World’s Largest Cruise Line Drops Exploitative Elephant Excursions

After hearing from PETA and over 40,000 supporters, Carnival Corporation no longer offers excursions to facilities that exploit elephants for riding, bathing, feeding, or other direct-contact activities. This decision will apply across Carnival Corporation’s brands, including Carnival Cruise Line, Princess Cruises, Holland America Line, Seabourn, P&O Cruises, Costa Cruises, AIDA Cruises, P&O Cruises, and Cunard. It joins over 50 other compassionate travel brands—including Airbnb, Expedia, Booking.com, Tripadvisor, and Royal Caribbean—in rejecting this cruelty. As major corporations around the world reject the physical and psychological abuse used to force elephants into unnatural interactions with humans, PETA invites everyone to help urge the Tourism Authority of Thailand to ban elephant rides at all tourist sites.