Travel companies are a soft target for the animal rights industry. They obviously want to give the impression to their clients that they are caring organisation but this can lead to an erroneous view as to the actual reality particularly when it involves science and animal welfare. A case in point is the ban defunct Thomas Cook travel company and Richard Branson's Virgin holidays which decided on the information from the animal rights industry to stop promoting zoos and marine parks that display marine mammals such as dolphins.
Now, TripAdvisor seems to be the latest organisation to adopt this position.
Below I reproduce a comment from the marine mammal scientist Dr Jason Bruck regarding this matter.