Slums tourism, also known as
ghetto tourism, is becoming more and more popular. This type of
tourism focuses on visiting very poor areas.
Tourists visit places where
people suffer from poverty, lack of job, high level of crime and
often lack of basic services like electricity or running water.
Slums in Brazil started to be
a holiday destination for visitors, mainly from the United States.
Rich or average Americans come to see how people living in the ghetto
manage to survive.
The guides are usually local
people who tell stories about shootings, gang wars, assaults etc.
Tourists listen with
astonishment and leave a nice tip.
This type of tourism is often
criticised and called immoral but it brings some small profit to
people who live in those poverty zones.
What is your opinion about
slums tourism?
Would you decide to go for
such a trip?
Why do people decide to visit
ghettos?
Can such a trip teach
something?
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