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 ...

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 ...

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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A slum in Asalpha, in Mumbai's eastern suburbs, got a colourful makeover through a charity initiative aimed at brightening slums, home to more than half the city's population. Picture courtesy ...