scholarly journals Movilidades transnacionales y la producción académica sobre el turismo de favelas

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 2262
Author(s):  
Bianca Freire-Medeiros ◽  
Camila Maria dos Santos Moraes
Keyword(s):  
Slum Tourism

El turismo de favelas es la expresión local y ejemplar del slum tourism, visita a áreas populares con un guía y pago de un valor específico acordado entre turistas y agentes promotores. Este artículo es un meta-análisis, en el que se discuten los principios orientadores de la producción académica sobre el turismo de favelas. Seleccionamos artículos publicados en revistas académicas, libros (monográficos o compilaciones), y capítulos de libros, escritos en portugués, español e inglés, tesis de maestría y de doctorado realizadas en los programas de posgrado brasileños, en un total de 146 trabajos. Demonstramos que a partir del turismo de favelas se puede abordar un conjunto amplio de temas que, en última instancia, problematiza la tensa relación entre este tipo de asentamientos y el resto de la ciudad.

scholarly journals Slumming on Social Media? E-Mediated Tourist Gaze and Social Representations of Indian, South African, and Brazilian Slum Tourism Destinations

Societies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 106
Author(s):  
Mauro Sarrica ◽  
Isabella Rega ◽  
Alessandro Inversini ◽  
Laura Soledad Norton
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
South African ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Tourist Gaze ◽  
Tourism Experience ◽  
Intercultural Encounters ◽  
Eye Opening ◽  
Slum Tourism ◽  
Tourism Destinations ◽  
The City

Slum tourism is a hotly debated genre of travel. While it may foster intercultural encounters with marginalised “others”, it is also accused of reinforcing stereotypes and exploitation. Both aspects are amplified by the communication through social media of the slum tourism experience, that contribute to challenge or confirm stigmatizing representations of slums and their inhabitants. Based on the theoretical constructs of the tourist gaze and of social representations, this article addresses this particular type of digital contact. A lexicometric approach was used to analyse an extensive corpus of reviews on TripAdvisor (N = 8126). The findings not only confirm common themes already identified by the literature: the eye-opening component of touring poverty and the gatekeeping function of guides; but also show the emergence of context-dependent specificities, such as a hedonistic feature in the Cape Town region; or the integration of favelas within the representations of the city of Rio de Janeiro. Furthermore, the results show the tension between the “othering” and the “sameing” mechanisms, making this tourism practice a space in which shallow and deep tourist gazes interact and co-exist, and are crucially mediated by the gatekeeper of the tours: the guide.

Banalizing the Alterity

2018 ◽  
pp. 190-208
Author(s):  
Maximiliano E. Korstanje ◽  
Lourdes Cisneros Mustelier
Keyword(s):  
Social Institutions ◽  
Dark Tourism ◽  
Lay People ◽  
Slum Tourism

This chapter discusses the problem of poverty as something finely integrated in dark tourism. Though originally, both concepts sound very distant, no less true is that dark tourism and slum tourism are inextricably intertwined. Throughout this chapter review, we placed a hot debate on the role of globalization as a chief agent oriented to connect dissimilar economies into an all-encompassing system. The question whether tourism should be considered ethical or not still remains open. In days of Thana-Capitalism the suffering pivoted as the main commodity not only that helps structuring social institutions, but the necessary mediator between lay-people and their states.

The End of Tourism as We Know It

2019 ◽  
pp. 14-28
Author(s):  
Maximiliano Emanuel Korstanje ◽  
Babu George
Keyword(s):  
Stock Market ◽  
Free Trade ◽  
Western Civilization ◽  
Human Suffering ◽  
Dark Tourism ◽  
New Horizons ◽  
The World ◽  
Interesting Discussion ◽  
Slum Tourism ◽  
Jihadist Terrorism

The present chapter posits an interesting discussion revolving around the term Thana Capitalism, which was originally formulated in earlier works. Originally formulated to serve as an opposite alternative against neo-pragmatism, neoliberalism toyed with the belief that the world can be united through the consumption and free trade. During 80s and 90s decades, the theory of development adopted tourism as an efficient instrument to struggle with poverty. Under the auspices of neoliberalism, modern tourism not only paved the ways for an “Kantian eternal peace,” but also conducted a much deeper process of democratization beyond the borders of Western civilization. After the recent, stock market crisis in 2008, tourism not only was placed in jeopardy by the advance of jihadist terrorism but mutated towards more morbid forms of consumption, which made from human suffering as a tantalizing criterion of attraction. Thana-Tourism, War tourism, Dark Tourism or slum tourism are indicators that the society is changing towards new horizons.

Poverty as a Tourism Attraction

2016 ◽  
pp. 23-40
Author(s):  
Donatella Privitera
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Web Site ◽  
Strategic Choices ◽  
Tourist Destination ◽  
Global Circulation ◽  
Slum Tourism ◽  
Online Activities ◽  
Tourist Behaviour ◽  
The Web

The visit of the favela or slum into a tourist destination is seen as a part of the so-called reality tours phenomenon and of the global circulation of the favela as a trademark. Tourist behaviour involves a search for leisure experiences from interactions with features or characteristics of places they choose to visit. Examples are the favelas in Brazil, the township of South Africa, the slum in India that have led to different definitions of “slum tourism”, “poor-poor tourism”, “reality tourism”. Web heavily affect today most of the online activities and their effect on tourism is obviously rather important. The aim of the chapter is to discuss about slum tourism definitions. At the same time, taking Reality Tours and Travel - a wholesaler slum websites - as a case, this study attempts to explore issues of the quality of strategic choices on the web. Considering that the content of web site includes a wide variety of technologies, is important that website offer also interactivity with e-tourists. Through the results of the study, it is possible to gain knowledge of the slum e-tourism.

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