Poverty Tourism …

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Is poverty tourism—”poorism,” they call it—exploration or exploitation?

“It is a vision of urban hell. It is also one of India’s newest tourist attractions.”

An interesting article in the Smithsonian Mag by John Lancaster

 

 

 

 

 

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Posted by Chopi

Written on 07/9/07 6:42 AM , India, Motherlode, Feed: RSS 2.0

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