{"id":88,"date":"2007-03-06T05:20:22","date_gmt":"2007-03-06T05:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/miscellaneous\/poorism-tourism-in-dharavi"},"modified":"2007-03-18T03:46:39","modified_gmt":"2007-03-18T03:46:39","slug":"poorism-tourism-in-dharavi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/miscellaneous\/poorism-tourism-in-dharavi","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Poorism&#8221;: Tourism in Dharavi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smithsonianmagazine.com\/issues\/2007\/march\/presence.php\">interesting article<\/a> on a new trend in tourism &#8211; &#8220;Poverty Tourism&#8221;, or &#8220;Poorism&#8221;.  People pay money to get guided tours of slums like Dharavi in Mumbai, or the favelas in Rio de Janeiro.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Since January of last year, a young British entrepreneur, Christopher Way, and his Indian business partner, Krishna Poojari, have been selling walking tours of Dharavi as if it were Jerusalem&#8217;s walled city or the byways of Dickens&#8217; London. There seems to be a market for this sort of thing: almost every day during the recent December holidays, small groups of foreign travelers, accompanied by Poojari or another guide, tramped through Dharavi&#8217;s fetid alleys in a stoic quest for&#8230;What? Enlightenment? Authenticity? The three-hour excursions are slated for mention in a forthcoming Lonely Planet guide, and they cost about $6.75 a head\u00e2\u20ac\u201dmore if you want to go to Dharavi by air-conditioned car.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smithsonianmagazine.com\/issues\/2007\/march\/presence.php\">full article.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting article on a new trend in tourism &#8211; &#8220;Poverty Tourism&#8221;, or &#8220;Poorism&#8221;. People pay money to get guided tours of slums like Dharavi in Mumbai, or the favelas in Rio de Janeiro. Since January of last year, a young British entrepreneur, Christopher Way, and his Indian business partner, Krishna Poojari, have been selling &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/miscellaneous\/poorism-tourism-in-dharavi\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Poorism&#8221;: Tourism in Dharavi<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-miscellaneous"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>&quot;Poorism&quot;: Tourism in Dharavi - Navin Kabra&#039;s Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/miscellaneous\/poorism-tourism-in-dharavi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"&quot;Poorism&quot;: Tourism in Dharavi - Navin Kabra&#039;s Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"An interesting article on a new trend in tourism &#8211; &#8220;Poverty Tourism&#8221;, or &#8220;Poorism&#8221;. 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