Presentatie Simon Pickup, ABTA, over de Global Guidance for Animals in Tourism tijdens de Groeneveld Conferentie die op 13 juni 2013 plaats vond.

1. Simon Pickup
Sustainable Tourism
Manager ABTA

2. ABTA: Animal Welfare approach in overview
Simon Pickup
Sustainable Tourism Manager
ABTA

3. In this session
1. About ABTA
2. Why we’re working on animal welfare
3. Animal welfare approach and outputs
4. Next steps
5. Questions

4. About ABTA
• Confidence at the heart of travel
• Largest travel association in the UK
• 750 tour operators
• 5000 travel agencies
• Collective turnover = £30billion + /
annually

5. Sustainability approach
• Confidence that the industry is
building a sustainable future
Thriving Destinations
Responsibility in a finite word
Confident Customers
ABTA
Membership
Supply
Chain
Supportive
Destination
Policy
Development
Areas

6. In practice
MEMBERSHIP
PROGRAMMES
SUPPLY CHAIN
DESTINATION
PROGRAMMES
DEVELOPMENT
STC Travelife System Egypt Animal Welfare WG
Cruise Overseas Agents Turkey Human Rights
Communications Thailand Climate Change
SMO Dominican Republic
Volunteer Tourism Lobbying
Retail
Indicators
Training

7. Business case:
1. Increasing in number / popular with consumers
2. Strong tour operator commitments to
sustainability
3. Known history of issues
4. External scrutiny
5. Legal dimension against a global supply chain
Why animal welfare?

8. Business case
Animal attractions are very common in destinations
Commercially - valuable relationships for tour operators
UK consumers – very emotional link with animals
From a sustainability standpoint – poor welfare is unacceptable
SPANA 2012:
52% of consumers advised that seeing an animal being mistreated
abroad would put them off visiting a destination again
Complaints:
2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013*
1 1 5 5 22 29 29 51 35 10

9. The approach
• Working Group on Animal Welfare issues in tourism
• Industry strategy:
1. Understand the scope of our impact
2. Raise awareness of best practice with suppliers,
governments and customers
3. Assess and improve performance
4. Reviewing and reporting on our actions
5. Setting targets for improvements
6. Influencing and encouraging government policy

10. • Starting point – what is out there already?
• What’s needed?
• How does the supply chain currently perform?
• What could progress look like?
• How do we reach the supply chain?
Raising awareness:

11. OUTPUT: 7 GUIDANCE DOCUMENTS
• Global welfare guidance for animals in
tourism
• 5 best practice handbooks:
– Captive animal attractions
– Elephants in captive environments
– Dolphins in captive environments
– Working animals (horses, donkeys, camels)
– Wildlife viewing
- Unacceptable and Discouraged
Practices
- E.g Bear Bile Farms, Photographic Props

13. Key headlines:
• 3 sets of minimum requirements
A. For all instances involving animals in tourism (10
requirements)
B. For suppliers with captive whales and dolphins (9
requirements)
C. For suppliers with working animals
(4 requirements)

14. Unacceptable practices
• These activities divide into three categories and
are listed below:
1. Unacceptable practices involving animals in
captive attractions.
2. Unacceptable practices involving animals in
cultural events and activities.
3. Unacceptable practices involving free-roaming
animals in the wild.
Unacceptable Practices

15. Multi-stakeholder approach

16. Next steps
• Release date: 18th June in Brussels
• Members developing auditing and inspection
processes in line with business practices
• Tracking progress and performance
improvements within the supply chain
• Pilot process over Summer 2013

17. QUESTIONS

18. Thank you