Hotelplan Suisse is strengthening its cooperation with the Swiss NGO OceanCare, with a particular focus on dolphin protection. The aim is to advise customers against visiting dolphinaria and swimming with dolphins by educating and raising awareness of the issue. Such activities will no longer be advertised.
Hotelplan Suisse and OceanCare aim to raise travellers' awareness of the problematic issues surrounding the keeping of dolphins in captivity. Hotelplan Suisse with the travel brands Migros Ferien, Hotelplan, Tourisme Pour Tous, Travelhouse and Globus Reisen is pursuing the following measures, to be implemented within the next 18 months:
1. No new attractions or activities involving captive dolphins or whales will be added to the programmes.
2. Swimming with captive dolphins will no longer be actively offered or advertised online or in catalogues.
3. Tickets to attractions featuring captive dolphins and whales will no longer be actively offered or advertised online or in catalogues.
4. Hotels with a dolphinarium will be explicitly declared as such in catalogues and online.
5. Product and sales managers of the tour operator Hotelplan Suisse will receive appropriate training from OceanCare experts.