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Slum Tourism: What’s Next?

January 29, 2012

The Standard, a “bold” newspaper in Kenya, has a magazine-style story on slum tourism.

Trash in the slum

Have wealthy tourists had their fill of eco- and extreme vacations, and so now would like to get their travel high from gawking at the poorest of the poor the world has to offer?

Maybe the poverty-viewers will donate to the people living in these slums. But it’s hard to imagine what “taking it to the next level” for them shall bring.

Slums of Nairobi

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