Tag: poverty tourism
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Slumdog Tourism
New York Times: Slumdog Tourism SLUM tourism has a long history — during the late 1800s, lines of wealthy New Yorkers snaked along the Bowery and through the Lower East Side to see “how the other half lives.” But with urban populations in the developing world expanding rapidly, the opportunity and demand to observe poverty…
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Response to MV tourism operator on “Should starving people be tourist attractions?”
Aid Watch (William Easterly): Response to MV tourism operator on “Should starving people be tourist attractions?” … I have considered your letter and these other responses carefully, and I am open to the possibility that I was wrong. In the end, however, I don’t find your responses or others have really addressed my central concern…
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Should starving people be tourist attractions?
Aid Watch: Should starving people be tourist attractions? Senegalese entrepreneur Magatte Wade on the Huffington Post touched a raw nerve about condescension towards Africans. She noted that a tourism operator was marketing one of Jeff Sachs’ Millennium Villages (MVs) as a vacation destination and quoted from the brochure "Please do not give anything to the…