Slum tourism is a globalizing trend and a controversial form of tourism. Impoverished urban areas have always enticed the popular imagination, considered to be

This multidisciplinary collection is unique both in its conceptual and empirical breadth.

Each year, approximately a million tourists visit slum areas on guided tours as a part of their holiday to Asia, Africa or Latin America. This book analyses the

Have slums become 'cool'? More and more tourists from across the globe seem to think so as they discover favelas, ghettos, townships and barrios on leisurely vi

Essay from the year 2013 in the subject Tourism - Miscellaneous, grade: ''none'', Kenya Methodist University, course: Impact of slum tourism to slum's nature an