Monday, April 21, 2014

Poverty tourism

"They come here and what interests them is the poverty side of it," he told me. "So they rather have pictures of a boy next to a garbage spot, stranded dog or something like that. That suits them because that's what they're looking for.
"They're not here to say 'take me to my favourite pub' and I show them: this is how our favourite pub looks like."
Most locals say they don't benefit from them. Instead, they feel they are just here to be looked at and pitied."