Our campaign escalates pressure on travel company GetYourGuide at a prominent New York City travel event.
In September, World Animal Protection and volunteers demonstrated outside the Skift Global Forum, the flagship global conference on the business of travel. Now, the whole travel industry knows GetYourGuide is still profiting from animal cruelty. Executives from major companies such as Airbnb, Expedia, Google, and Mastercard were all in attendance.
GetYourGuide’s co-founder and COO, Tao Tao, spoke at the conference, and our team was outside the venue with posters, leaflets, and a 5-foot captive elephant collage.
Conference attendees were drawn to our team, letting us know that captive wildlife entertainment should be stopped. They were surprised to learn that GetYourGuide is still connected to animal cruelty. Attendees took our leaflets, promising to hand them directly to Tao Tao or speak with him during the event to ask what was going on. We met friendly faces from Tripadvisor, Viator, and other companies that have worked with World Animal Protection to establish animal-friendly policies.
Ahead of the event, we launched 50 sidewalk decals around Manhattan with the text “GetYourGuide LIED” and a QR code. The lie? Telling the media it removes activities that do not align with its policies, but its policies clearly do not exclude activities involving captive wild animals.
How You Can Help
Help us move GetYourGuide by sending an email to its corporate executives now and urge the company to adopt a public animal-friendly policy and stop profiting from animal exploitation once and for all.