What is disadvantages of slum tourism in more than 100 words
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Slum tours treat people like animals in a zoo - you stare from the outside but don't dare get too close.
Visitors aren't interested in meaningful interaction; they just want their photo op. Contact with locals is minimal.
Money rarely trickles down. Instead, operators fill their pockets but the vaunted 'benefits to the community' don't materialize. Slum tourism profits from poverty.
People feel degraded by being stared at doing mundane things - washing, cleaning up, preparing food, things that are private. Their rights to privacy may be violated. Imagine yourself at the receiving end: how would you feel?
Even when they participate as hosts, local people are often underpaid and exploited.
The image of a country may be tarnished by publicizing slums (this is an actual concern among certain segments of certain populations - usually the more wealthy).
The tours make poverty exotic, otherworldly, almost glamorizing what to inhabitants is a harsh reality which will remain once the tourists are long gone.