Poverty Tours - Slum Visits: Tourism or Voyeurism?First Faved : Mar 11 2008 by misaacsFaved : 3 times (2 with notes)Viewed : 8 timesFave It!
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- onlymaureen - Mar 12 2008 | travel, point of view
Quoted: Some visitors are trading museums and monuments for shantytowns and garbage heaps. But critics say these tours are exploitative.
Quoted: Slum tourism, or “poorism,” as some call it, is catching on. From the favelas of Rio de Janeiro to the townships of Johannesburg to the garbage dumps of Mexico, tourists are forsaking, at least for a while, beaches and museums for crowded, dirty — and in many ways surprising — slums.
- tenzin - Mar 13 2008
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