There are many community tour initiatives that showcase the wealth of culture and sense of history in the country, and steer clear of aspects that make people’s impoverishment the main attraction, otherwise known as poorism.
In a recent column, Daniel Adidwa, CEO of Tour2.0, identifies four pointers to help differentiate between an authentic community tour and a township tour disguised as a community tour. “It [poorism] means that tourists who go on tours that emphasise poverty and deprivation, are involved in the act of gawking at poor people’s lives without the equal opportunity for poor people to gawk back at theirs,” said Adidwa.
Click here to read the full column on Adidwa’s four points.
