An agent who has campaigned for the UK’s three biggest operators to stop selling attractions with captive cetaceans says she will now promote Jet2holidays to her clients after it changed its policy on marine parks this week.
Reading-based Travel Counsellor Marie Rowe – one of TTG’s Sustainable Travel Ambassadors 2023 cohort – said she would “sacrifice” bookings if an operator is “not aligned" with her own moral stance.
Rowe told TTG in November animal welfare campaigners like herself were "not going to shut up" about the issue and would continue to put pressure on operators who sold tickets to venues which feature cetaceans.
On Tuesday (26 March), Jet2holidays announced it would stop selling tickets to venues featuring cetaceans like orcas, whales and dolphins – days after easyJet holidays said it would no longer promote zoos and marine parks under its new animal welfare policy.
Their respective stances now set Jet2 and easyJet holidays apart from Tui, which continues to sell such attractions. A snap poll of TTG readers on Wednesday (27 March) asking whether Tui should stop selling marine parks came down 80% in favour.
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