Expedia is being urged to stop encouraging tourists to visit bullrings.

On its website, the online travel agency tells visitors to Seville that on a tour of the local bullring, they can “feel like a bullfighter entering the arena” and “admire the bullring from the middle of the arena”.

Visitors to the city's Real Maestranza bullring are advised to “book ahead to watch a fight”.

In a page about Ronda, the company states: “Visit one of Spain’s oldest and most-revered bullrings, which has a museum of bullfighting memorabilia and hosts a bullfight during a week-long festival...Visit in early September for the chance to experience live bullfights”

Elsewhere, in a listing for a bullring in Malaga, Expedia describes the cruel assault on bulls as a “contest of speed, agility and endurance between men and animal” and highlights that “bullfights occur regularly between April and September”

In an email to Expedia's CEO Peter Kern, the Irish Council Against Blood Sports complained about the the pro-bullfighting content.

“We are shocked to see pages on your website encouraging people to buy tickets to visit animal cruelty hellholes,” we stated. “One page outlines that those who visit can 'feel like a bullfighter entering the arena' and 'admire the bullring'. This blood-soaked location is where bulls are slowly tortured with lances and spiked spears before being killed with a sword through the heart. Their ears are then cut off, sometimes while they are still alive. Is Expedia happy to profit from this obscene brutality?”

“We implore your company to side with the majority who want bullfighting ended and remove all bullfighting-related content from your website,” we added.

ACTION ALERT

Contact Expedia's CEO and urge him to show compassion and remove all references to bullfighting and bullfighting museums from the company's website.

Peter M. Kern
CEO Expedia
pkern@expedia.com
Twitter: @Expedia 
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/expedia/