In particular, the TUI is criticized by the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Forum (WDSF) because TUI has set itself in the years 2007 and 2008 as a sponsor for the protection of wild dolphins in the UNEP campaign "Year of the Dolphin." At the same time TUI, alltours and other german tour operators such as Jahn-Reisen (REWE Touristik), Schauinsland Travel and Thomas Cook, Neckermann, offering precisely the Dolphinarium in Alanya (Sealanya) as entertainment for the excursion tours, where since 2008 a total of ten dolphins from the Japan's cruel dolphin hunts to keep prisoners from those within a few days now, four marine mammals have died. More dolphinariums in Turkey, and killer whale shows, such as the Loro Park, Tenerife and on death row at Sea World Orlando, Florida are also offered by TUI and other tour operators. Only Oeger Tours told the WDSF in the last week, that they, in accordance with the claim from WDSF,have deleted all dolphinariums Deals in Turkey (see http://www.wdsf.eu/erfolge).
