{"id":3660,"date":"2015-08-13T18:56:38","date_gmt":"2015-08-13T15:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tourism.plus4d.com\/2015\/08\/13\/skal-slams-phuket-dolphinarium-plan\/"},"modified":"2015-08-13T18:56:38","modified_gmt":"2015-08-13T15:56:38","slug":"skal-slams-phuket-dolphinarium-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/?p=3660","title":{"rendered":"Skal slams Phuket dolphinarium plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"direction: ltr; margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif; font-size: 0.938em; line-height: 1.5; padding-left: 1.25em; padding-right: 1.25em; color: #222222; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 900; font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"color: #df1e26;\">Skal International<\/span>&nbsp;has strongly criticised plans to open a dolphinarium in&nbsp;<span style=\"color: #df1e26;\">Phuket<\/span>, calling the proposed attraction an \u201coutrage\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr; margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif; font-size: 0.938em; line-height: 1.5; padding-left: 1.25em; padding-right: 1.25em; color: #222222; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The tourism industry body\u2019s Phuket and Southern Thailand chapter has called on its members and the broader travel industry to protest against the project, saying that any educational aims the attraction may have would be outweighed by \u201ccircus-style performances\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-223853 size-full wp-image-3659\" style=\"vertical-align: middle;\" src=\"http:\/\/tourism.plus4d.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/www.traveldailymedia.com_assets_2015_07_shutterstock_176260091-300x221.jpg\" alt=\"Skal warns that the attraction will focus on &quot;circus-style performances&quot;\" width=\"300\" height=\"221\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Skal warns that the attraction will focus on \u201ccircus-style performances\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr; margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif; font-size: 0.938em; line-height: 1.5; padding-left: 1.25em; padding-right: 1.25em; color: #222222; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cDolphins are highly intelligent, free-ranging carnivores who suffer greatly from the effects of confinement and as a result suffer from stress, breeding problems and premature death as well as behavioural problems that can result in aggression between themselves and towards humans,\u201d Skal said in a statement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr; margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif; font-size: 0.938em; line-height: 1.5; padding-left: 1.25em; padding-right: 1.25em; color: #222222; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">It added that the capture of wild dolphins, which occurs in Japan, Russia, the Solomon Islands and Cuba, is a \u201cserious concern to the scientific community\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr; margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif; font-size: 0.938em; line-height: 1.5; padding-left: 1.25em; padding-right: 1.25em; color: #222222; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cIn Japan\u2026 dolphins are driven to the cost, a particularly cruel form of hunting in which pods of dolphins are rounded up out at sea and driven towards the shore where some are selected for aquariums and the rest slaughtered for meat,\u201d it said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr; margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif; font-size: 0.938em; line-height: 1.5; padding-left: 1.25em; padding-right: 1.25em; color: #222222; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Skal added that imports of dolphins into the European Union are prohibited under EU legislation for primarily commercial purposes. A dolphinarium displaying animals to the public and charging an admission fee, would constitute a commercial purpose.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr; margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif; font-size: 0.938em; line-height: 1.5; padding-left: 1.25em; padding-right: 1.25em; color: #222222; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThis is an outrage and an unnecessary attraction for Phuket, tourists come for the beauty that is Thailand, a country rich in natural biodiversity and by allowing this project to happen, Phuket is taking a step backwards,\u201d Skal commented.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skal International&nbsp;has strongly criticised plans to open a dolphinarium in&nbsp;Phuket, calling the proposed attraction an \u201coutrage\u201d. The tourism industry body\u2019s Phuket and Southern Thailand chapter has called on its members and the broader travel industry to protest against the project, saying that any educational aims the attraction may have would be outweighed by \u201ccircus-style performances\u201d. 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