The executive committee for the Phuket and Southern Thailand branch of the SKAL travel professionals organisation has denounced the opening of the Nemo dolphinarium and its planned «dolphin show `, insisting that important educational messages about the conservation of dolphins will inevitably be a lower priority than
entertainment, and that the cruel methods used to hunt dolphins in countries like Japan and Russia — from which wild dolphins would likely be
sourced in order to stock the attraction — did not meet CITES
standards.