rolfs Flyg & Buss
Safariresor
Sawadee
Secret Paradise Maldives
SEIT
Shamrocker Adventures
Shoestring
Silver Linings
SIVA Travel Services
Solresor
Somaiya Group
SPIES
STC Expeditions
Sustainable Jouneys
Swed Asia Travel
The Adventure Crowd
The Familty Adventure Company
The Flapper Life
The Travel Corporation
Tjäreborg
Tour Compass
Tour For More
Tourism Cares
Trafalgar
Travel2
Travel 2 U
Travel Corporation Asia
Travelombia
Travel Phuket
Traversing Africa
Tread Right Foundation
Tribe Family Adventures
Tripazzi
Trip Deals
Tully Luxury Travel
Turismo Experiencia EU Pratico
Uniworld
Urban Adventures, Intrepid
Världens Resor
Vegan Travel Asia
Viare
Viktors Farmor
VING
Viva Traveler
Vivejar
Volontärresor
Voyage Sauvage
We Travel Responsibly
Wildchina
Wilderness Travel
Wildlife Expeditions
Wildly Adventures
Wildness to Ours
Winberg Travel
Wolf & Co
Woods at Sasan
World Challenge
World Class Adventures
World Expeditions
Yougrown Travel Academy
Zoom Fotoresor