ANIMAL WELFARE POLICY
Our teams who build travel experiences across the globe take wildlife protection seriously. Our Animal Welfare Policy helps them ensure the wildlife experiences offered by The Travel Corporation‘s family of brands meet our high standards.
Our policy is supported by internal training of our teams to ensure compliance across all animal encounters. In cooperation with our partner World Animal Protection and with guidance from globally recognized animal welfare criteria, the Five Domains of Animal Welfare, we are pleased to encourage and support a travel industry free of animal cruelty.
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WILDLIFE EXPERIENCES IN OUR INDUSTRY
Our partnership with World Animal Protection and our first Animal Welfare Policy both launched in 2014 after TTC joined more than 100 travel companies in signing World Animal Protection’s Elephant-Friendly Tourism Pledge, and stopped the sale of experiences that involved elephant rides or shows. Since then, we’ve worked in partnership with World Animal Protection, the WTTC, Blood Lions, and, most recently, End Wildlife Crime to address behavioral and systematic change in our industry.
In partnership with our family of brands, we provide training on animal welfare and conduct an audit of all TTC experiences every two years, involving wild or domestic animals . TTC and TreadRight support World Animal Protection’s goal of changing supplier behavior within the industry through the Coalition for Ethical Wildlife Tourism, established to demonstrate consumer demand for ethical wildlife experiences. See how else we support wildlife through our Wildlife projects. Learn how you can ensure your animal encounters are ethical, on our Wildlife page.
Nutrition
Factors that involve the animal’s access to sufficient, balanced, varied, and clean food and water.
ENVIRONMENT
Factors that enable comfort through temperature, substrate, space, air, odour, noise, and predictability.
HEalth
Factors that enable good health through absence of disease, injury, impairment, and good fitness level.
Behaviour
Factors that provide engaging environmental challenges, exploration, bonding, or playing.
Mental state
By presenting positive situations in the previous domains, the mental state of the animal should benefit from predominantly positive states.
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OUR PROGRESS
Our annual Impact Report details progress made by The Travel Corporation’s family of brands against the 11 goals of our 5-year sustainability strategy How We Tread Right, launched in September, 2020. Learn more >
