Cost at which you Can Enjoy Slum Tourism in Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru
Slum tourism’s popularity in cities like Delhi, Mumbai, and Bengaluru shows no signs of waning, but it's essential to consider its broader implications.
Slum tourism is a hit in Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru. But at what cost?
Though a rather debated phenomenon, slum tourism, where people visit impoverished communities as tourists, has become popular in cities such as Delhi, Mumbai, and Bengaluru. These tours assure the consumers, the tourists, a real experience of how it feels to be poor and struggling in today’s urban India in some factories and migrant’s dwelling. However, slum tourism has its supporters and, at the same time, it raises many ethical and moral issues.
Peculiar attraction of cultural tourism/Slum tourism
Most of the visitors to the slum tourism hence take pride in the fact that they are offered a raw idea of what tourists may not otherwise access in their routine travels. It offers a rather different package to India conventional tourist site giving the visitors a glimpse of the social and economic realities of millions of Indians. In cities such as Mumbai where the Dharavi slum is one of the biggest in Asia such ‘slum tourism’ is promoted as an experience where visitors could see the ‘spirit to survive and thrive’ of the people living in slums. The tours tend to include such components as the ability of inhabitants within the region to make living: recycling, pottery, etc.
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The Ethical Dilemma
Nevertheless, the tourism that focuses on slum has so many ethical issue involved in it. Some critics even have it that it trivializes poverty, that it turns the struggles of the poor into entertainment for the rich tourists. For many cultures there seems to be a blurring of education and exploitation and in question there is no doubt that these types of tours cross the line by presenting the slums as mere spectacles of the Third World and not as home to individuals whose rights are deserve to be respected. Unfortunately, most of the time residents of such areas do not benefit financially from these tours as they get paid little or not at all, thus reasonable people ask and wonder who benefits most from these tours.
Impact on Communities
Apart from the ethical point of view, the practice of slum tourism can impose pragmatic consequences for residents. Tourist flow can interfere with everyday functioning, encroach on privacy, and generate the periphery of the foreign–domestic divide between the tourist and the locals. Furthermore, tourists may aggravate stereotyping and contribute to depriving more elaborated social questions of their depth and simply turning them into a colorful mixture of shocking stories and pictures.
Hyping, slum tourism is still vibrant in cities such as Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru and other parts of developing countries, so much importance should be given on the overall impacts. In as much as such tours may provide a vivid representation of real life urban poverty, they must be conducted in respect to the affected communities.
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