Slum tourism is exactly what it sounds like: you visit the poverty-stricken regions of a country, such as slums or favelas. This type of tourism is controversial, largely because the money made from ...

She's getting accused of 'slum tourism.' Reena Koh. Updated Mon, May 8, 2023 at 5:46 AM UTC. 3 min read. Fiona Wang posted a tearful travel video on Saturday. @heyfionawang/TikTok.

Rolf Glaser zips his motorbike up the twisting alleyways of Vidigal slum, past a bunch of cheerful, gun-packing drug traffickers, and emerges at a cliffside plateau next to some demolished shacks.

It's the de rigeur stop off for caring foreign dignitaries. It reached a worldwide audience as a backdrop to the British blockbuster "The Constant Gardener".

A few years ago I was in Sierra Leone, just a week after Angelina Jolie, in her capacity as Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, had ...

Tourists usually try to run from Rio's notorious slums. Now officials are inviting them to come visit instead. The Santa Marta shantytown on Monday became the first community in a program meant to ...

It’s similar to orphanage tourism and so-called “slum” tourism, in which tourists visit orphanages or “slums” in poor countries to witness poverty and suffering.

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"This is called slum tourism. She's turning poverty and hard work of the people into entertainment, into a spectacle, something that can be momentarily experienced by her, but then she can escape ...